Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 15:14:20 -0700
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Okay, now THIS is embarrassing!
In-Reply-To: <4FB422AD.2090908@turbovans.com>
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If I was working in your shop under your direction I'd have a much
better-maintained Mellow Yellow.
But I don't /wanna/ have to figure it out. I just want to go camping!
Out of here tomorrow until Sunday afternoon. All by myself in BLM land.
--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
Bend, Ore.
"Mellow Yellow," 1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in
San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.
On 05/16/2012 02:57 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
> hi..
> if you were here in my shop working under my direction ..
> I'd make you figure it out ..
> it really is very, very simple.
>
> tip ..hook the forward upper ends first....... hinge area 2nd.
> tip 2 ..one bar is for the left side, one the right.
> it's impossible to put them in wrong even, at least that I've ever found.
>
> you just wanted an excuse for more attention !
>
> I don't think there's a picture in Bentley .
>
>
>
> On 5/16/2012 10:42 AM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>> (I reckon I should be used to asking simple questions.)
>>
>> I'm doing the final reassembly after installing the radiatior. Last
>> thing: spare tire carrier.
>>
>> It consists of three (3) parts, excluding the bolt. One (1) clamshell,
>> and two (2) curvy metal arms. Oh yeah, also two (2) little clippy things
>> to keep the curvy metal arms from falling out of the hinges.
>>
>> Trouble is I can't figure out how to orient the two curvy metal arms. I
>> know they don't go under the clamshell, but the only other way I can fit
>> them is up from the hinges, through the notches at the rear of the
>> clamshell, and above the tire. But the hooky things at the leading edges
>> bang into the frame when I lift the clamshell to lock it in.
>>
>> There's probably a picture in Bentley but I'll be darned if I can figure
>> out what Repair Group the spare tire holder assembly might belong to.
>>
>> --
>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>> Bend, Ore.
>> 1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
>> 1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in
>> San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.
>>
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