Date:         Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:56:03 -0600
Reply-To:     Marshall Ruskin <mjruskin@HOME.COM>
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From:         Marshall Ruskin <mjruskin@HOME.COM>
Subject:      Re: Newbie >>>> Intro .. sorry ... LONG
Comments: To: Malcolm Stebbins <MSTEBBIN@MSVU1.MSVU.CA>
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Malcom:

The last time I tried to put the fuel filter before the fuel filter, I
started to feel all woozy after a while, and Karen had to come over and slap
me around for a while, until I could "snap out of it"!

Marshall Ruskin, 84 Westy
Aloha from Winnipeg!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Malcolm Stebbins" <MSTEBBIN@MSVU1.MSVU.CA>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 03:19 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie >>>> Intro .. sorry ... LONG


> Try:  http://www.pertronix.com/home.htm  for points
> replacement.  You'll NEVER have to get it times or
> replace points for your trip.  For me, NO change in
> dwell or timing in 20,000 kms.
>
> Also try Darrell's digitool at http://216.92.120.77/vw/
> Click on the Vanagon then Digitool 3.0.   This tool will tell
> you how the engine is working electonically-speaking,
> and will help diagnose problems.  If I didn't have carbs, I'd
> have one of these. Be careful on digifont versus digijet.
>
> Put a fuel filter BEFORE the fuel filter.
>
> Use synthetic oil and correct-vanagon oil  filter.
>
> Set up an account wit the Busdepot.com as you will be
> ordering parts from them - eventually.
>
> m2cw.  Malcolm