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Originally Posted by sammyg2
As a comparison, the average vega engine had a lifespan measured in months .All you had to do was overheat it once (which wasn't hard to do) and the sleeves would come loose in the block. Then they would leak oil and water and smoke and everyhing else you could imagine.
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Sammy, actually it was quite worse than you wrote. The earlier Vega engines did not even HAVE the sleeves. just the aluminum block. It was funny, as we had a '71 notchback that never had a problem, but when I bought a '74 GT, it had a casting hole that wept from the water jacket. The replacement engine they gave me DID have the sleeved inserts, but I just got them to give it to me in crate form, as I dropped a small-block into the Vega, and used the replacement engine in a "Frankenstein" bug-eye Sprite.