Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 12:53:07 -0700
Reply-To: mike <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: mike <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
Subject: Re: RE : (another) Van Dies,
Refuses to start in extreme hot weather.. (very long)
In-Reply-To: <004b01c22dc8$ef7226e0$9380a98e@ouellette001>
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To get off the van mailing list send
Signoff "vanagon gerry.vanagon.com"
Without the quotation marks
To
listserv@gerry.vanagon.com
I think that will do it. If not someone will send the correct instructions.
Mike
> From: "Nichole Ouellette" <nichole@ouellette001.com>
> Organization: ouellette001.com
> Reply-To: <nichole@ouellette001.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 15:34:09 -0400
> To: "'mike'" <mwmiller@CWNET.COM>
> Subject: RE : (another) Van Dies, Refuses to start in extreme hot weather..
> (very long)
>
>
>
> svp enlevez mon nom de la liste d'envoi
> please removed my name of the mailling list
>
> Nichole Ouellette
> artiste peintre, écrivaine, photographe
> éditrice de la Flore laurentienne interactive
> http://ouellette001.com
>
>
>
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] De la part
> de mike
> Envoyé : 17 juillet, 2002 11:29
> À : vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Objet : Re: (another) Van Dies, Refuses to start in extreme hot
> weather.. (very long)
>
>
> You didn't know about Hans and Günter? The VW engineers[? Sadists
> actually]
> that design the wasserboxer? They are closet Nazis that never forgot or
> forgave the US for what we did to Hitler. The wasserleaker is their
> revenge, ongoing.
>
> Mike
>
>> From: John Dagastino <themisanthropicmeanie@YAHOO.COM>
>> Reply-To: John Dagastino <themisanthropicmeanie@YAHOO.COM>
>> Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2002 02:37:41 -0700
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: (another) Van Dies, Refuses to start in extreme hot
> weather..
>> (very long)
>>
>> yup. got a new coil, too. (the old one still worked,
>> but the resistance on it was way too high)
>>
>> sometimes* i wish i had a toyota,
>>
>> or anything with half-assed reliability. *groan*
>>
>> tried beating the battery ground terminal down more.
>> (took it loose to resolder the connection to the
>> alternator (dad did the soldering) )
>>
>> that made teh dash lights brighten a lot. for some
>> reason the freaking cables have to be just right.
>>
>> we will see if that stops it dying.
>>
>> (*actually, most of the time)
>>
>> please tell me i am not alone in wanting to beat up
>> the engineers that designed the vanagon
>>
>> a vanagon with a replacement engine and transmission
>> isn't so bad. but i am beginning to absolutely hate
>> the waterboxer engine and both the auto and manual
>> trans's. incredibly problematic garbage. all of it.
>> garbage garbage garbage. absolutely crap-tastic junk.
>>
>>
>> when they could no longer make the air cooled engine
>> meet the emissions they should have just replaced with
>> with a decent engine in the first place.
>>
>> truthfully, i think using an air cooled engine as late
>> as the 80s was incredibly stupid. they shoulda
>> switched to water cooling a long time before they did.
>>
>> </rant>
>>
>> i guess i'm not a good vanagon person eh? it comes
>> from being repeatedly stuck on the side of the road.
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Ed Sato <edsato@juno.com> wrote:
>>> What about coil. They go bad too! Aloha, Ed
>>
>>
>> =====
>> "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
> "
>> - H. L. Mencken
>> "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to
> live in
>> the real world."
>> -Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
>> More Quotation fun @ http://nerddom.8m.com/quotes.html
>>
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