If you didn't shout or get angry you just built up a bunch, a big bunch of
brownie points.  Did you need them?

Mike
On 10/11/02 5:30 AM, "Richard Golen" <rgolen@UMASSD.EDU> wrote:

> Stan,
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> A couple of weeks ago, my wife was driving the 87 Westy home from Cape Cod.
> I was following her in my New Beetle, when she suddenly turned on the
> 4-ways and pulled over to the shoulder of the road. I followed suit, got
> out of the beetle walked over to the van to see what was up. She said that
> when she would hit 65 mph the engine would buck and shake and wouldn't go
> any faster. So I went through a quick check list with her....."were you in
> 4th gear" I asked.....
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> She said of course not, I was in 5th! 5th you say? Yep...5th.    So I said,
> strange the van only has 4 gears.......
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> ooops turns out she was in 3rd and revving the pi$$ out of the engine.
>
> In her defense, her Cabrio, our former EV and my NB all have 5
> speeds....and she doesn't drive the Westy all that often...
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> Ric
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> At 07:27 AM 10/11/2002 -0500, Stan Wilder wrote:
>> This is one of those days when I woke up at 4 am for no reason.
>> Rather than go back to bed and roll a few miles trying to get back to
>> sleep I decided to answer a few E mails and read up on the Solex carbs
>> I'm about to rebuild.
>> Time passes and I decide to make a rocket trip to the grocery about 6 AM.
>> I get in my 83 Westy and crank her up, buckle up to stop the screeching
>> seat belt and shift into reverse ......... No Reverse?
>> I give it a few more tries and mutter under my breath 'why me lord'?
>> I know this van is going to be in the wrong place even if I'm going to
>> work on it so I get my flashlight and lay under the van and manipulate
>> the shift rod into what I know to be reverse position.
>> I roll out of "Oh! Hell!" position and sit up noting that I'll never use
>> molybdenum grease on that shift mechanism again.
>> Reaching for a paper towel and wringing my hands hard around the entire
>> roll to get the grease off I notice that reverse on my 83 Westy is
>> forward and over to the left.
>> Just like the picture on the shifter knob!.
>> Gee! Should have considered that all that fun I've been having in that
>> screaming 66 Splittie warped my mind.
>> Splittie reverse is over to the left and backwards all the way.
>> Me thinks I got too many VWs in the drive.
>>
>> Stan Wilder
>> 83 Air Cooled Westfalia
>>
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