Sounds good to me! I'll pick up a couple of those magnets to go around my
gas line while I'm at it.

At 07:55 AM 7/13/00 -0700, Karl Wolz wrote:
>These effects can be eliminated by installing a Combex reciprocating pump.
>I believe that they can be ordered through JC Whitney.  If I'm not mistaken,
>they advertise a 15 - 20% increase in fuel economy.
>
>Karl Wolz
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Frank Miller" <fmiller01@sprynet.com>
>To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 5:23 AM
>Subject: Re: Weep No More For Me
>
>
>> Fine, but what about the inertial effects on the water depending on the
>> velocity of the van or whether the van is going forward or in reverse?
>> Hurry up Friday!
>>
>>
>> At 10:50 PM 7/12/00 -0400, Karl F. Bloss wrote:
>> >> based on the original poster's assumption that the water pump has to
>work
>> >> relatively hard to pump coolant uphill, would it do less real work if
>> the van
>> >> were constantly driven downhill?
>> >
>> >Forget differential equations.  If it's a closed non-leaking system, it
>> doesn't
>> >matter how the van is facing, the waterpump is only overcoming the
>frictional
>> >losses in the system, not pumping up or down.  I.e. the more piping, the
>more
>> >friction, the more the pump has to work.
>> >
>> >Uphill and downhill don't matter because the starting and stopping point
>for
>> >the fluid is the same.  If the van is facing downhill, for every unit
>mass of
>> >coolant that's going downhill, another unit mass is going uphill and vice
>> versa
>> >if it's pointing uphill.
>> >
>> >-Karl
>> >
>> >Karl & Kristina Bloss, Trexlertown, PA - '87 Weekender "Bev" - 199K Miles
>> >http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw - vanagon@makarov.com
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>> >PA/NJ/DE/MD area VW bus "group" http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/pavanagon
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>> >
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