Date:         Fri, 11 Oct 2002 07:27:26 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Duh! What gear we in?
Comments: cc: wetwesties@yahoogroups.com
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This is one of those days when I woke up at 4 am for no reason.
Rather than go back to bed and roll a few miles trying to get back to
sleep I decided to answer a few E mails and read up on the Solex carbs
I'm about to rebuild.
Time passes and I decide to make a rocket trip to the grocery about 6 AM.
I get in my 83 Westy and crank her up, buckle up to stop the screeching
seat belt and shift into reverse ......... No Reverse?
I give it a few more tries and mutter under my breath 'why me lord'?
I know this van is going to be in the wrong place even if I'm going to
work on it so I get my flashlight and lay under the van and manipulate
the shift rod into what I know to be reverse position.
I roll out of "Oh! Hell!" position and sit up noting that I'll never use
molybdenum grease on that shift mechanism again.
Reaching for a paper towel and wringing my hands hard around the entire
roll to get the grease off I notice that reverse on my 83 Westy is
forward and over to the left.
Just like the picture on the shifter knob!.
Gee! Should have considered that all that fun I've been having in that
screaming 66 Splittie warped my mind.
Splittie reverse is over to the left and backwards all the way.
Me thinks I got too many VWs in the drive.

Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia

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