Just took a 2500 mile trip from El Paso, TX to Northern MO and back.

1. The day before I left I lost a hubcap - made a really interesting noise
sliding down the road at 45mph until it went under a semi tire.

2. Rock broke the left side driving light going through Weatherford, OK.

3. Developed BIG leak in right side of radiator about 100 miles SW of
topeka.  No way to get it repaired so I used bars leak and stopped about
every 30 mintes and put in about a 1/2 gal of water and bled it until I
arrived in MO late Fri nite.

4. On Tue a local rad shop said he could fix it and to bring it in on Wed.

5.  On Wed he said he didn't mean he could fix it anytime soon, he wanted me
to pay a deposit to order a new radiator and said that it would be 1 or 2
weeks before he could actually work on it.

6.  On Wed afternoon I called the Bus Depot and Ron had a new raditor at my
location at 9:00 am the next morning.  Very good since he didn't have one in
stock.  This is not the first time that Ron has gotten me out of trouble,
and I don't really know how to thank him.

7.  On the way back my idle stabilizer valve (which had been unplugged for a
week) really went bad.  A Texaco station on the freeway directed me to a VW
dealer 30 miles away in Ponca City, OK.  When I got there I discovered the
the VW dealer had been closed for 3 years.  By accident I discovered a shop
(Tune-Up Masters) on the main drag where Glem (used to work at VW) diagnosed
the problem, plugged up the valve, said that I probably should get a new
one, sent me on my way in less than 30 minutes, and didn't charge me
anything.

8. Lost a hyd lifter (seperate post)

If I count this up correctly, I think I'm about to have another problem.
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