Marty Wallace <martywallace@rocketmail.com> wrote:

> I read somewhere that the incidence of engine fires in water-cooled
VWs
> is much, much lower (like <10% or even <1%) than the rate in
air-cooled

Does this mean that air cooled vanagons have a significantly higher
engine fire rate?

If so does this mean that I should pass on the nicely restored and
overhauled-with-new-fuel-lines air-cooled that I've been looking at
because it's a fire trap?

Is there anything besides periodically replacing fuel lines and
carrying a fire extinguisher that I should do?

thanks,
mac

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