You didn't know about Hans and G�nter?  The VW engineers[? Sadists actually]
that design the wasserboxer?  They are closet Nazis that never forgot or
forgave the US for what we did to Hitler.  The wasserleaker is their
revenge, ongoing.

Mike

> From: John Dagastino <themisanthropicmeanie@YAHOO.COM>
> Reply-To: John Dagastino <themisanthropicmeanie@YAHOO.COM>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 02:37:41 -0700
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: (another) Van Dies, Refuses to start in extreme hot weather..
> (very long)
> 
> yup. got a new coil, too. (the old one still worked,
> but the resistance on it was way too high)
> 
> sometimes* i wish i had a toyota,
> 
> or anything with half-assed reliability. *groan*
> 
> tried beating the battery ground terminal down more.
> (took it loose to resolder the connection to the
> alternator (dad did the soldering) )
> 
> that made teh dash lights brighten a lot. for some
> reason the freaking cables have to be just right.
> 
> we will see if that stops it dying.
> 
> (*actually, most of the time)
> 
> please tell me i am not alone in wanting to beat up
> the engineers that designed the vanagon
> 
> a vanagon with a replacement engine and transmission
> isn't so bad. but i am beginning to absolutely hate
> the waterboxer engine and both the auto and manual
> trans's. incredibly problematic garbage. all of it.
> garbage garbage garbage. absolutely crap-tastic junk.
> 
> 
> when they could no longer make the air cooled engine
> meet the emissions they should have just replaced with
> with a decent engine in the first place.
> 
> truthfully, i think using an air cooled engine as late
> as the 80s was incredibly stupid. they shoulda
> switched to water cooling a long time before they did.
> 
> </rant>
> 
> i guess i'm not a good vanagon person eh? it comes
> from being repeatedly stuck on the side of the road.
> 
> 
> 
> --- Ed Sato <edsato@juno.com> wrote:
>> What about coil. They go bad too! Aloha, Ed
> 
> 
> =====
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> - H. L. Mencken
> "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in
> the real world."
> -Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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