but Jim............
this shouldn't be a surprise really .......
they are after all 'just volkswagons.'

I have seen about a million idiviudally different failure modes on VW
engines over the years,
and I'll bet we'lkl see hundreds more types of failures, all ones we've
never seen before.

I happen to have a couple of pre-chambers out of an 80's era Mercedes
dieesel engine ......
the part looks at least 5 times better made and more expensvie than the
equivilant VW part.
Many vw engine parts are made 'just good enough' and not over-built at all,
looks to me.
Cheap to get, cheap to fix.  What's not to like ! ? !

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Arnott" <jrasite@EONI.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Saturday, June 06, 2009 2:22 PM
Subject: Why Folly left Lisa at the side of the road

>I have not seen this failure before:
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/jr.arnott/DistributorDrive1?pli=1#
>
> Replaced it and Folly* runs again. For how long, who knows....
>
> Jim
>
> * '84 1.9 Adventurewagen