Date:         Sun, 26 Feb 2006 08:05:05 -0500
Reply-To:     Daniel Erlandson <danoer1@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Daniel Erlandson <danoer1@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Vanagon Science Degree
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> Date:    Sat, 25 Feb 2006 22:53:54 -0600
> From:    John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
> Subject: Re: blinking coolant light with full coolant
>
> For everyone who owns a Vanagon based vehicle - ownership is like
> going
> to college and studying for a degree. You read, read, read, and then
> read some more. Since the degree is in Vanagon Science, nothing is
> to be
> left unread just because it has no immediate application. Sooner or
> later you will need every bit of the information you have read
> about  -
> and hopefully digested. At the very least you should have references
> that trigger the brain as to where to go to find information for
> troubleshooting. The Vanagon  List is some of the best "Reference
> Material" you can get in pursuing that Bachelor's in Vanagon
> Science. So
> read, read, read.
>
>  The final exam is a practical test that will take place on a dark and
> rainy night on a back road half way between Nowhere and Anywhere USA.
> Guaranteed!!  You want to be knowledgable enough to have the right
> answers to the questions and finish the test fast, and get on down the
> road. :-)
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver

So if the van is running well then we've passed the test, gotten the
degree, and driving down the road...I want a diploma :).  I think
I'll frame the rusted out remains of the 1991 exhaust system that I
still have in the garage and make a label that says from the School
of Applied Torque Wrenches and Skinned Knuckles.

dan