This OP is Mid Atlantic on the Chesapeake Bay, USA, North America.

Due to the leaky oil pan on my Yellow Sub 82' Vanagon diesel na camper,
 we will be attending "Buses by the Depot"  in PA in the new car  ~~ 1993
MercBenz 300D 2.5Turbodiesel

Thanks again for everyone's responses and guidance.  I'm having the
professionally pan welded.

Frank

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> I'd be cautious right off the bat about used parts from germany.
>
> some I've seen have been very rusted and corroded, and pure hack work on
> how
> they were removed from the cars and vans they came from.
>
> maybe this guy is different . I sure hope so !
> actually ..
> I haven't gotten 'that many' parts for vanagons from germany  or Europe. ..
> but all the ones I have seen ...........had things wrong with them.  Every
> last one come to think of it.
>
> And evidently it's a very harsh environment there for cars.
> I've seen, for example.........a gas vanagon 5 speed trans so badly
> corroded
> the ears to mount the shift linage on  were broken and corroded off.
> Same for the last AAZ engine I worked on that came from Europe.
> pathetically rusted and not maintained at all.  Had to re-do the entire
> engine, down to the bare block.
>
> Be careful is what I'm saying.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "neil n" <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:35 PM
> Subject: Re: Pan
>
>
> And if not them, IIRC, this guy has a good rep and parts:
>
>
> http://vanagon.eu/
>
>
> Neil.
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Vw classics has them brand new . Saw it last night.
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Neil n
>
> 65 kb image Myford Ready For Assembly http://tinyurl.com/64sx4rp
>
> '81 VanaJetta 2.0 "Jaco" http://tubaneil.googlepages.**com/<http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/>
>
> Vanagon VAG Gas I4/VR Swap Google Group:
>
> http://groups.google.com/**group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-**
> 4-cylinder-gas-engines<http://groups.google.com/group/vanagons-with-vw-inline-4-cylinder-gas-engines>
>