Date:         Mon, 10 Feb 2003 10:26:22 -0700
Reply-To:     SyncroWesty <SyncroWesty@ATTBI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         SyncroWesty <SyncroWesty@ATTBI.COM>
Subject:      Re: My Van Runs Now 245/75/16 Re: anything special I should do
              after              vans been sitting?
Comments: To: Derek Drew <derekdrew@RCN.COM>
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What, no engine conversion?!?! Kind of a half hearted effort huh:-)

BTW looking at that pic of your Syncro makes me feel giddy.  Got more?

Cory

>
> I also just for the heck of it changed my broken shifter and associated
> plastic parts, the transmission and front diff, all my gears, and the
> wheels, and the tires and VC and clutch and skidplate and some CVs and the
> front brake pads, caliphers, and rotors and sawed off a lot of my
> wheelwells and installed a front diff lock and changed fuel lines and did
> some rustproofing and changed all my springs and front shocks and also my
> rear trailing arms to 16" type. Changing the front lower control arm
> bushing swap was exciting or at least interesting (no I don't have the new
> ones yet). All I have to do now is a few heavy wacks on the back of my
> front wheelwells with a sledgehammer and I will be done
> with.....uhhhh....with about 60% of what I am doing here, but at least I
am
> on the road
http://users.rcn.com/derekdrew/vanagon/images/dereks245_75_16.jpg
>
> At 09:31 PM 2/9/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >If you mean the thing has been sitting a month, there is nothing to do,
> >except make sure there isn't a banana in the tailpipe.
> >
> >If it has been sitting 9 months or more, the list becomes much longer;
> >new fluids, filters, etc.
> >
> >Longer than a year or two without prep for being laid up, and the list
> >becomes copious, and a little expensive.
> >
> >How long are you talking about?
> >
> >Bringing ideas to life,
> >G. Matthew Bulley
> >  "Fax mentis incendium gloria culpum"
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
> >Of sleepingmonkey1
> >Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 9:18 PM
> >To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> >Subject: anything special I should do after vans been sitting?
> >
> >I have an 85 GL that is sitting until I come up with the dough to put on
> >some badly needed parts.  Is there anything I should do before I fire
> >her
> >up? (it is down about a month).
>
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