Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 07:29:58 -0800
Reply-To: Gary Bawden <goldfieldgary@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Gary Bawden <goldfieldgary@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Strap a raft to the roof?
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Mr. Squirrel,
Just rope that puppy down and go! When it starts to go "floomp,
floomp, floomp", slow down a little bit. Enjoy your float!
Gary
>
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 06:37:39 -0700
> From: "Mike \"Rocket J Squirrel\"" <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: Strap a raft to the roof?
>
> Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>> your idea for a short trip is fine.
>> just need good tie-down points. ...
>> I like to mount inverted hooks in two spots on the right side of the van
>> ..
>> one near the rear vent up high, one on the pillar between sliding door
>> and front passenger's door ..up high, so I can tie large loads down to
>> those inverted hooks..
>
> How you mount them hooks? Sheet metal screws? Otherwise a fellow would
> have to pull the paneling loose to get behind them and put in
> nuts/washers. Smoosh some RTV behind the hooks to keep water out, maybe?
>
> Thanks to everyone for tolerating my questions about things like this.
> Many of you have years and years of experience working on automobiles,
> and doing swell stuff like welding, taking engines apart, drinkin' beers
> while skinnin' knuckles pulling ball joints, and otherwise being manly.
> We love our Westy for camping and I do what I can with my meager skills
> to improve it and do minor repairs, but I really don't have what you
> might call a background in the automotive sciences. I have tended to buy
> decent used cars, mainly imports, drive them until some expensive part
> fails, then buy another. Like that time I had a 17 year old 1982
> Mercedes sedan/boat which managed to get me to where I needed to go and
> then one day the mechanic said that the freeze plugs (that the right
> word?) in the engine were leaking and I'd better get rid of the car real
> soon. My past is littered with cars that were fairly junky when I bought
> them, and junkier still when I sold them. Smelled funny, too.
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
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