At 03:06 PM 9/4/2009, John Rodgers wrote:
>thought here. . Fix what is broken, then apply good preventive
>maintenance - and the van will operate pretty much trouble free and not
>likely at all to leave you sitting on the side of the road at night in a
>thunderstorm halfway between somewhere and nowhere 80 miles from the
>nearest service station/garage.

Exactly!  Well said, John, and the rest of it.

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