Date:         Thu, 22 May 2003 11:53:26 -0700
Reply-To:     Chris Radcliffe <chrisr_vanagon@MINDSPRING.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Chris Radcliffe <chrisr_vanagon@MINDSPRING.COM>
Subject:      Re: Organizing Vanagon Maintenance Information
Comments: To: Tom Forhan <fourwdvw@YAHOO.COM>
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For the rest of us internet troglodytes, "BTDT" means "Been There Done
That"... I think.  I had to do a Google search and drill around a bit until
the damn light bulb when on.

Sorry.  Early Friday.  I do think this is a great idea (Organizing Vanagon
Maintenance Information).  I don't have a lot of content to contribute but
would be glad to help test.  And you *will* want to test it for as many use
cases you can identify (including maintenance), before going "live"...
right? :-)

Chris Radcliffe
chris_radcliffe@mindspring.com
'90 Westy Auto "Blue Whale"


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Tom Forhan
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 7:03 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Organizing Vanagon Maintenance Information


A current thread on the syncro list got me thinking
about all the BTDT that have been posted at vanagon
and syncro over the years.

As the archives have grown its harder and harder to
find the very useful how-to posts that other have put
up as they worked their way through a proceedure in
the Bentley. If these posts could somehow be
recaptured and organized they would be much more
accessible and I presume the search load on the
vanagon archives would also decline.

So I thought it might be interesting for folks to look
at http://members.aol.com/c1j1miller/repair.html .

If you scroll down the page a bit, you will find a
BTDT section that is organized by Bentley section
indexes. I find this organization very helpful in
working on my Audi. For instance, see the comments and
photos I added on the Bentley heater box replacement:
http://members.aol.com/c1j1miller/climate.html#Heater%20blower


Anyway, just throwing the idea out there. We have a
tremendous amount of technical knowlege and experience
in the group, much of it already posted. This might be
a good model for making the information more readily
available.

Tom F.


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