When was the last time it was driven?  I remember my 1st car, an early
eighties Ford Escort.  This thing had 110k on it and had sat for a few
years.  While I was fixing it up and getting it road legal again, every time
I started it up it would bellow white smoke better than any smoke screen
machine that I saw while I was in the military.  After awhile of this it
stopped doing this.  The cause, moisture built up in the exhaust system
being burnt off be running it.  And since it was not run at high rpm's for
any length of time all the moisture was never burnt out at all one time.

Jason Yasment

----- Original Message -----
From: John Mates <jmates@ICHIPS.INTEL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 5:17 PM
Subject: White smoke from 86 Vanagon for sale

> Gotta question for you:
>
> What is the chance that a vanagon which can still be driven around the
block but
> which makes white smoke (heads leak) has a rebuildable engine?  I missed
buying
> the van for $500 today ... I was thinking I needed a parts car for my 86
syncro.
> The engine was the part that interested me the most!
>
> I'm guessing it was rebuildable ... what do you guess?
>
> John
> jmates@ichips.intel.com
>