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Subject:Re: Stopped in Moro... fuel?
From:Neil N
Date:Thu, 20 Oct 2016 18:16:53 -0700

Has it been a while since you've driven your Vanagon in the rain?
I'm thinking water.

A long shot but easy to do: remove gas cap.

On 10/20/16, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

> That last was "guesses".... It restarts but dies in 15-20 seconds, moved it
> to get the  truck right, if he shows up...
>
> On Oct 20, 2016 6:01 PM, "Don Hanson" <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Riding along in the rain, 84 Digifant vanagon with an ABA inline gas
> motor, started missing. Key cycling has no "reset"...all gauges normal,  no
> flicker the lights...Stop, listen, fuel pump sounds normal.  I have spares
> but it's pouring and getting dark.  We have one more ride with AAA, the
> others for this term used for my SO on horse journeys.  So waiting for my
> first flatbed truck ride and wondering what I'll find after he drops me in
> front of my dry and lighted garage....feels like fuel....vusssez
>

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Neil n

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