Robert Fisher typed:

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> In all seriousness I wonder if wouldn't be simpler to take
> an engine to the van and swap 'em out. Get a ride to one place or the
> other,
> rent a truck, buy an engine and go back. It'd be cheaper.
Robert, if I am reading this correctly, that you would drive an engine
out to your Vanagon which is sitting on some dirt road in the middle of
nowhere and swap in a replacement engine, then I am mightily impressed.
If it was an aircooled engine, then I reckon it might be possible for
even me to do it -- barely -- if I was lucky enough to have all the
needed tools at hand and had a helper (at least for my '71 -- the engine
never goes in easily because of that stupid mustache bar) . But if you
could do that with a WBX engine, my hat is off to you. Your skillset,
the collection of tools you pack, and your confidence far exceed mine.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano
KG6RCR