Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 14:46:55 -0400
Reply-To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: Joy Hecht's problem's solved?
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Gee, I'm getting pity! Poor me... :-)
Yeah, I do seem to be attracting hardware problems. My camera broke too. At least my computer works and my limbs are all in order.
The solution to my woes is in the works. Boston Bob is assembling my engine pronto (thank you, Bob). Budd Premack offered to pick it up in Boston (where he is with an RV and a Vanagon) and bring it to Michigan on his way back home to Minneapolis. (Thank you Budd!) Brien Dews and Billy (whose last name I don't know) have offered to do the transplant - in fact, Matilda now has a gaping hole where her old engine was. (I think they may be sick of me thanking them, it's getting redundant!) Brien's four-year-old Keagan is going to help - he's quite eager to get his tools onto Matilda. And meanwhile I'm staying in the apartment above Brien's shop where there happens to be wifi, too. Oh, and Brien towed Matilda to and from Buses by the Beach, where a lovely time was had by all. And where I was parked right next to Ed Duntz who started this thread, so I finally got to meet him.
Are Vanagon people really nice or what? My friends don't understand why I keep driving Matilda despite all my problems, but I do!
Oh, and Matilda's engine won't be converted to scrap metal. It'll become some future Boston Bob engine - in fact, one of your vans might get Matilda's engine as a transplant! She has great heart, Matilda does, so you'll get some of it if you get her engine.
Joy
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Joy Hecht
and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
For musings about life and the vanadventures:
http://users.rcn.com/jhecht/gypsy
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:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
:::Of Rocket J Squirrel
:::Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 5:25 PM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: Joy Hecht's problem's solved?
:::
:::On 5/19/2005 11:38 AM Joy Hecht wrote:
:::
:::<snip>
:::
:::>Unfortunately yesterday I had an old coolant hose leak on the highway in
:::Indiana, and by the time the buzzer alerted me to the van overheating I'd
:::blown my engine.
:::>
:::<snip>
:::
:::Poor Joy. Is she having trouble, or what?
:::
:::In the interest of learning from the experience of others, is there
:::anything a fellow can do if his Vanagon springs a major coolant leak
:::like that? Her buzzer (does my 84 have one? I don't think so) sounded
:::too late to prevent conversion of engine into scrap metal.
:::
:::--
:::
:::Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
:::71 Type 2: the Wonderbus
:::83.5 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
:::KG6RCR
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