In a message dated 11/17/98 9:13:25 PM, mgajewski@MANVILLERUBBER.COM wrote:

<<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>>

Sorry, but this isn't quite true.  Properly maintained, you can expect well
over 100,000 miles, and there are listmembers out there with over 200,000.

There is no reason a rebuild shouldn't last as long as a new engine would.  No
doubt that GEX build engines that are only designed to last a day or two
longer than the warranty.  They cut the corners and take the risk.  GEX can
always blame you later on or claim your engine overheated.

I only had to rebuild my brand new GEX engine 3 times, and I now have about
15k on the latest rebuild.  I consider myself lucky to have gotten that many
miles.

60k?  now that's living on borrowed time with a GEX.

Steve
'74 Campmobile