Larry wrote:

On another subject, the other day I turned on my AC for the first time
since last summer. About 30 seconds later there was white smoke pouring out
from the dash near the switch.<snip> Your thoughts?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

White smoke is often the herald to a genie.

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
Cary, NC     USA
www.bulley-hewlett.com
(888) 468-4880 toll free

-----Original Message-----
From:   Larry Burt [SMTP:lwburt@SPIRITONE.COM]
Sent:   Thursday, March 25, 1999 9:09 PM
To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject:        Shock Brands, AC Switch

Folks

I'm getting ready to do shocks on my 86 2wd Westy, and I'm seeing
conflicting views of reality from you all, so I'm trolling again:

Bilstein Front B460830/Boge Rear 26-467F from Bus Depot, $90 each plus
ship, etc.
  Bilsteins seem to be the primo shock, but at least one lister didn't
thing much of them and I'm baffled as to why the depot doesn't sell
front and rear? Also the Bilstein Shock site said front is B46-0820 and
rear is B46-0830. I put a set of Bilsteins on my 67 Volvo 122 wagon 20
years ago and was stunned by the improvement in ride and handling.

Koni Front 82-2100, rear 82-2101. Where can I get these, what do they
cost? Seem like these are a good "second-best" to the Bilsteins.

KYBs: Front KYB345006, Rear KYB KG5557 according to Bus Depot, $27 each.
Some of you love them, others disdain them.

Monroe, NAPA, Sears: $20-$30 seem to get pretty good reports.

On another subject, the other day I turned on my AC for the first time
since last summer. About 30 seconds later there was white smoke pouring
out from the dash near the switch. I turned the switch off and
everything calmed down. Your thoughts? Replace the switch, obviously,
but anything else to look out for? It worked fine last summer.

Thanks
Larry Burt, lwburt@spiritone.com