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Subject:Re: What's a Joker?
Date:Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:36:42 -0500

on 7/15/05 1:01 PM, Jim Felder at felder@KNOLOGY.NET wrote:

> An 85 westy, said by the garage who is representing the owner in the
> sale to be a Joker, full westy package with diesel engine as original
> equipment. There have been a couple of unfortunate mods such as a fuel
> tank in the closet, etc. but it starts and runs well but runs hot on
> long highway hauls. They replaced the water pump and did a couple of
> other things to remedy the running hot, but none of those things
> worked. Asking price on the car is $2000.

Running hot on a VW Diesel is usually the first sign of a head gasket leak.

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