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<x-charset iso-8859-1>KeithP=> What were your problems with your T4's?? The head design is weak, and very few people have a clue as to how to keep seats in them other than blind luck (and I'm not dealing with amateurs here). There are far more complex parts to go south on you, often making diagnosis difficult. For instance, I was once stuck in the panhandle of Idaho (America's largest superfund site) for a week till I with some help figured out the (relatively new) fuel pressure regulator had very slowly failed, allowing massive overfueling. I'll give you that the design offers many advantages over our 1940s-style blocks from the '60s, and some people get lucky, but it did not have anything as like as much time in production to work out the bugs, and probability in my experience is that your cost per mile with a Type 4 will be substantially higher. Just today in fact I bought a slightly wrecked '78 Type 2 and I'm just about to do a second engine transplant on my camper, keeping fingers crossed. So I guess I better stop saying skeptical things about them, eh? Steven Ayres, Prescott AZ '66 Grosse Karmann '78 Riviera Camper ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ </x-charset>