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Brick owner considering buying an old VW camper???

posted by  1985_740_turbodiesel on  Sat Jun 25 15:38 CST 2005
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I have a fuel injected 1978 VW Westy. It is wonderful! Very easy to work on. Make sure you have all the engine tin in place and the foam seal around the engine as the motor, as you know, is air-cooled. Bad seal is the equivalent of a coolant leak as air is the coolant. Make sure to check compression. It should be 100 over. any lower and you're looking at $350 in parts for a rebuild. They are not fast, but don't let anyone tell you they are dogs because they're not. I can do 70 no problem full loaded. Try the Samba www.thesamba.com It's a very helpful forum. Also thier is a guy named Atwell has an awesome site www.ratwell.com If you need heat, the heater boxes are $250+ a piece. Good luck! email me with any other Q's mycoleptodiscus@yahoo.com






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