Date:         Sun, 25 Aug 2002 11:19:57 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Buying my first VW
Comments: To: devoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET
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http://williamwareagency.com/forsale/stanvan/shapingup.htm
This should about do it.
Double check the fuel lines.
Double check the fuel lines.
Double check the fuel lines.
Double check the fuel lines.

Stan Wilder

On Sun, 25 Aug 2002 10:40:49 -0400 Chris & Kelly DeVoto
<devoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET> writes:
> I posted a couple of weeks ago about my soon-to-be-new-to-me '82
> Vanagon's
> starter.  That problem has been solved and the starter is sitting
> with my
> toolbox waiting to go.  Now I've got some detail questions
> hopefully
> someone can help with.  The bus has been sitting for about 8 months
> now
> (since the starter went out) and I'm planning on camping out in it
> the
> first night I get it started, I also have to drive from Madison WI
> to
> Louisville KY to get it home.  Here are my questions and thanks for
> the
> help.
>
> 1.  Is there anything in particular I should look at on a bus that
> has sat
> for so long before I make the drive?
>
> 2.  I've never had the "privilege" of working on a diesel engine.
> Should I
> siphon out the old fuel before trying to start the engine?
>
> 3.  What do I need to do to purge the water system?  I believe it
> was
> emptied when the starter died but it's been sitting for 8 months
> now.
>
> Chris and Kelly DeVoto
> gratefulded@netzero.net
> devoto@worldnet.att.net
>
> "What a long strange trip it's been..."...rh
>

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