Date:         Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:15:57 -0600
Reply-To:     Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Michael Sullivan <sandwichhead@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Yucatan trip report (not mine)
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OK, MacGyver...point taken. :-)

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Ed <email99@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Speaking of keeping moving with a mechanical failure, one morning I broke a
> Kugelfischer fuel injection pump belt on a '72 BMW 2002tii on the way to
> work.  Faced with being stranded in rush hour traffic with a totally
> inoperable engine, I wired the windshield washer pump wires to the cold
> start valve (an electric fuel spray valve in the intake plenum) and
> supplied
> pulses of gas to the engine by activating the washer pump switch.  I can't
> say that it ran smoothly or that shifting gears was easy (the washer switch
> was on the turn signal stalk on the RIGHT side of the steering column) but
> I
> made it back home and drove my other car to work, making it there only
> about
> 30 minutes later than normal.
>
> I don't have this BMW now but I kept it until a few years after I bought my
> Vanagon in '91 (required Vanagon content).
>



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Michael in San Antonio
91GL AT 'Gringo'