Date:         Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:26:58 -0700
Reply-To:     John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Healthiest way to lead an UnHealthy Vanagon lifestyle? (a
              long attempt at Phrydey humour)
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>
> So what's the "unhealthiest" thing(s) you've done, as regards your
> Vanagon, to keep it running, get it running, come to peace with it,
> make amends with it, or just "Keep The Love Alive"?
>
> Tasted every fluid on board, sometimes intentionally (to ID a puddle),
sometimes unintentionally (blorp! drip right in the mouth!), including the
grand old master of disgusting tasting automotive fluids, 90 weight gear oil
from the  differential. It was so bad I felt like sucking a dog turd to get
the taste out of my mouth. Now I always smell before tasting. My ruined
sense of smell can't detect most things, but it can at least detect that
whiff of sulfur that says "differential oil".

--
John Bange
'90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"