11:00 pm and time for a margarita... Passenger side head is on as well as
water pump and assorted connections.  Have to sand the JB Weld a bit on the
drivers side engine case tomorrow morning before I put the other head on.
All is looking good... Got some parts in today from Vanagain.com (thanks
Ken) but noticed that the muffler bracket is just one half of the circlular
metal thingy that holds the muffler in place (in two different places).  I
don't remember seeing anything else on the Vanagain website for exhaust
brackets, so what have others done when the other half (the half that bolts
onto the body) has rusted away enough that there is no way to join the two
muffler brackets together???

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Dan Erlandson
Flemington, NJ
> danoer1@eclipse.net
91 VW Vanagon GL 170,000 mi
99 VW Passat 107,000 mi

Interesting side note that as I was working on the Van in my gravel driveway
(close to the road) today a bicyclist stopped and asked if I was doing a
head job!  Turns out he lives in the next town over and used to own a
Vanagon... now owns a Karman Ghia and knew exactly what I was doing.  I
guess it is somewhat obvious what with the tarp over the back hatch door to
keep out the rain and the halogen flood light burning until 11 pm and the
strewed tools on the plastic drop cloth...