Well Mike!
All of us with Preventive Maintenance Syndrome never have parts failures.

True; we all have a closet full of new parts demanding out constant
attention just to keep them inventoried so we don't double backup on
parts orders.
The rule is; If it hisses, squeaks, bumps, whines, binds or any way
offends us, replace the part.
This rule applies to big items like engines, transmissions, blower
motors, water pumps just like the little stuff.
I expect to see the Executive Staff from Bus Depot, Bus Boys, IMPEX,
Rocky Mountain Motor Works at my funeral. (Hopefully I'll be looking down
on them and not up at their shoe soles.)
When I have visitors I like to show off my parts inventory and explain to
them that I'm going to install the parts because I'm tired of waiting for
the old part to fail.
Just the other day I was considering replacing the shims under all four
springs and I ran out of beer.
I'd be out there waxing my Westy right now but I'm just afraid that one
day soon its going to wax right back.
http://williamwareagency.com/forsale/stanvan/vans.htm
I recently installed a late model Vanagon speedometer in my 83 Air Cooled
and the speedometer has 100 mph on the face. That speedometer gets me
more laughs from passengers than I can count.
So don't be ragging on our Friday Humor while I'm sitting here waiting
for 8 rocker arm lock nuts from Bus Boys. They been there for 19 years
and I've got myself convinced that they are up for failure within the
next 70 miles.
If you want to do something constructive, contact the administrators at
type2 list and tell them what a valuable asset I am to the Vanagon list.
Tell them that baring me for lifetime is unfair just for posting a virus
warning.
I miss my daily Air Cooled Fix.

Stan Wilder
83 Westfalia Air Cooled

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 10:22:06 -0800 mike miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
writes:
> I actually thought that even Friday humor was supposed to be
> 'somewhat' van
> related.
>
> Maybe it's the 'worrying works' one that qualifies this?  Nope, 90 %
> of what
> I worry about on my van breaks, so does the other 10 % .
>
>
>
> Mike
>
> > From: developtrust <developtrust@HOME.COM>
> > Reply-To: developtrust <developtrust@HOME.COM>
> > Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 09:49:10 -0800
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Subject: Friday humor
> >
> > DEEP THOUGHTS:
> >
> > -- Worrying works! 90 percent of the things I worry about
> > never happen.
> >
> > -- Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead
> > of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, either.
> > Just leave me alone.
> >
> > -- It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as
> a
> > warning to others.
> >
> > -- It is far more impressive when others discover your good
> > qualities without your help.
> >
> > -- Good judgment comes from bad experience and a lot of that
> > comes from bad judgment.
> >
> > -- Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
> >
> > -- If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a
> couple
> > of car payments.
> >
> > -- If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again,
> > it was probably worth it.
> >
>
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