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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
>> 
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