

| Subject: | Re: What I'd like to see in a Vanagon... |
| From: | Hans Achter |
| Date: | Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:19:34 -0500 |
That's a novel idea, but I might have a better one... I always carry three or four bottles of gas-line water remover (Heet or Christy or the like) under the back seat. They just contain alcohol, methanol or isopropyl usually. If I know I'm not going to make it or at the first sign of hesitation I shut off the van and pull over and dump them all into the gas tank. I've used that trick several times to get 5 or 10 miles more. You have to dump them in when there is a little fuel left in the tank - the engine has trouble running on it straight. It's much better than carrying a can of gasoline because the narrow bottles store easily, don't leak, they are pretty safe, are fairly cheap, and it doesn't seem to degrade like gasoline even a year or more of storage. I guess it gets all the water out of the tank to boot! -Hans ----- Original Message ----- From: "No Name Available" <Trvlr2001@AOL.COM> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 3:27 PM Subject: What I'd like to see in a Vanagon... Well folks, I just spent the last hour walking to a gas station. Not much fun, Especially when I had a substantial amount of cash in my pockets ! Is there any way we can hook up a couple of high voltage wire to the drivers seat, that would shock the s*** out of me, so I would pull over & get some gas???? :o) seriously, how about a light first, then a buzzer??? How could we fix this up? thanks all, John C. SLC, UT.. 85 Westy 90 bad bus !@!1$%$^@$#%^&
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