Just to follow up and for the sake of the archives, I ended up
purchasing two books:

1. HOW TO KEEP YOUR VOLKSWAGEN ALIVE
2. FIXING CARS, A PEOPLES PRIMER

The second I totally love so far, it was written in the early 70's by
a group of self taught mechanics in San Francisco, I've been told it's
not that easy to come by but if you can get your hands on a copy it's
well worth it.

Cheers.

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 22:15:48 -0700, Peter Linsley
<peter.linsley@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a novice at auto repair and I'm looking for a good book about the
> subject, the more pertinent to the vanagon engine (2.1) the better but
> a good generic book would be just as welcome.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers.
>