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Subject:Re: Oil filler tube HELP
From:David Beierl
Date:Mon, 8 Jul 2002 22:22:33 -0400

FWIS -- the whole thing is one part number.  I see jury-rigging in your
future...

david
ps -- *jury-rigging* is the seamanlike and honorable practice of making an
improvised rig with what's available on board, as well as may be in the
circumstances.  *Jerry-built* is to build shoddily, cheaply, flimsily...

At 12:49 PM 7/8/2002, Malcolm Stebbins wrote:
>For as long as I have owned this van (4 years) I have NOT had the plastic
>top to the
>metal oil filler tube.  Now let me be exact - I've been missing ALL of the
>plastic not
>just the extension tube that is inside the other plastic tube. (I've been
>gerry-rigging a
>plug for the tube).

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David Beierl - Providence, RI
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