......and with the Rescue Squad out there, you should be fine.
Miguel

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
  - Thomas A. Edison

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nope, I've been lucky so far in the past 13 years I've been traveling here
> and there with several trips from the left cost to the east coast and back.
>
> Had a fan switch go bad once, didn't have a spare, so I rigged to have it
> manually switched using a spare rear defogger switch in 1999 and haven't
> switched back since.  And yes I carry at least two headlight switches just
> in case, never needed yet.  The box area under the rear seat/bed is very
> well packed.  Lessee, spare new fuel injectors and seals, belts, some weird
> coolant hoses, assorted relays....like I said, the list goes on and on and
> on....looked there this morning and I shake my head wondering how I get it
> all in there....spare coolant expansion tank and 2 oil filters in the main
> closet on the floor of it....sheesh ;)
> --
> Jim Thompson
> 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
> 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
> 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
> 75 914 1.8 (No Name Yet)
> Full Timing Since March 1999
> oldvolkshome@gmail.com
> http://www.oldvolkshome.com
> ***********************************
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:35 AM, miguel pacheco <mundopacheco@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Jim, in your case, not having the part you needed in a breakdown,
>> would make a far more interesting story. How about it, has it ever
>> happened?
>> You carry far more than I do, and I'm pretty well equipped.
>> Miguel
>>
>> I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
>>  - Thomas A. Edison
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Yep,spare 1.9 ECU (replaced one in Adrian, TX off I-40 several years ago
>> > coming back from Tennessee to SoCal). Plus a starter (replaced that on
>> > another trip coming back from Tennessee to So Cal 3 yrs ago), extra hard
>> > start relay (I have this installed on all VWs I own and just installed
>> > one
>> > on the 914 this past week), alternator (replaced that about 8 years ago
>> > in
>> > Turlock, CA rest stop - only 20 minutes to do that!), two distributors,
>> > water pump, thermostat w/O-Ring, AFM, master cylinder, accel cable,
>> > ignition
>> > switch (electrical part [gave one away to Bev at the Buses By The
>> > Bridge event a few years ago] and lock cylinder), fuel pump (replaced
>> > that a
>> > couple of years ago on a Jerome Jamboree trip in the middle of 100+
>> > degree
>> > heat under an overpass on I-10 about 25 miles east of Quartzsite, AZ),
>> > fuel
>> > filters (both square pre filter and cannister filter), fuel pressure
>> > regulator, plugs, rotor, cap, hall unit, ICU,  spark plug wire set,
>> > coolant
>> > ECU sensor, assorted FI connectors w/pigtails, 2 meters of 7mm fuel
>> > hose, 2
>> > meters of 3.5mm vacuum hose, lotsa appropriate clamps, assorted bulbs
>> > and
>> > the list goes on and on and on....Very well equipped multi-drawer
>> > toolbox
>> > that would normally go on top of a roll-away - this sits on the floor
>> > directly behind the passenger seat.
>> > When you live full time in a Westy, it's best to be prepared for most
>> > contingencies :)
>> > --
>> > Jim Thompson
>> > 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
>> > 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
>> > 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
>> > 75 914 1.8 (No Name Yet)
>> > Full Timing Since March 1999
>> > oldvolkshome@gmail.com
>> > http://www.oldvolkshome.com
>> > ***********************************
>> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 8:59 AM, mark drillock <mdrillock@cox.net>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On the weekend I got a call from a friend in trouble. He had taken a
>> >> group of people up to a lake a few hours from home, using his 86 GL as
>> >> a
>> >> tour bus. Everything went fine and they made it up the 5000' mountain
>> >> without incident. After unloading he decided to park in a different
>> >> spot
>> >> and the van would crank fine but not start.
>> >>
>> >> He checked for spark, ouch, a-ok.
>> >> He had just filled the tank, so plenty of gas, bad fuel?
>> >> He bought some starting fluid and it fired right up and quickly died,
>> >> each time he sprayed.
>> >> He changed the fuel filter, no joy.
>> >> He pulled the injectors from one side, no fuel spraying, aha!
>> >> Pulled a fuel line loose, cranked, plenty of flow.
>> >> He pinched the return line shut, cranked, still no spray at injectors
>> >> but a new leak showed in a line.
>> >> Bought an injector noid light, noid light blinked during cranking.
>> >> I told him the ECU could still be at fault, strong enough injector
>> >> pulses to blink the noid light but not enough juice to fire the
>> >> injectors?
>> >> AAA called, made it home by tow truck.
>> >> Installed his spare ECU from his Westy under bench storage, fired right
>> >> up!
>> >>
>> >> Mark
>