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Date:         Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:05:11 -0800
Reply-To:     Brent Christensen <sbsyncro@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Brent Christensen <sbsyncro@HOTMAIL.COM>
Comments: To: Zoltan Kuthy <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET>
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Uh, yea... And a water pump and maybe some belts, too. :-)

Brent Christensen '89 GL Sycnro Westy "Klaus" Santa Barbara, CA

----- Original Message ----- From: "Zoltan Kuthy" <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 8:45 PM

> James, > Would the Kama Sutra work instead? It is religious and meditating, > trallalla... > It is good to have the usual set of tools that can open and shut everything. > Plus big hammer, crow bar, towing rope, GPS, satellite phone, cognac, Smith > and Wesson, > childless young female, Bentley book, flash light, umbrella, etc. > Just kidding... But some of these you will miss when you are in the gunk. > Zoltan > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "James T." <jboldway@INTCON.NET> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> > Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:19 PM > > > > >Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:16:33 -0800 > > >From: Brian and Carol Megas <bmegas@ISLAND.NET> > > >Subject: gas mileage > > > > > >Here's a question - what would you consider absolutely necessary to be > > >included in a Westy tool kit when going on a relatively remote, 2-3 week > > >wander? Like I say, it's been a few years since we last worried about > this > > >kind of stuff. > > Duct tape, insulated wire, bottle of tequilla, a few feet of vacuum/gas > hose, > > some lengths of coolant hose, coolant, H20, some bailing wire, JB weld, > hacksaw > > blades and a few 1.5" long nut/bolts of various diameter. Oh - and a > wrench to > > take off the supporting bolt to hold on the spare tire if you no longer > have > > the original westy wheel wrench! Some big "X" tyre wrenches don't have the > > ground clearance to fit under there. (I think it's 19MM - make sure your > spare > > has AIR!) > > Also the obvious basics of 6,8,9,10 . . . MM wrenches. A spare plug wire, > fuel > > filter, air filter, rotor and cap are nice too. > > > > And in case anything breaks a credit card . . . ;~} > > Oh - a most essential repair tool is a copy of the book "Bhagavad-Gita as > it > > is," by his Divine Grace A.C. Swami Prabhupada - the Hare Krishna/Indian > book > > of wisdom that people like Oppenheimer and George Harrison read. Mind you, > > don't read it - just put in your hippievan. It gives it a good karma so > nothing > > horrible happens. Worked for me - everything blew out in my hippievan > (tranny, > > etc) at first then somebody told me to get the book and put it inside. Van > is > > happy. I'm happy. If you don't like Hare Krishnas, maybe a book about the > Dali > > Lama. Whatever. The van seems to like this stuff (something about the > dichotomy > > between Nazis and Eastern Philosophy). I've got two Hare Krishna books - > > Bhagavad-Gita and the teachings of Lord Chalamatra (or something like > that) in > > the van - not sure what's inside the books but the van loves them. I think > my > > gas mileage went up too! > > Make that a few bottles of tequilla in the repair kit. I'm running low > > already . . . . > > > > Boldway > > '85 Westy > > "Panzerkampingwagen" > > > > --------------------------------------------- > > This message was sent using Endymion MailMan. > > http://www.endymion.com/products/mailman/ >


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