Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 06:53:44 -0800
Reply-To: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: Roadside Troubles while on Vacationing
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>(yes, you still have to pay even though being
>pushed by CHP!)
Just as you still have to pay for 4 hours parking at
the Newark NJ airport even though you were just
picking up your wife and have the police report
documenting the timeline of the vehicle breakin that
occurred while you were there.
Stephen
--- Keith Ovregaard <kovregaard@COMCAST.NET> wrote:
> I've had a few "events" that forced changes in past
> trips in my 84
> Westy and 90 Westy Syncro. More in my diesel PU, but
> those stories are
> for another time. Here are a few:
>
> 84 Westy:
>
> Head gasket leak- blowing coolant out the overflow
> bottle onto the
> windshields of all who followed me on I-5 north
> coming into Portland.
> Temp gauge was spiking intermittently, managed to
> limp into Beaverton's
> VW dealer for a new gasket. Cost: $0 (BBB recall)
>
> Tranny pilot bearing fried. Again, visiting family
> in Oregon when
> shifting became impossible. AAA towed to the Rabbit
> Hutch in Tualatin
> for tranny rebuild. Cost: about $1200! ouch
>
> Vanagon Syndrome. Sporadic loss of power on various
> weekend trips.
> Managed to keep it going until I got it to Kuhn
> Automotive in Fairfax,
> CA where they install new AFM, plugs, wires, cap,
> rotor and tank seals
> (leaked after filling). Cost: a lot!
>
> Fuel pump died. While climbing that steep road
> before Jackson Hole the
> engine died. Fuel pump way noisy. Old couple pulled
> over to help. I was
> amazed because the guy couldn't even get out of the
> truck (he was on
> oxygen). His wife gets out to see if I needed any
> advice from the
> hubby! How cool is that? Let the pump cool and fired
> it back up. Going
> down the long steep incline to Jackson the engine
> was redlined most of
> the way in 2nd gear and the brakes where getting
> toasty, I'm sure. At
> the bottom, I stepped on the gas and a huge
> smoke-screen of blue smoke
> was blowing from the exhaust. Oil sucked in thru the
> valve guide seals.
> Engine dies again outside of Aspen. Could have
> waited to cool, but let
> AAA tow us in. Local FLAPS wanted about $380!
> Fedexed new one from
> Europarts for $168
>
> Misc roadside failures:
> rotor/cap fouled (twice), rear shocks blown, crack
> exhaust manifold and
> broken bracket, windshield leak, right rear body
> damage (twice in same
> spot!), forgot to torque CV shaft bolts and the
> shaft dropped inside
> the "cave" on the Golden Gate Bridge!. Pushed by
> CHP. Cost: fined by
> the toll both sensors (yes, you still have to pay
> even though being
> pushed by CHP!)
>
> 90 Westy
>
> Vanagon Sydrome (again!) Capacitor fix to the AFM,
> new Oxy sensor, new
> temp ll sensor, repositioned AFM wiper, check all FI
> parts with digi
> meter, test fuel pressure, test idle control parts,
> pull throttle
> body/idle switch and the switch tested OK (most of
> the time!) so
> replaced with new. Fixed! Cost: $68
>
> Drive shaft vibration. Replaced with new slip-yoke
> shaft. Cost: $495
>
> Looking forward (sort of) to the next Vanagon
> adventure! I must be
> sick, but I'm in good company here!
>
>
>
> Keith O.
> 90 Westy Syncro "VikingWagen"
> Past VeeDubs in the family
> 1984 Westy "Brownie"
> 1980 PU diesel
> 1979 Rabbit
> 1963? 23 window Splitty
> 1965 Bus
> 1969 Bus
> 1959 Bug
>
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