I've heard that Northwest Connecting Rod company in Seattle area is about
the best around for VW, Porsche.
They're not internet folks. Get their phone from information.

Stan Wilder
www.engineceramics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Young" <tomyoung1@COMCAST.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 3:30 PM
Subject: SF East Bay Machine Shops?

> Hi all:
>
> I pulled the head off of one of my vehicles due to somewhat low
compression
> on that side and notice that one of the spigots (head/barrel interface)
has
> an irregular wear point.  Otherwise the head looks to be in pretty good
> shape.  I'd say this head needs a compression cut here to clean things up.
>
> Anybody in the SF East Bay area do good work on TypeIV heads?
>
> TIA.
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> Tom Young                       '81 Vanagon
> Lafayette, CA 94549         '82 Westfalia
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