

| Subject: | New engine time? |
| From: | Geza Polony |
| Date: | Sun, 1 Jan 2006 18:46:05 -0800 |
Hello All, I'm the proud new owner of a great '84 Westy full camper. Love the car so far, but it has one major defect: It looks like it might need a new engine. Reason I say this is that it blows some white smoke out the tailpipe, overheats with no visible coolant leak, and more and more often runs like a dog--no power, missing, bucking, etc. Here's my question. Would you (a) find the cylinder that's leaking, pull it apart and install new o-rings, then put it back together; (2) same as above but do both heads and have valve job done at the same time; (3) buy rebuilt long block and install--? Previous owner replaced fuel injectors, plugs, wires, dist. cap and rotor, water pump, t-stat within 5K miles. Idles great, starts great, just this running problem! Thanks so much for any input.
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