At 11:23 AM 5/6/2005, you wrote:
>the way a tiny 2 cent problem you think will take ten minutes to fix
>degrades into a Big Deal that takes hours

Heh. Tell me about it. With the simple misapplication of a screw press last
Saturday, I turned a 5 minute tranny piston seal replacement into a $540
exchange with German Transaxle Inc.

>early this morning before work I started painstakingly soldering in
>wires to bypass the damaged parts of the mylar circuit sheet.  Will finish
>the job tonight, PROVIDED nothing else goes haywire in the process!

Are you just wiring jumpers in to fix the burnt and torn sections, or are
you running longer bits to bypass entire sections? I have a couple short
jumpers on mine that keep cracking the copper trace. I'm wondering if it
might work better to just bypass some of those trace entirely...

>Vanagons!  Why do we love them!?

We have no choice! After all the money and time we put into 'em, they're OURS.