Date:         Fri, 25 Apr 2003 05:03:03 -0700
Reply-To:     Steve W <croatoa@YAHOO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Steve W <croatoa@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Fwd: Re: OO  TT
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Maybe we should change the official language of
the list to Esperanto?  LOL  I can empathize with
individuals for which English is not their first
language.  It is a tricky one.
--- Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET> wrote:
> Date:         Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:43:47 -0400
> From:         Eric Zeno <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
> Subject:      Re: OO  TT
> To:           vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
> Tom,
>     "why make readers struggle to read what
> you're trying to say?"
>
>      I'm sure this is not intentional.  There
> are a lot of good people
> here that have a ton of skills with Vanagons.
> To bad we all
> have to have english skills also,  to
> communicate in this fashion.
>      I'm probably one of the biggest offenders.
>   Why?  Not because
> I'm trying to make people struggle.  It's
> because I want others
> to see that without good english,  you  should
> not let it stop
> your entire life.  I know to many good people
> that will not
> participate in many things because they are
> embarrassed
> about there reading and english skills.  This
> is just sad.
>       I also have a BIG objection with english.
>  I have used logic
> in every way to learn about, and study most
> anything.  You
> can always learn some rule or find out about
> the history of
> something to figure out why things are the way
> we have it
> today.   But engish?  Does any one have a rule
> to follow
> that can tell me when and why  the word
> "thought" has a G H T
> on the end.    I spell it "thru"  .....screw
> english
>             Good thing its friday.
>
>           Eric
>
> Tom Young wrote:
>
> > I have a problem with posts with no caps and
> sketchy punctuation.  If you
> > want help, why make readers struggle to read
> what you're trying to say?
> >
> > Everything else being equal, there's no
> reason why new heads, in and of
> > themselves, would cause an engine to run
> extremely rich.  I suppose I could
> > conjure up scenarios where there was a
> specific problem with the old heads,
> > or injectors, or something,  that was
> compensated for by turning up the
> > fuel/air mixture and, once you had good heads
> in place, the rich fuel/air
> > mixture now reared its ugly head.  But to
> answer your direct question, no.
> > Now you need to find out why it's running
> rich when it wasn't before, I
> > assume.
> >
>
---------------------------------------------------------------
> > Tom Young                       '81 Vanagon
> > Lafayette, CA 94549         '82 Westfalia
> >
>
---------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Reggie Rainard" <reelax27@YAHOO.COM>
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2003 6:40 PM
> > Subject: 1990 vanagon heads
> >
> > > hi all,
> > >   i have a 1990 vanagon with a near new
> engine (55,000
> > > miles) and i put new heads on it (old heads
> from
> > > engine were used previously). i managed to
> put
> > > everything back togather, oil water (in
> place of
> > > antifreeze to check that it was water
> tight) and the
> > > car turned over with no problem. as soon as
> it turned
> > > over it would run really rich and then
> choke and
> > > barely stay runnin, is this a normal
> occurance when
> > > you first start up your car after haveing
> the heads
> > > replaced?
> > >
> > >                               thanks,
> > >                               Reggie
> Rainard
> > >                               Wheaton MD
> > >
> > >
>
__________________________________________________
> > > Do you Yahoo!?
> > > The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier.
> Bingo
> > > http://search.yahoo.com


=====
Steve
croatoa@yahoo.com

__________________________________________________
Do you Yahoo!?
The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo
http://search.yahoo.com