Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 13:32:41 -0800
Reply-To: James Walldow <jwall@ARCTIC.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: James Walldow <jwall@ARCTIC.NET>
Subject: Re: OO TT
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sheeeeeeeeshhhhhhhh.........not a big deal....so some are better
spellers than others..........plenty of other things to worry about.
like working on our vans....right on eric........opps.Eric....james..
Eric Zeno wrote:
>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
>>>
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