I have no idea what happened to the original engine that required a
replacement and resulted in the Canadian engine being installed. All
that happened before I bought the vehicle. From the time I bought it
with 86,000 on it, I ran it about 10,000 miles. before ti failed. It
burned a hole in a piston while traveling on I-40 near Clinton OK. Since
it was a strange engine to me, with low mileage - to me_ I opted to have
a locally built newly overhauled engine installed. I have 60,000 on that
engine now and it is running srong.

John Rodgers
88 GL driver

Dennis Haynes wrote:

>I think you need to figure out what was really wrong. FUNBUS, "87
>Syncro, 223K, not only original engine, but also the head gaskets. Still
>capable of going on trips.
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>Dennis
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>Of John Rodgers
>Sent: Monday, June 13, 2005 6:51 PM
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>Subject: Re: 2.1 in a 1.9?
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>My 85 GL with 1.9L engine  --- 205,000 miles with only a failed water
>pump near the 200,000 mark.
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>My 88 GL with 2.1L engine -  0 to 96,000 miles - three new engines. 1)
>Original engine, 2) VW of Canada Remanufactured Engine, 3) Local
>Rebuild.
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>Your call!!
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>I liked the way that 1.9L performed. Bottom end of both engines is
>hell-for-stout!~
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>John Rodgers
>88 GL
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>Benny boy wrote:
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>>Gentlemen's...and Ladie's...or just Ladie's...he he he he..
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>>I have what would sound a stupid question! i have a customer who
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>>so i guess you know my question... (Am kind of still pretty hang over
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>>my extremly nice weekend at Busfusion hi hi hi)
>>i don't see any problem(S) using that engine with every 1.9L
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>>Thanks for any advices..
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>>Regards, Ben
>>http://www.benplace.com/
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