Jbrush wrote:

>>If I could get past the phobia of the dropped valve seat that has been
threatened many times here, I would certainly sleep better :-)<<

Although I drove my 81 Air-cooled Westy more than 200,000 miles over 13
years I was only stranded once. Yep, you guessed it.  It dropped a valve
seat while I was on vacation in Moab, Utah.  It happens.  I don't know what
I would have done without Tom Arnold at Tom-Tom's Volkswagen Museum (junk
yard).

(I remember being told by Leonard at AVP that on his rebuilds he strengthens
the valve seat.  I never had a problem after I installed the AVP engine.)

Warren Lail

88 Westy "Billy Bones"

I accidentally came across this bit of trivia we all ought to appreciate it:
If you go to the Encarta Dictionary of the English Language and type in VW
it comes back as "abbreviation of very worshipful."