Date:         Tue, 31 Oct 2006 23:28:23 -0800
Reply-To:     Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET>
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From:         Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET>
Subject:      Re: [T2] Scary Halloween pics
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That first picture - that's how you end up by the time you make it to the
tollbooth on the Coquihalla Canyon hill when driving an air-cooled vanagon.

Reminds me of a story from Newfoundland - a woman was riding the Newfy
"Bullet"  - a very small and slow narrow-gauge train that once ran across
the island and was forever being displaced by rutting moose. At one point a
woman in a panic told the conductor that she was going into labour. The
conductor grew angry with her, telling her she never should have gotten on
the bullet in her condition. She replied "But sorr, I weren't in this
condition when I got on!" Riding an air cooled is kinda like that.


On 10/31/06 5:27 PM, "Greg Potts" <greg@pottsfamily.ca> wrote:

> Boo!!!
>
>
> Well, if that didn't scare you, maybe this pic will:
> http://www.pottsfamily.ca/westfakia/Scarypics/Scarydriver.jpg
>
> But here's a scarier pic: it's from the #3/4 cylinder head of the
> engine that hauled us back from John Brown's Buses:
> http://www.pottsfamily.ca/westfakia/Scarypics/3-4CylinderHead.jpg.
> There's no sign of the valve seat other than two dents on the head
> and a single gouge on the top of the piston.
>
> I'm pretty sure there's more spooky stuff inside the case, but I
> haven't gotten that deep into it yet. If my guess is right the cam
> wasn't indexed to the crank properly.
>
>
> Happy Trails,
>
> Greg Potts
> 1973/74/75/77/79 Westfakia "Bob the Tomato"
> www.pottsfamily.ca/westfakia
> www.busesofthecorn.com
>
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