Vanagon trip, 4000 mile tour of the American Southwest.
Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2017 11:54 am
I'm at the final week of a nearly 6 week camping trip of the Southwest, starting with 9 days in Death Valley. Although I'm an air-cooled fan, with my '78 Westy, I have really enjoyed piloting my buddy Zeke's '87 Vanagon around the countryside. It shows 305,000 miles, and he thinks it has about 80,000 on the current rebuild. He's put about 60,000 of those miles in it. We have had two problems along the way, a coil gone bad, which stopped us at about the most gawdawful remote spot in Death Valley, with the foreboding name of Crankshaft Junction, and, a weird problem with the blue cap overflow tank in the cooling system. We are still messing about with that, every 500 or so miles. We'll sort it out one day. All in all, the way this thing is running, I don't understand the fuss about replacing these engines with Subarus or others. A little underpowered in headwinds, but, so what? Who's in a hurry?https://goo.gl/photos/KH1uVAh7jurmvvi37
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