Joe, welcome to the list!  I am Ken Wilford and I run Van-Again
(www.vanagain.com).  If you need any advice or parts, please feel free
to email or call me.  I look forward to helping you get your van back on
the road.  I have a 2.0l engine sitting here on the floor at the moment
so if you want some pictures to see what it is supposed to look like
once it is back together I can do that for you.  Also you want the
Bentley manual when you are looking.  Big, green, you can't miss it

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Thanks,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com
Phone: 856-327-4936
Fax: 856-327-2242

On 2/4/2011 12:53 PM, Joe Luther wrote:
> Hey everybody -
>
> I just picked up an 83 Vanagon that is very clean and original but has two
> 2.0 FI gas engines in pieces (one with 87k and a bad head and a replacement
> with 60k torn down for inspection).  Also have a few tubs of various spares
> from the PO tearing down another Vanagon in a yard somewhere.  The last air
> cooled engine I had apart was a 1600 dual port back before my kids were born
> (1993) so it will be a bit of a learning curve.  I should have a line on a
> Bentley manual so hopefully that will make things a little easier.  I've
> always liked vanagons but rarely see any decent examples here in the salt
> belt of SW Ohio.
>
> I can post up a link to the CL ad for my Vanagon if anyone is interested.
>
> I've had over 100 cars and trucks of various kinds, mostly Volvos and
> watercooled VWs with some aircooled VW's and 60's Chevy trucks etc sprinkled
> in.  Currently have a 99 Subaru Forester (preparing to gack another head
> gasket), a 97 Volvo 855, a 93 Volvo 945, and a 92 Dodge Cummins TD truck
> (with half the roof cut off for rust repair).
>
> I will no doubt have plenty of entertaining questions as we go along but
> I'll try not to ask them twice.
>
> Joe
>