Date:         Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:06:43 -0400
Reply-To:     Eric Nettles <enettles@mindspring.com>
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From:         Eric Nettles <enettles@mindspring.com>
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Hello everybody!

Well, a young three years into my first Vanagon, its getting better and
better all the time.
Finally able to worry about things like cosmetics (Going to do that window
chrome soon!) and take care of little annoyances.

The ones I'm currently working on are as follows:

I have an 87, Wolfsburg, automatic... at any decent speed the button that
locks the shift lever into place starts to rattle REALLY loudly. I've just
been stuffing sections of the cover of my now completely beat up (and well
traveled) road atlas in the crack... a solution that works until it vibrates
free again.  Is there a missing gasket for this or something else anyone's
done to get rid of the rattle?

Second: My speedometer needs some rebuilding or something... I have taken it
apart, pushed the row of gears back into line again, but every time I
reinstall the speedometer, it works its way back out of sync within the
first .1 mile... (Kinda cool, three years, MANY long trips and a daily
driver, and the van hasn't aged a single bit!!  RIGHT...) anyway, tips or
pointers? I'm guessing its a little dificult to get a new one, since that
would make it easy for everyone to reset the mileage when its time to
sell...

Hrm.  Well, thats all for now! Thanks everyone ;)

Eric Nettles...