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Subject:Re: Vanagon Science Degree
From:John Rodgers
Date:Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:55:28 -0600

Daniel Erlandson wrote:

>>
>> Date:    Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:53:54 -0600
>> From:    John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
>> Subject: Re: blinking coolant light with full coolant
>>
>> For everyone who owns a Vanagon based vehicle - ownership is like
>> going
>> to college and studying for a degree. You read, read, read, and then
>> read some more. Since the degree is in Vanagon Science, nothing is
>> to be
>> left unread just because it has no immediate application. Sooner or
>> later you will need every bit of the information you have read
>> about  -
>> and hopefully digested. At the very least you should have references
>> that trigger the brain as to where to go to find information for
>> troubleshooting. The Vanagon  List is some of the best "Reference
>> Material" you can get in pursuing that Bachelor's in Vanagon
>> Science. So
>> read, read, read.
>>
>>  The final exam is a practical test that will take place on a dark and
>> rainy night on a back road half way between Nowhere and Anywhere USA.
>> Guaranteed!!  You want to be knowledgable enough to have the right
>> answers to the questions and finish the test fast, and get on down the
>> road. :-)
>>
>> John Rodgers
>> 88 GL Driver
>
>
> So if the van is running well then we've passed the test, gotten the
> degree, and driving down the road...I want a diploma :).  I think
> I'll frame the rusted out remains of the 1991 exhaust system that I
> still have in the garage and make a label that says from the School
> of Applied Torque Wrenches and Skinned Knuckles.
>
> dan
>
>
Now that sounds like a winner!!

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver - still reading ....... and reading...... and reading.......!