I've certainly seen some blown diesel ones ..
generally I regard the gold sticker 'rebuilt in Canada for VW of
America' to be a red flag .

I am successfully operating a 2.1 wbxr right now with one of those tags
on it, fwiw.

On 4/20/2012 1:50 PM, neil n wrote:
> Yah scary indeed. I be a lot of these engines are long gone though.
> Still this post from Mark Drillock is interesting and something I'd
> possibly heed if need be:
>
> http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0006A&L=vanagon&P=R19735
>
> granted that was way back in '02.  IF subsequent remans built by
> Cummins were any good, my conjecture and questions may be moot.
>
> Neil.
>
>
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> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans
> <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>  wrote:
>
>> very interesting.
>> thanks for posting this.
>> the Boston Bob stories are scary . ..how 'off' somethings that are supposed
>> to be right can be.
>>
>> On 4/20/2012 10:21 AM, neil n wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have an approximate time line of when this happened?
>>
>> It was interesting to get some insight via the archives. Here's a post
>> from the esteemed Bob Donalds (may he RIP):
>>
>> http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0410A&L=vanagon&P=R3349&m=188659
>>
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