Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:30:15 -0800
Reply-To: Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Joel Cort <joel_cort@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Re: If you could read French, But Of Course!
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Salut Benny, You have a great friggin' site! Awesome! Thanks!
I am a FROG from the old country. I grew up in Citroen van down by the river.....No that is not funny Ok,
I consider myself a quasi (that is Latin but used comonly in French for "almost") competent mechanic and understand the dark side of our beloved vans.
I can translate anything written in technical French to readable English. With the great pictures on Benny's place that should really make it easy.
I have notice that you Canadiens use a slightly different word than the French for some engine components and probably other car parts.
Example:
Can French "gasket de tetes"
Froggy French "Joint de Cullasse" not close at all
Go figure they've got a different word for everything! said Bill Murray
I did grow up working with my dad for 15 years in his VW repair shop. He cussed in French so I know those words too. "Zut" is a mild word.
I am here for you and this list. Let me know what you would like me to translate or redact.
By the way, if you do read French there is a great resource similar to Bentley from the group ETAI. There is a maintenance book on the Diesel Vanagons and one on the Air/Water cooled.
Sorry no Syncro. There is one also for the Eurovan and EV Diesel. These can be found under the Technical Reveiws or "Revue Techniques". I would bet that there is something like this in German too.
http://www.etai.fr/go_to.asp?go_m=pas&go_s=3
Cheers,
Joel Cort
89 Syncro Westy
Rochester NY
Westies at Watkins
----- Original Message ----
From: Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 8:51:18 AM
Subject: If you could read French
I spent 2 days on that page:
http://www.benplace.com/conversions.htm
Because i was tired explaining all the differences between
stock/rebuilt/semi rebuilt engine and conversions (2 that i like).
If anyone here is fully bilingual and want to translate this page i would
gladly make it available in English, but i'm to tired to do so now. I think
it as good tech info overall on one page.
I still use MS FrontPage to edit my page so most people have FP, i could
easily shoot you the Html
Anyway, let me know.
Ben
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