Wish I could say that - our Great Dane Zeus costs over $200 a month in vet
bills.  Love him though!

On 1/24/07, Mark Tuovinen <mst@ak.net> wrote:
>
> Hey, our Great Dane is very low maintenance.  She requires much less than
> our vans do and as an added bonus her byproducts are biodegradable.:>)
>
> Mark in AK
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
> Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:34 pm
> Subject: Re: Death Valley
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
> > --snip--
> > > I don't want to start a "here's my tool list" thread
> > > because that's been done a gazillion times, but is there such a list
> > > published online?
> > --snip--
> >
> > Back when Joy had started her trek and was beginning to have
> > troubles with
> > Matilda I was thinking that for 'folks like her' (the mechanical
> > novice) it
> > would be useful to have a basic Vanagon tool list. I thought if
> > you used the
> > maintenance schedule as a starting point, you could list the tools
> > necessaryfor each job, and by the end you would then have a list
> > of those tools
> > necessary to do most of what you would ever need to do on the van.
> > I suspect
> > that it would wind up being like any fairly comprehensive basic
> > tool kit you
> > could buy but it would be interesting to see it and have it broken
> > down by
> > job. You could then take the list, if you were so inclined, and
> > assemble a
> > 'Vanagon tool box', or fill in the blanks on the tools you have.
> >
> > Of course for the Vanagon there are other things that belong in the
> > 'maintenance list' that aren't going to be in the manual (like
> > replacing the
> > fuel lines), so they would have to be added in, and depending on
> > who was
> > assembling the list even something like that might require
> > additional tools
> > such as the spring-clamp tool. Another thing that came to mind was
> > the tool
> > for the CV bolts.
> >
> > I didn't have time to pursue it but it comes to mind now and then-
> > if we
> > made a list that was a combination of lists, 'what you should do
> > to your van
> > immediately after purchase', 'the modified routine maintenance
> > list' and the
> > list of the tools necessary to do each job (and thereby a
> > comprehensive tool
> > list) it would probably be a great help, particularly to the new
> > owners that
> > show up and those that have had their vans long enough to realize that
> > they've purchased the automotive equivalent of a Great Dane.
> >
> > Cya,
> > Robert
> >
>