Date:         Wed, 17 Jul 2002 02:37:41 -0700
Reply-To:     John Dagastino <themisanthropicmeanie@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Dagastino <themisanthropicmeanie@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: (another) Van Dies,
              Refuses to start in extreme hot weather.. (very long)
Comments: To: Ed Sato <edsato@juno.com>
In-Reply-To:  <20020716.015727.-878033.0.edsato@juno.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

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

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes
http://autos.yahoo.com