Date:         Wed, 23 May 2001 17:43:21 EDT
Reply-To:     SyncrogalVW@cs.com
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Loretta Abbott-Kennon <SyncrogalVW@cs.com>
Subject:      exhaust w/baked-on mud
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Hello List!

I have a problem now with both my Vanagons.

Before I got my Syncro I took my regular Vanagon everywhere (& got stuck
plenty of times).  About four years ago I took my Vanagon out on a muddy lake
bed and though I didn't get stuck it was a mess to clean up!  The problem is
that the mud seemed to bake on to the exhaust pipes and will not come off.
After all this time my exhaust still has a reddish color from the mud.

This past winter I took my Syncro out to the Navajo reservation in Arizona
and took off down a road that was closed to visit a family way out on the
edge of a canyon.  Thinking that my Syncro could get through anything after
pulling several cars and trucks out of the muddy ditches on my way, I too got
stuck, very stuck, and close to sliding off over an edge!!!  I camped in that
spot for two days until I heard a truck (4X4 Chevy w/ huge tires and chains)
and waved the driver down and he kindly pulled me out.  (After coming close
to us both going over the slippery edge.)  Well, that humbled me and my
"Syncro go anywhere" ideas but it left me with that same reddish brown
baked-on mud on my exhaust system!

Has anyone else had this mud problem?  Anyone solved it?  Ideas?

Thank you for reading my sad muddy story.

Loretta
87 Syncro GL
90 GL

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