Karl,

Look to bostonengine.com.  Bob Donalds offers a Ph.D course, gratis.

Tom Hanoon
Palm Springs, CA
84 Westfalia

"Karl F. Bloss" wrote:

> Well as I get deeper into this head gasket job, I'm hearing more voices telling
> me to go for the full rebuild.
>
> Having never done more than change the oil on my cars up to about 3 years ago,
> I'm working my way up the DIY shade-tree mechanic ladder.  Thus I was hoping to
> just do the head gaskets and let that be the lesson from this engine.
>
> But now that the engine is on the floor and I have time (it's a spare engine
> and the gaskets in Bev's engine aren't leaking _that_ bad :-), I keep hearing
> it's just a bit more work and a few more $ to crack the case, do the bearings,
> probably rings, etc.  Ron at the Bus Depot even offered the loaner VW tool kit
> for wrist pins and he's "just around the corner" from me.
>
> So where do I read up on rebuilds?  I have the Muir Idiot Guide, but skipped
> the rebuild sections so far.  I hear about a Fisher book, I check on Amazon.com
> and found the Wilson and Grissom book about aircooled VW rebuilding.  Any other
> suggestions?
>
> -Karl
>
> Karl and Kristina Bloss, Trexlertown, PA
> '87 Westfalia Weekender  "Beverley" - 190K miles
> http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/
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