Date:         Mon, 15 Mar 2004 22:30:32 -0600
Reply-To:     Paul & Becky Oliver <oliver8@TDS.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Paul & Becky Oliver <oliver8@TDS.NET>
Subject:      Re: " you fixed it with what?!"
Comments: To: Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
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Black pepper has been a quick (sometimes permanent) radiator repair for
years, my father told me he'd use it when a kid on his model "T",

How about beer in place of brake fluid (just to get home), and desiel fuel
instead of antifreeze, yea, right in the radiator (you gotta drain all the
water first, use only oil), Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffrey Earl" <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 2:50 PM
Subject: " you fixed it with what?!"


> While hurrying to pick-up his girlfriend from work in
> his '73 Beetle, my brother snapped the throttle cable.
> Rummaging around in the trunk, he found a bunch of
> fishing gear, including a spool of monofilament line.
> Tying the end of the line to the throttle arm, he
> carefully threaded the spool around the back seat and
> into the passenger compartment, finally attaching the
> other end to the driver's windshield visor. Gently
> tugging on the line, like a trucker on his air horn,
> he found he could control the throttle well enough to
> drive, even while shifting thru the gears.
> When his girlfriend complained that he was five
> minutes late, he simply muttered "Don't ask ..." and
> yanked on the string. Vroom, vroom!
>
> While bombing around in a lonely rural area with my
> buddy in his MG, the car's radiator sprang a leak. He
> quickly wheeled it into the parking lot of a tiny
> country grocery store and hurriedly purchased a pair
> of Morton salt-and-pepper shakers. He opened the
> radiator cap and poured about 1/4 of the ground black
> pepper into it, then capped it and started the engine
> again. As we watched, the tiny geyser of coolant
> squirting from the radiator slowed to a trickle and
> finally ceased entirely. We topped-up the coolant and
> drove away.
> As far as I know, he is still driving the MG with its
> black-pepper coolant clot, and I think the shaker of
> salt ended up in my Westy ...
>
> Jeffrey Earl
> 1983 diesel Westfalia "Vanasazi"
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