** At 11:08 AM 8/27/2004, Stan Wilder wrote: **

>Seems useless to be making that big list of Vanagon problems when Bentley
>has a 5 pound book with about 2500 pages that covers all of the problems,
>potential problems and how to partially fix most problems.

but thats just it.. 5 b book  2500 pages..  flipping
back and forth between the correct wiring diagram and
the picture of the fuel pump relay housing for instance..
what page is that fues block picture on again?

Something like the Muir book for type 1's
although it would be definitely a labor of love
(you sure wouldn't make any money on it!)  :-)

doable, but not that easy to use... and it definiltely
doesnt have the front page list of the things that usually
fail at the point in time where our vans are today..

(i.e. where are the warnings in Bently about the
   fuel delivery system (hoses) going south and burning
    up the van? :-)

laundry list would help people understand
where a particular van is with respect to the
things that can go bad.

much of this info folks have learned through
experience (or in my case the list, web sites,
etc)

I argue that it's not that hard to come up to
speed on these vehicles (given a mechanical
bent and an inquisitive, willing to learn mind)

Probably a barrier to entry is helpful in that sense..
these are not the sotr of vehicles that you just dump
gas and oil in and drive, without paying them a bit
of attention.

Having a list might also lead to replacing stuff that
really doesnt need replacing, but oh well.

>Wouldn't it be cool if Bentley had included the part numbers in their repair
>descriptions??

yep.. definitely!

  -tim