Alas i can not claim same engine --
OEM was 1.6 turbo ...
replaced with 1.9 turbo 1 year ago
poor timing of maintenance was to blame --
i was on my way to go westy to but the parts in person and maybe even let
them put them on --
sigh ... should woulda coulda
70 k to next timing belt change
yours

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Craig Luke <cluke.aspire@gmail.com> wrote:

> 200?  Just a youngster!  'specially for a diesel.  My '91 gasser just
> turned
> 340,000 KM.  He's my daily driver, and I put 10,000 Km on him in the first
> month that I had him (last fall) by driving from BC to Ontario and back.
> Weird how we keep track of the landmarks with our vans, or even the little
> things.  I think they're more a part of our lives that other cars/inanimate
> objects/wives (oops, did I say that?).
>
> Happy birthday!
>
> Craig & Toaster
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Dear fellow Vanagonagians and other westie types
> >
> > In about 3/4 of a kilometer our wonderful 1989 Westfalia California 5
> speed
> > turbo Diesel turns 200, 000
> > *cue loud cheers*
> >
> > to celebrate we are going for a short run to Campbell River on Vancouver
> > Island --
> > tomorrow we begin -- returning to Powell River sometime on Thursday --
> >
> > this is not the first time i have \owned a vehicle that passed 200K KM
> > it is though the first one i have wanted to keep to 300 :)
> > yours
> >
> > --
> > roger w
> > From Proverbs:
> > Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
> > servant who becomes king ...
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
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> >
>

--
roger w
From Proverbs:
Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
servant who becomes king ...
----------------------------------------------------------
Explore printed work at: http://www.prliving.ca/
View the growing list of video work at:
http://revver.com/find/video/?query=LastonLastof&search_on=owners
and ... older work at
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7135104650374818257
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3259745150182742364