Everytime I get to work on an air cooled beast, I am quickly reminded of
just how great the Water Boxer is.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of Stan Wilder
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 7:54 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Oil Leaks due to Synthetics

oh wait 84 is air-cooled huh?
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Go ahead and laugh!
If I find a decent Wasser Boxer Westy with a dead engine I'm going to
plug one of my Air Cooled engines in it. An Eberspacher heater will fix
the one fault.

Stan Wilder

On Tue, 20 May 2003 16:55:36 +0000 Joseph Fortino
<fortinoj@SPEAKEASY.NET> writes:
> well it has to take after the " aircooled brother " my bug has a
> sticker
> that says " oil dripper " ohh something about syn oils and crapping
> out the
> seals on older types, sometimes if you change oils what you talk of
> happens
>
> oh wait 84 is aircooled huh?
>
> Joe
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ed Hinchey [mailto:EJHin@AOL.COM]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 12:52 PM
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Re: Oil Leaks due to Synthetics
> >
> > I have an '84 Westy with about 200K miles (the odometer broke in
> 1991 with 104K on it) on the original engine.  I never used
> synthetic oil and it has leaked from just about every possible
> orifice since I bought it.  I always seem to be one leak behind.
> >
> > Me thinks that most Vanagons leak oil, and some leak more or less
> than others - the type of oil probably doesn't make any difference.
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> > Ed
> > '84 Westy in Syracuse
> >
>
>

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