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Subject:Re: "Extraordinarily bad engines"
From:Peter Zendzian
Date:Sat, 28 Mar 1998 20:44:53 -1000

Only made it 79,000 the got a cracked head.  Bought it from the po that way.

Pete
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83.5 Vanagon
>Maybe someone could organize a list survey.  Use 100,000 miles as an
>acceptable engine lifespan.  Lets see how many wb's have made it past 100k
>w/o headgaskets.  The results would be interesting.  Personally, if I could
>get 170k out of a rebuilt wb, I certainly wouldn't be screwing around with
>engine swaps.