Hey Jeff, good to have you back!  =)

I hope you're more or less all better and ready to face the problems in your
Van...

Good Luck!

Seeya,  Jake

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Jeff oxroad <oxroad@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all you lunatics---
>
> I've been off the list for quite a while, but I'm giving you fair warning:
> I'm back.
>
> My bus has been sitting for a couple of years now. Before you have me
> arrested and hauled cross country to the Cambridge PD station followed by a
> Beer Summit at the Whitehouse, I got injured pretty good a while back and
> the bus suffered the consequences of neglect.
>
> No need for panic, the bus was never injured, save the insult of sitting in
> my driveway like a monument to my failure to properly care for her during
> my
> recovery.
>
> Now, like a Phoenix University Student, I am determined to raise the bus
> from the figurative ashes.
>
> Don't worry about me, I am fine now, although I personally show a little
> more mileage.
>
> The bus on the other hand has the benefit of not being driven so it still
> only shows 160k beneath the veil of cobwebs.
>
> The first order of business is a wash and wax and see what we've got.
> Then I suppose I'll drain the gasoline or whatever it has become during
> it's
> vacation in the tank.
>
> The bus started up to two years ago when one day I went to move it and it
> ran fine for about 4 minutes then just sputtered twice and died with a puff
> of white smoke
> as if it had run out of fuel. I couldn't really get around too well to
> diagnose the problem or fix it at that time, so it sat there. There was
> seemingly plenty of fuel in the tank at that time.
>
> I'll keep you posted and likely be stuck and looking for advice.
>
> I hope you're all well and look forward to seeing what's going on in the
> world of Vanagons again.
> (I've moved from aol to gmail in the meantime so I'm "Au Courant." I think
> that's French for "consumer" ;)
>
> Yea!
>
> Best,
> Jeff
> 83.5 Westy
> LA,CA
>

--
Beverley Anne de Villiers   April 20, 1930 - July 4, 2009

Jake

1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"

Crescent Beach, BC

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