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Date:         Sat, 1 Jul 2006 15:41:38 -0700
Reply-To:     Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Michael Elliott <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Hatch strut - D'oh! Bent it.
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Bent it like a plastic drinking straw.

The driveway is sloped so I have blocks under Mellow Yellow's tail end to roughly level the van. Prior to blowing the driveway with the leaf blower, I go to close all the doors and windows. The rear hatch is open, and out of reach. I'm not real tall. So I grab the lowest part I can reach, which is the skinny part of a strut. What can I say? All I can say it that it seemed like a good idea at the time. I pulled down a bit and the metal rod bent like a Viagra-free organ. I stood there thinking:

1. Golly -- I hardly pulled on it . . . that thing must be made of pretty soft stuff!, and 2. There are none of these in town and we're going camping on Tuesday. I better fix this or I'll be hoisting the hatch up with all my might and propping it open with a stick. 3. I have the brain of a peanut.

I roughly straightened it out . . . seems to be working.

-- Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott 71 Type 2: the Wonderbus 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano KG6RCR


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