In a message dated 10/01/2005 12:07:00 AM Eastern Standard Time,
LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM writes:

I agree  that the W7DTC is a bit longer, but I have been running them for
years on my  Vanagons as well as any Vanagon I have worked on.  So while they are
 longer, I do not think they are too long to the point that the piston will
hit  them.

Another weird story !  I have been using  the W7DTC in my '87 Westy for well
over five years, maybe longer, I'm not about  to do a search on that trivia,
and all of my customers vans with 1.9 & 2.1  engines have them.  I have never
seen one single problem with these  plugs.  Well, not true, I just remembered
the story of a customer who  installed them himself and over tightened them,
breaking the bond between the  porcelain and the metal base and could not find
the bad engine running problem  until changing the plugs.  The engines run
better and the plugs last longer  than any others I have tried.  So where is the
problem with them being too  long ?  Maybe the engines you have on Long Island
are different then the  ones I see up here in Ontario.

Cheers,

Frank  Condelli
Almonte, Ontario, Canada
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camping event, Almonte, ON, June 09 ~ 12, 2005
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