>It does sound like GEX is cutting corners...but if my memory serves from
>my old
>'72 westy isn't 60K about all you can expect from the aluminum aircooled
>motors
>hauling around a big bus?  I'm not too up on the vanagon air-cooleds, were
>they
>longer lived than the older bay windows?
>mark

The '72 up bus (and vanagon, they're all VERY similar) were much better
than the 71 down engines in terms of longevity. You can expect a type IV
motor (as they're known) to last at least 100K, and 150K isn't all that
uncommon. Type I engines were known to last about 60K in a bus.

I'd expect that the vanagon and fuel injected buses ('75 up, and 74 ca
models with auto tranny, perhaps others?) gained some longevity from the
fuel injection, but there were problems with the 2.0 liter bus and vanagon
engines dropping valve seats, and getting cracks in the exhaust port area.

Joshua Van Tol -- jjvantol@lear.csp.ee.memphis.edu