Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 12:44:40 -0500
Reply-To: rodney.woten@LENNOXIND.COM
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From: Rodney Woten <rodney.woten@LENNOXIND.COM>
Subject: Re: Thank you to the list, wet engine & listmember sightings.
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Yeah, but it's a dry heat...right??? Actually, I feel for ya. It was plenty hot during our trip and our A/C isn't working yet. I would have gladly sent you some of our rain, though.
Please allow me to correct myself, I may have my terminology mixed up. The EVC's I'm referring to are actually the early Westfalia conversions of the Eurovan. They have the pop-top, and now that I think about, one of those Westy Eurovans we saw was silver. During our trip we did see a few of the Rialta conversions, I guess my Westfalia bias let me forget to mention those. Strangely enough Winnebago converts these at the plant just a few hours north of me. We actually see quite a few of the Rialtas around here...being so close to the source and all. I've talked to a few of the guys around our plant that have seen Winnebago's Rialta operation and they say it is quite interesting. Being in manufacturing, I usually jump at the chance to see others' processes, but that opportunity hasn't presented itself yet. Here's to hopin'!
Thanks for the well wishes!
Rod & Laura Woten
'87 Westy
Des Moines, Iowa
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Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 12:18 PM
To: Woten, Rodney
Subject: Re: Thank you to the list, wet engine & listmember sightings.
Glad the trip turned out okay.
EVC's were converted by Winnebago and only come in white.
Rain? What's that?
Jerry (in Arizona, where I haven't seen rain in months and a heat emergency has been
declared)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rodney Woten" <rodney.woten@LENNOXIND.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: Thank you to the list, wet engine & listmember sightings.
First of all, let me give a big hearty thanks to the list. On the return for our Mt.
Rushmore trip last weekend, our van failed to start in the parking lot of Cabela's in
Mitchell, S.D. Luckily I remembered the discussions about the starter solenoid
sticking. Based on the symptoms our van was exhibiting, I was pretty sure this was
the case. I tapped the solenoid a few times and, sure enough, it fired right up.
Were it not for the collective wisdom of the list, I might still be stuck in that
parking lot. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
Now for the second item, Thursday night, on our way to The Black Hills we got caught
in a terrible thundershower between Sioux City, IA and Sioux Falls, SD. The engine
got wet enough that I had to constantly restart the van to keep it running. When I
finally made it to a town I opened the engine compartment and everything looked dry.
I assume something on the bottom of the engine was getting wet enough to cause the
electrical problems I was experiencing. My question is where should I start checking
to prevent this problem in the future? Once everything dried out, it ran great, but
I'd like to not have to cower in fear anytime rain is threatening. What would be some
good keywords to search the archives with??? I'd like to try and have it fixed before
we take it on RAGBRAI.
And the last item. Our trip started out rather uneventfully...vanagon-wise. It
wasn't until we saw an EVC on Friday morning the we finally made VW contact. We had a
blue westy, similar to ours, pull into the Rapid City KOA campground, where we stayed,
on Saturday night. Could either of these been list members??? We spotted several
other EVC's on the way home. Strangely enough, they were all white???? We also
encountered a brown, two-tone Westy with 2 kayaks on top around the Dexter/Stuart area
along I80 in Iowa. Were any of these listees??? Were any listees in the Rapid City
or I90 area over the 4th of July weekend??? We waved at everyone we saw. Let us know
if it was one of you.
Thanks again!!!!
Rod & Laura Woten
'87 Westy
Des Moines, Iowa
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