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Subject:Re: Breather tower test?
From:Mike Miller
Date:Sat, 17 May 2008 19:10:07 -0700

A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real
money.

On 5/17/08 7:02 PM, "Scott Daniel - Shazam" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
wrote:

> LOL !
> But we are talking under$ 5k total to get the engine right ?
> So it's 90 hear,3,800 there.........etc.
> And that's real money in vanagons.....
> But if the engine is really as good as it's supposed to be,
> And cared for properly and driven right .........should be a dozen good
> years in it I'd think, for sure.
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Mike Collum
> Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 2:16 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Breather tower test?
>
> Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:
>> Certainly seems that you brand new Boston Bob engine would be very worthy
> of
>> new oil tower/breather valve - didn't one guy say they were 90 bucks ?
>>
>> That's not that much more of an investment considering what I imagine his
>> new engines cost.
>
> I'm reminded of what Senator Everett Dirksen once said, which went
> something like, "A billion here, a billion there ... pretty soon turns
> into real money".
>
> Mike
>
>
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