With the recent installation of vanagon.com instrument foil replacement, I
am trusting mine again for anything/anywhere. That's how they get ya.

Jim

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 5:19 PM Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dude, I'd recently premtively put in a brand new fuel pump
> ..That was what failed...the new one...The old one ( original?) Works fine,
> it was simply a little loud, I thought, but I should probably know by now,
> "If it ain't broken, don't fix it"
>    Still, a 34 yr old daily driver..
> Not surprising...
> ...
>
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018, 10:52 AM Steven Johnson <sjohnso2000@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Uhhh.....dude,  that was your fault too.   You knew it was old.....
> >
> >
> > Steven
> > 91 Westy
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 9:58 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Most of my Vanagon problems have been my own fault... At first, I'd
> just
> > > blow it, like not properly bleeding the coolant. Then I would often
> > ignore
> > > things I knew were due, cause I use my van for fun, and staying home
> > > working on it isn't that fun for me.
> > >   Today on the way home from biking it quit coming in to the town of
> > Wasco,
> > > Oregon...downshfted from ,5th then got back on the gas and.....buhhhh!
> > > Nothing!  I nursed it into the shade on mainstreet and thought...no
> gas!
> > > The bartender lady from the tavern was on her usual bench outside of
> the
> > > bar, no customers... I asked if the gas place(at the feed co-op) and
> she
> > > said no, but she'd call the Mayor, who'd come down with her card and
> get
> > me
> > > some gas... I thanked her and said I had an idea
> > > ..Dug into my spares, swapped out the fuel pump and the filter and all
> > was
> > > good again...the fuel pump was almost new, changed from the OEM one,
> > ,"just
> > > in case"
> > > ..the OEM one is back in service.  The bartender gave me a thumbs up
> as I
> > > waved my thanks...
> > >
> >
>