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Subject:Re: [VWVANFULLTIMERS] New Engine
From:jimt
Date:Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:08:43 -0600

Strange... I didn�t know there was a malawi in the US continental region
(CONUS)?  Only malawi I knew of was where I used to import fish from.
jimt

On 10/29/05 8:02 AM, "Rob" <becida@COMCAST.NET> wrote:

> At  10/29/2005 06:16 AM, jhecht@alum.mit.edu wrote:
>> Bummer!  I didn't realize you needed a new engine.  That sucks. Here I
>> figured you'd probably finally made it out of Michigan.  Well, don't worry,
>> you will!
>> 
>> As for me, I'm temporarily off the road - in Malawi, doing some work for a
>> change.  It's actually quite interesting, but I miss Matilda!  She's in
>> Boulder, waiting for me to return, sometime after Thanksgiving.
> 
> This Malawi?  http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/mi.html
> 
> 
>> So are you now ditching your mechanic's engine person and going with a
>> Boston Bob?  Or still waiting for one from the same guy?
> 
>>  Unfortunately, after waiting a week for the engine, the wrong
>> one was shipped- air cooled instead of water cooled. Now we have to wait
>> another week for the right one!
> 
> In a case like this who pays for all the additional shipping?
> 
> 
> 
> Rob
> becida@comcast.net
> 
>