Date:         Wed, 19 May 2010 19:11:55 -0700
Reply-To:     Shawn Wright <vwdiesels@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Shawn Wright <vwdiesels@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: The Best Rational for New Seals
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Wow... I guess you guys didn't grow up in farm country!

I grew up surrounded by dairy farms, so I'm used to it. Although I do find
chicken manure pretty foul (or is that fowl?) - try shovelling a pickup load
of that for the garden!

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 4:10 PM, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:

> I was on I-40 going to Albuquerque a few years ago - passed through
> Amarillo - and out on the west side of town the highway went by the
> stock yards. The air was so foul with ammonia from the accumulated
> rotting and decaying cattle dung and urine that you could not breathe.
> It was horrific. It didn't matter what I did - there was no keeping it
> out of the van. I covered several miles before getting out of that cloud
> of stench. Couldn't breathe, eyes burned, bronchial tubes constricted
> and I went into an asthmatic attack with  wheezing, sneezing and
> coughing.  I drove on another hundred miles before I began to recover
> and it took until the next day before I was completely back to normal.
> Any person with real asthma would have been in serious trouble going
> through that. Made me want to avoid north Texas entirely. I will say
> that going back that way two years later there was no problem.
>
> John
>
>
> John Rodgers
> Clayartist and Moldmaker
> 88'GL VW Bus Driver
> Chelsea, AL
> Http://www.moldhaus.com
>
>
> On 5/19/2010 5:13 PM, Michael Sullivan wrote:
>
>> I actually prefer hogs and cattle over ammonia and sulphur that I
>> frequently
>> experience.  Also, beach smells are good.  My younger brother used to like
>> the smell of gas...don't worry, he turned out pretty good(retiring as
>> Major
>> in Air Force next month).
>> Michael in San Antonio
>> 91GL Weekender AT 2.1L 'Gringo'
>> 73 Beetle
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:06 PM, John Rodgers<inua@charter.net>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>  Ever been in the South in summer and stuck behind a Kenworth haulin'
>>> hawgs?? How sweet it is!!!(yeeetch!)
>>>
>>> John Rodgers
>>> Clayartist and Moldmaker
>>> 88'GL VW Bus Driver
>>> Chelsea, AL
>>> Http://www.moldhaus.com<http://www.moldhaus.com/>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 5/19/2010 3:49 PM, Matt Thyer wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>  Last week I was calculating how much it might cost me to replace all the
>>>> seals on Zeno.  The windows rattle around a bit when I hit highway
>>>> speeds
>>>> and most of the door seals are a bit cracked in places and certainly not
>>>> perfect.  I grabbed all the part numbers and prices from GoWesty and
>>>> tossed
>>>> these into a spreadsheet and was amazed that this little sub-project
>>>> might
>>>> run so high.  Its only rubber, really that much?  So I parked the
>>>> spreadsheet on my laptop and decided to deal with seal replacement when
>>>> I
>>>> had the spare clams enough to complete the project.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This morning on my way over the pass and into work I turned off I-90 at
>>>> North Bend and took HWY 202 into the office.  I like to get off the big
>>>> Interstate systems when I'm able and the curvy highway to Redmond from
>>>> North
>>>> Bend is actually a joy to drive.  I drove Zeno through the town of
>>>> Snoqualmie Falls and then started past the hotel and the damn adjacent
>>>> to
>>>> the Falls when I happened to pass through an invisible cloud of stench.
>>>>  At
>>>> first I thought the septic system of the hotel had backed up or
>>>> something.
>>>> Even though I was getting further away from the hotel the stench
>>>> persisted.
>>>> Nay, it got worse as I drove down the hill.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Just at the bottom of the Snoqualmie grade I discovered why the smell
>>>> wasn't
>>>> dissipating.  A tractor trailer was pulling a side dumper of poop.
>>>>  Other
>>>> than to say that it was really smelly, I'm not sure what kind of dung it
>>>> might have been, but it did make my eyes water and the only reason I got
>>>> out
>>>> of that cloud of stink was because I pulled off the road to sneeze for a
>>>> while.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Lesson learned, the cost of new rubber seals is not that bad when
>>>> compared
>>>> to the cost of replacing a wardrobe and all the upholstery in the van
>>>> every
>>>> time one finds oneself stuck behind such an oversized load.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Matt Thyer
>>>>
>>>> http://zenoswagen.wordpress.com/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>


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Shawn Wright