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Subject:Re: FAQs-I like it!
From:David Marshall
Date:Tue, 19 Jan 1999 18:44:26 -0800

Great suggestion!  ( you forgot engine swaps! ).  Who is going to look
after the project?  Perhaps we could have a person "in the know" write a
spacific chaper and submit it to a central person.. suggestions anyhow.  Do
I want to become involved?  No, not really, too busy with Gerry and my
other three burners that are always on full.

At 14:03 19/01/1999 -0500, Karl Bloss wrote:
>Time to refocus...
>
>I like Tim's idea of FAQs.  When we're all done, perhaps they can have a
>home on vanagon.com.  Then when a newbie pops up with a question or one of
>us runs into a problem we previously ignored chatter about, we can point
>there.  Is the vanagon.com site still updated regularly?  The "What's New"
>section is a bit dated.
>
>Possible FAQs (inspired by the ones Tim named):
>
>* oil (dynamic oil pressure system, gauges, types, filters)
>* tires/wheels (including Audi 5000 TURBO [this is for you, Chris ;-)] )
>* headlights/foglights
>* coolant (flushing tips, leaky heads, overflow/expansion tanks)
>* fuel system (AFM, O2 sensor, temp I/II sensors, ground straps,
>stuttering, mention Digifant/Digijet tool) [Darrell, this one has your
>name written on it]
>* paint/rust/trim
>* syncro
>* Westfalia
>* (what'd I miss?)
>
>Since I spent some time with it (although I'm not an expert), I'll
>volunteer to put together a FAQ on the oil pressure system, analog oil
>pressure gauges, and about oil-related topics relevant to Vanagons.
>
>Any takers?
>
>-Karl
>
>
>Karl F. Bloss - blosskf@apci.com or bloss@enter.net
>'87 Vanagon GL Weekender "Beverley"; Trexlertown, PA
>http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/
>VW shops: http://www.enter.net/~bloss/vw/vwshops/
>
>

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