Date:         Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:05:20 -0400
Reply-To:     "Rob S." <iH8myISP@SUSCOM.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Rob S." <iH8myISP@SUSCOM.NET>
Subject:      Re: Disaster avoided - public service message.
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.BSF.4.58.0310140942290.58691@gull.us>
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Attention smokers:

this is why you shouldn't  throw your butts out the window.   You lazy
stinky slobs.  use the ashtray. like this guy said, you'll get used to
the smell of burnt nicotene in your car.  Hell it's been in your lungs
for decades.



>
>
>> It has been posted many times but, CHANGE YOUR FUEL LINES.
>
> Not just on Vanagons, either.  After test-driving a car I'm thinking of
> buying, I complained to the owner about a pronounced gasoline odor that
> seemed concentrated around the fuel tank area.  He later took it in to
> a
> mechanic, who found about half a dozen gas leaks, including some
> pinhole
> corrosion holes in the metal fuel lines.  The worst was apparently a
> leak
> in a hose at the fuel pump, near the tank, where fuel was literally
> spraying out.