Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:45:19 -0800
Reply-To: Zoltan Kuthy <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET>
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From: Zoltan Kuthy <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET>
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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"
>
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