Wow... $330 for a used ECU.  Talk about taking advantage of a situation!

6 guys in an air-cooled Vanagon climbing mountains and such, I sure
hope a dropped valve seat isn't in their future.

Good luck guys...

Cheers,

Jeff

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Ted Titcomb<ted@titcomb.com> wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Payson Titcomb [mailto:paysonpayson@aol.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 8:36 AM
> To: Titcomb Ted
> Subject: A new hope...
>
> Ok, it's very late, and I've Been driving for 14 hours, so this one is
> guna be short.
> As many of u have probably heard, our computor, which regulates things
> such as fuel injection, fried. Last night we slept soundly at a
> holiday in not to far from our breakdown in Staunton VA. This morning
> we towed the van to a shop, and a nice fellow named patric saved our
> trip by selling us a used computor for $330 (and a free key chain).
> So, with the van fixed, we decided to ditch new Orleans, and book it
> west.
> Travel was smooth aside from parts of the appalacian mts. Which took
> their toll on velma, asking her to constantly dowshift into 3rd gear,
> and once even second.
> After we got throught the mts. It was truley smooth sailing all the
> way to a park somewhere in Indiana. �We plan to stop in st. Louis for
> a good deal of time to see Taiki's relatives, so it made sense to
> sleep and finish our three hour drive that morning.
> We pulls over, and stayed at leyville park, which is basically a camp
> site except u don't have to pay. Well atleast I don't think so...we
> got there at 2am and left at six...
> So we got to camp and explored till like 3am and then crashed.
> Everyone fits in the van, no tent necessary!
> Anyway, sorry this was a bad report, I'll try and make it better
> tomorrow, or hopefully tonight.
> Later kids!
>
> PAYStheACE
>