Jeff & Jean-Marie Diebolt offered a document discussing water cooled Vanagon 
problems.  I'd like to see it.  Is there any way to get it on the WWW?
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> From: Jeff & Jean-Marie Diebolt <jdiebolt@up.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu>
> Subject: Drivability Problems
> Date: Tuesday, October 08, 1996 11:35 PM
>
> Hi to all the Vanagon readers,
>       I've been reading some of the problems being discussed here and
offered
a
> few solutions for some that I was aware of. I spent 12 years working at a
> VW dealer only to move on to a new career about 5 years ago. I own a 1982
> Vanagon diesel and love it. Don't like working on it any more though.
Just
> got done replacing the valves, the timing belt broke, I consider myself
> lucky. The reason I am writing today is to tell you all about a VW
service
> communique that I was able to get from a friend still at the dealership.
It
> deals with drivability problems with water cooled Vanagons. Intermitent
> missing, cutting out, stalling, etc.. I know that allot of the fixes are
> quite expensive, and may not even work as well as some of the ones
> mentioned on this list. I left the dealership before this document came
out
> so I cannot personally vouch for the repairs. I really don't like making
> suggestions from information provided by other people without trying it
out
> for myself. I figure there may be some of you out there that would try
some
> of the items since there are so many reoccurring problems. (i.e. replace
> ECU and air flow sensor and problem comes back) I was told that this
> information is not to be let out to everybody in its original form. So I
> have condensed the information from 12 pages to 5. Four pages are in Word
> format and the fifth page is a test sheet in Excel format. I do not want
to
> flood people with unwanted or unnecessary mail, and I do not know what is
> in the digests. I will happily send the information to anyone who wants
it.
> If enough people request it I will post the five pages.
>       Another quick note. While ordering the parts for my diesel from a
supplier
> that I used to deal with. I asked him if his company does any retail
> business. He said yes so I asked if they stock the water cooled Vanagon
> exhaust parts, they do. I've bought exhaust for my diesel from them and
was
> pleased with both quality and price. The company is New Brighton Imports
> 1-800-621-5125 ask or Bobby.
> Jeff & Jean-Marie Diebolt --- Greetings from Michigan's Upper Peninsula
> e-mail:<jdiebolt@up.net>
> fax:(906)359-4517
>