Well ................ .  Don ---  a man I can admire for honesty and
reasonableness.   Actually, reinforces my thoughts that a lot of the
love of the Vanagon is by those whose main interest is in working on it,
rather than benefitting from its abilities.  One should have mechanical
aptitude, and love to use it for the Vanagon to be a fun vehicle.

David

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Don Hanson wrote:

> I don't agree that "most of the satisfaction is finding out what the
> actual problem was...."    While that is sometimes sort of satisfying,
> for
> me the most satisfaction comes when I can get quickly past the problem
> when
> my van (or scooter, or racecar, or whatever) either quit working
> properly or
> refused to work at all and thwarted my plans for that period of
> time...
>
>   If I can 'throw a part at it" and get on with my life...very
> satisfying..If I have to spend hours with a voltmeter, schematics,
> digitizing ohms and analyzing micro signals...I find that rather
> tedious...And when a problem occurs that is caused by a very obscure
> coincidence of  circumstances, one that results in large expenditures
> of
> time to trace and fix....When I finally figure one of those problems
> out
> rather than satisfaction...I just go..."Great, now I can sell this POS
> and
> get something easy to work on instead"...
>   Don Hanson
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans