

| Subject: | Re: vans |
| From: | Don Hanson |
| Date: | Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:21:01 -0500 |
Correcting a Splitty..Boy, someone would sure have their work cut out putting my old 57 S-african back into 'factory' condition...If it still exists. I think my all-time best modification, done through necessity on one of our 'hippy circumnavigations of the western US and Canada' was the cooling scoops we added near Reno... That old 36 hp motor ran great but anytime we had a long pass..(and the passes took a looong time in that bus) the motor would heat up and suddenly seize...We'd have to clutch in and roll backwards off the road onto the shoulder and wait..sometimes maybe two-three beers worth...then she'd start right back up and roll along again at about 15mph uphill..Usually, only one seize-up per pass in the Serrias... So near the Reno dump we ran over someone's lost garbage can lid..musta blown out of his pickup..Stopped and picked it up, cut it in half, used our knees to form it into two scoops and screwed those right onto the side of the bus over the engine vents...No more seizing up! Those stayed on till I sold that bus..Pretty nice battleship gray enamel roller paint job, too. Don Hanson
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