>Date:    Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:16:33 -0800
>From:    Brian and Carol Megas <bmegas@ISLAND.NET>
>Subject: gas mileage
>
>Here's a question - what would you consider absolutely necessary to be
>included in a Westy tool kit when going on a relatively remote, 2-3 week
>wander?  Like I say, it's been a few years since we last worried about this
>kind of stuff.
Duct tape, insulated wire, bottle of tequilla, a few feet of vacuum/gas hose,
some lengths of coolant hose, coolant, H20, some bailing wire, JB weld, hacksaw
blades and a few 1.5" long nut/bolts of various diameter. Oh - and a wrench to
take off the supporting bolt to hold on the spare tire if you no longer have
the original westy wheel wrench! Some big "X" tyre wrenches don't have the
ground clearance to fit under there. (I think it's 19MM - make sure your spare
has AIR!)
Also the obvious basics of 6,8,9,10 . . . MM wrenches. A spare plug wire, fuel
filter, air filter, rotor and cap are nice too.

And in case anything breaks a credit card . . . ;~}
Oh - a most essential repair tool is a copy of the book "Bhagavad-Gita as it
is," by his Divine Grace A.C. Swami Prabhupada - the Hare Krishna/Indian book
of wisdom that people like Oppenheimer and George Harrison read. Mind you,
don't read it - just put in your hippievan. It gives it a good karma so nothing
horrible happens. Worked for me - everything blew out in my hippievan (tranny,
etc) at first then somebody told me to get the book and put it inside. Van is
happy. I'm happy. If you don't like Hare Krishnas, maybe a book about the Dali
Lama. Whatever. The van seems to like this stuff (something about the dichotomy
between Nazis and Eastern Philosophy). I've got two Hare Krishna books -
Bhagavad-Gita and the teachings of Lord Chalamatra (or something like that) in
the van - not sure what's inside the books but the van loves them. I think my
gas mileage went up too!
Make that a few bottles of tequilla in the repair kit. I'm running low
already . . . .

Boldway
'85 Westy
"Panzerkampingwagen"

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