Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 12:02:06 -0500
Reply-To: "Peter T. Owsianowski" <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM>
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From: "Peter T. Owsianowski" <pnoceanwesty@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Trip Report and some Lucky misfortunes
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Man, did you dodge a bullet!
Scotty and I just did the changing o' plastic piece o' BS at the back
firewall on JoesVan. That piece cracked on my brother's '87 as it sat idling
in the driveway last year.
...maybe they are German engineered to fail at safe spots instead of on they
highway?
We followed your same route up to Busfusion in '04. Canada was beautiful,
the Canadians were fun friendly bus Volk and the Molsons and LaBatts were
cold!
Pete
'79 Westy "Aardvark"
'87 Westy "Joe's Van"
WWW.Busesbythebeach.com
On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Jeff Lincoln <magikvw@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Volks -
>
> Well, I just wanted to report that my son, Jack, and I took Grover on his
> longest traveled outing yet. About 900 miles round trip. We traveled from
> Lexington, MI to Watertown, NY to visit my sister's family and spend New
> Year with them.
>
> I am proud to say that Grover performed nearly flawlessly - with some minor
> poor running near Toronto - but very minor. We crossed to Canada at the
> Port
> Huron, MI / Sarnia, ON Blue Water bridge crossing and took the 402 / 401
> East all the way to the Thousand Islands border crossing (I don't recall
> the
> exact towns the bridge is in). We had great weather and beautiful Canadian
> scenery the entire trip. Took roughly 8 hours each way - those not driving
> a
> Vanagon can make it in about 7 but I kept it below 65mph the entire trip.
> We
> took the same path on our return trip but much of that was a night so the
> scenery wasn't quite as enjoyable.
>
> Needless to say I was very pleased at the buses performance - although I
> wasn't worried really it was still the longest haul yet and there was some
> minor anxiety in the back of my head.
>
> Now I say lucky misfortunes in the subject line because last night while
> going to meet my EX for the child exchange Grover decided to pop a fuel
> line
> and leak gas all over - I say lucky because there was no fire and this
> didn't happen during our NY trip. Seems to be leaking from the spot at the
> back of that damn plastic fitting that brings the fuel line through the
> "fire wall" (that may not be the proper term for that metal barrier but
> it's
> the best description I can give). It was too dark and cold to fix last
> night
> so I have to go retrieve the bus later. I'm not sure if it is a failed
> clamp, split line, or the plastic piece is broken. I'll know more later.
> Also, just to be clear I have recently inspected the fuel lines and all
> seemed well.
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
> '90 Carat (Grover)
> '86 (We call this one Parts)
> '78 Bus (Melissa) Patty's Bus
>
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