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Subject:Re: Complete 1.9 for sale - Best Offer
From:vw4x4
Date:Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:32:47 -0500

Mark A. Kreuzer wrote:

>I just got the Bostig Zetec engine installed last week.  I'm flying to
>Boston to get my Van and drive it back to Dallas on 3/20.
>
>Mark,
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    Please give us a report to the list as to your drive home....
                                         Thanks    Joe

>That means I have a complete 1.9 available.  Very complete, all peripherals
>including the exhaust.
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>Here are the facts:
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>Engine has 150,000 miles on it.  It leaves about a teaspoon of coolant my
>garage floor after sitting.  Previous owner did not run the phosphate free
>coolant.
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>It is leaking about a teaspoon of oil on the right and left sides.  Both
>previous owner and I have run the 20w50 oil.
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>Has a little lifter knock on one side.  I tried to run straight 30 for a few
>hundred miles to get the lifter working better and it helped a little.
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>Does not blow any oil.
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>Compression test = #1 105-110  #2 135-140  #3 110  #4 105.
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>I am willing to drop off the engine along the east coast, or in the south,
>as I drive back to texas.  Not looking to get a lot out of it.  I'm more
>interested in keeping the parts in food chain.
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>-- mark
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