Madeline-
It seems that my flippant answer to your question side-tracked a
discussion that ought to take place. I apologize for that. As I said, my
van is in a similar situation with a head leak. But in addition, mine
also a number of other serious and expensive to solve problems. Not
knowing your situation, I hesitate to offer any advice. There are people
on the list much more experienced and knowledgeable who can do that. If
the only problem that my van was experiencing right now was the head
leak, I would go for option #1, especially since you mention that you
already have $7000 invested in it. But, I'll be curious to hear what
others have to say.
Chuck Anderson
'86 GL

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of Anderson,Chuck
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 4:48 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: FW: The ole head dilema

Choose door #4 before you get in any deeper than you already are. That's
what I'm about to do.
Chuck Anderson
'86 GL

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of mad madeline
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 8:21 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: The ole head dilema

Well....
  Its time to do something with our trusty engine since the right side
is crying tears of antifreeze.  The way I see it I have 4 choices:
  1.  pay $2K to have a head job done
  2.  pay $4K to buy a factory rebuild and pay to have it installed
  3.  pay $6-10K to switch to another type of engine
  4.  loose $7K by driving it off a cliff

  All things considered (including , and crossing my fingers, I'm about
to have Doug's Bugs in Mesa implement choice #1.  I think it should last
quite some time this way since the bottom end of the engine seems just
fine.  Last minute thoughts??  Madeline

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