

| Subject: | Re: RE : (another) Van Dies, Refuses to start in extreme hot weather.. (very long) |
| From: | mike |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:53:07 -0700 |
To get off the van mailing list send Signoff "vanagon gerry.vanagon.com" Without the quotation marks To listserv@gerry.vanagon.com I think that will do it. If not someone will send the correct instructions. Mike > From: "Nichole Ouellette" <nichole@ouellette001.com> > Organization: ouellette001.com > Reply-To: <nichole@ouellette001.com> > Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:34:09 -0400 > To: "'mike'" <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> > Subject: RE : (another) Van Dies, Refuses to start in extreme hot weather.. > (very long) > > > > svp enlevez mon nom de la liste d'envoi > please removed my name of the mailling list > > Nichole Ouellette > artiste peintre, �crivaine, photographe > �ditrice de la Flore laurentienne interactive > http://ouellette001.com > > > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] De la part > de mike > Envoy� : 17 juillet, 2002 11:29 > � : vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Objet : Re: (another) Van Dies, Refuses to start in extreme hot > weather.. (very long) > > > 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 >> >> >> ===== >> "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. > " >> - 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 >> More Quotation fun @ http://nerddom.8m.com/quotes.html >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes >> http://autos.yahoo.com >> > >
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