sheeeeeeeeeshhhhhhhh........i just got on the list and have been talking
a bit.......guess i better introduce myself..............james
walldow........galena alaska..........have a 89 syncro in calif called
farf.........spend 4 months of the year fulltiming it.........mostly in
mex.......love roller
coasters.......beaches.....water....sailing...thats my
line.........thanks............james

Doug Alcock wrote:

>Hi Dan,
>
>        Welcome to the list. There is general agreement that you shouldn't
>leave home without your credit card, AAA membersip and cellphone. As for
>hand tools you'll get a variety of answers to that question. One extreme (which has a
>lot of adherents) is that your preventative maintenance is so intensive
>that you leave home with no tools but the aforementioned three. The other
>extreme is 'enough tools to pull the engine at the side of the road' and
>some have done it. I carry regular and deep throat metric sockets, metric
>combination wrenches, 5 types of pliers, multi-driver and bits, ball peen
>hammer (BFH), 2 types of visegrips, utility knife and scraper, prybar,
>crowbar. Fuses, spare belt, oil, pre-mix coolant, some odd hose clamps. So
>I guess I'm somewhere in the middle of the spectrum. These all ride in
>tool bag that weighs about 30 lbs. Am I sick of lifting it around the
>Westy when camping ---- Yes!. Would I leave home without it --- no, and my
>wife wouldn't let me either :-)
>
>Cheers,
>Doug
>
>>Okay Volkies,
>>
>>Now that I am a new Westy owner, I need to pick your brains... simple
>>
>question:?
>
>>What tools do you keep in your vannies? What are the essential tools to
>>
>have for basic maintenance and emergency >repair (I already have duct tape
>covered! :-) ? Okay.. so it was *two* simple questions.
>
>>--=Dan
>>'84 Westy
>>
>
>
>
>
>Dan Brustein <brustein@RCN.COM>
>Sent by: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>04/15/2003 01:19 PM
>Please respond to Dan Brustein
>
>
>        To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>        cc:
>        Subject:        Essential Tools
>