Date:         Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:19:34 -0500
Reply-To:     Hans Achter <hansachter@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         Hans Achter <hansachter@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: What I'd like to see in a Vanagon...
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That's a novel idea, but I might have a better one...
I always carry three or four bottles of gas-line water remover (Heet or Christy or the like) under
the back seat.  They just contain alcohol, methanol or isopropyl usually.  If I know I'm not going
to make it or at the first sign of hesitation I shut off the van and pull over and dump them all
into the gas tank.  I've used that trick several times to get 5 or 10 miles more.  You have to dump
them in when there is a little fuel left in the tank - the engine has trouble running on it
straight.
It's much better than carrying a can of gasoline because the narrow bottles store easily, don't
leak, they are pretty safe, are fairly cheap, and it doesn't seem to degrade like gasoline even a
year or more of storage.
I guess it gets all the water out of the tank to boot!
-Hans

----- Original Message -----
From: "No Name Available" <Trvlr2001@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 3:27 PM
Subject: What I'd like to see in a Vanagon...


Well folks,
I just spent the last hour walking to a gas station.
Not much fun,
Especially when I had a substantial amount of cash in my pockets !
Is there any way we can hook up a couple
of high voltage wire to the drivers seat,
that would shock the s*** out of me,
so I would pull over & get some gas???? :o)
seriously, how about a light first, then a buzzer???
How could we fix this up?
thanks all,
John C.
SLC, UT..
85 Westy
90 bad bus !@!1$%$^@$#%^&