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Date:         Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:22:17 -0800
Reply-To:     Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
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From:         Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Death Valley
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--snip-- > I don't want to start a "here's my tool list" thread > because that's been done a gazillion times, but is there such a list > published online? --snip--

Back when Joy had started her trek and was beginning to have troubles with Matilda I was thinking that for 'folks like her' (the mechanical novice) it would be useful to have a basic Vanagon tool list. I thought if you used the maintenance schedule as a starting point, you could list the tools necessary for each job, and by the end you would then have a list of those tools necessary to do most of what you would ever need to do on the van. I suspect that it would wind up being like any fairly comprehensive basic tool kit you could buy but it would be interesting to see it and have it broken down by job. You could then take the list, if you were so inclined, and assemble a 'Vanagon tool box', or fill in the blanks on the tools you have.

Of course for the Vanagon there are other things that belong in the 'maintenance list' that aren't going to be in the manual (like replacing the fuel lines), so they would have to be added in, and depending on who was assembling the list even something like that might require additional tools such as the spring-clamp tool. Another thing that came to mind was the tool for the CV bolts.

I didn't have time to pursue it but it comes to mind now and then- if we made a list that was a combination of lists, 'what you should do to your van immediately after purchase', 'the modified routine maintenance list' and the list of the tools necessary to do each job (and thereby a comprehensive tool list) it would probably be a great help, particularly to the new owners that show up and those that have had their vans long enough to realize that they've purchased the automotive equivalent of a Great Dane.

Cya, Robert


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