How about 'Oil It Scott'?   He's down near Ashland and does the work.
Maybe he'll chime in here, though I think maybe he's about to give up on
Vanagons...or so there've been hints lately about sailboats  etc...

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Andrew R. <a.richar@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> A friend did a subaru swap and said he'd give me his 2.1 with a bad head
> gasket for a case of beer.  Supposedly rebuilt about 70-90k by PO, but no
> paperwork.  Mine has 175k on the block w/ 50k on the heads.  Figured it
> could be a good winter project to rebuild the free motor, but leave the
> heavy lifting to a local pro.  Anyone have good experiences in Portland, OR
> getting their block rebuilt?  I was intending to tear off all the
> accessories, clean it up, and order heads from Go Westy and then hand it
> off to somebody to rebuild.  Was considering doing a leak-down on the motor
> before rebuilding.  Maybe swapping the heads will be enough.  My regular
> shop just gets motors from Go Westy when they have customers needing
> rebuilds.
>
> Aside from a shop recommendation, I wanted to get people's thoughts on how
> to go about this too.
>
> thanks,
> Andrew
> '87 GL
>