Who did the original rebuild?
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Tom Young                       '81 Vanagon
Lafayette, CA 94549         '82 Westfalia
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Marc Perdue" <marcperdue@ADELPHIA.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 1:12 PM
Subject: Blown engine: Update

> Well, it's pretty much as I expected.  The dealership called me back and
> said that the first thing they checked was to see if there was any oil
> in it.  I had 6 people, here and elsewhere, ask me that very same
> question when I told them what happened.  There was actually oil in the
> engine.  They also said that, had there not been oil in it, the engine
> would have more likely seized than thrown a rod.  They said that the
> connecting rod bolts had sheered off and that had caused the thrown
> rod.  He told me that their service manager had gone out and looked at
> it and that's what he said to tell me.  He also said, and I was
> expecting this, that it's not surprising that an engine with almost
> 148,000 miles would do this.  He was of course somewhat surprised when I
> told him that this engine had been put in at 111,000 miles, but said
> that whoever had done the engine before had probably not replaced the
> connecting rod bolts.  I told him that I'd likely be talking to his
> service manager about this but to go ahead and get prices for me.
>
> I'm not through pursuing things on this end, but I'm not too optimistic
> at this point.
>
> Sigh . . .
> Marc Perdue
>
> PS--I'm in Crozet, near Charlottesville, Virginia, if you know of a
> really great engine in the area . . . or a good lawyer . . .  ;^)