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Subject:Re: Buying a 1986 Vanagon - My $0.02 Worth
From:Marty Wallace
Date:Mon, 14 Sep 1998 21:25:58 -0700

Yikes!  I stand corrected.  Thanks, Mark.

(seems that I had read about the "new" engine in 1986 SOMEwhere, but I
sure  can't locate it now - sounds like the information was incorrect
anyway...)

-Marty Wallace

---Mark McCulley <raven@halcyon.com> wrote:
> Marty Wallace wrote:
> >In 1986 VW came out with a completely
> >re-designed engine (water-cooled design from start
> This is not true. The 2.1 engine introduced in 1986 was not completely
> redesigned and not a water-cooled design from the start. The 2.1
improved on
> the 1.9 by adding more displacement, a different fuel injection system
and
> better routing of coolant hoses in the engine compartment.
> MM

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