Diito .
Yeah man, there has never been any doubt about your ( Jim Akiba's  )
committment to excellent vanagon conversions or your brilliance in that
department etc. etc.
Hope you are not thinking I think anything less that that Jim.

heck ...come on man, who else has made a standardised pure plug n' play
vanagon engine conversion  ?
Nobody, that's who.
I wrote over two years ago that you, Jim,  have taken vanagon engine
conversions to a whole new level.

Scott
www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger VanTill" <motelvw@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:19 AM
Subject: Re: Leaking Torque Converter Seal

> Jim, I'm not alone when I say thank you for all the in depth research,
> development, and problem solving you guys do for the Vanagon community.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Jim Akiba <syncrolist@bostig.com> wrote:
>
>>  The more we find out the more we're seeing that there is a rather
>> substantial problem of late with poorly rebuilt torque converters in
>> vanagonland(and one of the very first symptoms to pop up is a leaking
>> TC seal). The upshot of having publicized it was a lot of people we
>> never would have heard from otherwise came forward from all over the
>> country and contacted us(which we really appreciate and encourage)
>> with identical failures and stories but different engines. We've now
>> collected information on failed converters from several of the same
>> vendors, across engines(wbx, tiico, gowesty).  I'm still compiling the
>> info, and I still have to talk to a couple more vendors that
>> buy/install rebuilt transmissions/converters, but I've already spoken
>> with enough trusted and well known folks to have a pretty good handle
>> on it. I think we've ID'd two high failure rate converter companies to
>> stay away from, but I'm not ready to release what I've found until I'm
>> really certain and convinced it makes sense to do so, since it will
>> materially affect the business of these places.  In the meantime
>> though Scott, I'd appreciate, and I'm sure the other guys here at
>> Bostig would appreciate a bit more accuracy and care in your
>> statements to the list about the nature of problems you are
>> representing for us.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jim Akiba
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
>> <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:
>> > be glad you don't have a Zetec in there.
>> > they are running into 'unfixable' oil leak issues with auto trans and
>> Ford
>> > Zetec engine recently.
>>