Okay, I'm giving my van a new lease on life . . . with conditions. I've never had another vehicle have such catastrophic failures that would leave me stranded the way the Vanagon does. Mind you, one person's definition of catastrophic will be different from another's. When I take the van camping, I don't load ALL of my tools to make every possible repair on the road (like ruptured coolant hoses), I'm not usually traveling near a decent shop, and not usually on weekdays. So I'm going to finally replace ALL of the coolant hoses and fuel lines. My plan then is to have certain parts on-board that, should they fail, would mean a dead van, but they being parts I could replace on the road. I'm starting with the list below and wonder what you all would add to it (or take off): 1) Fuel pump 2) Ignition switch 3) ECU 4) Ignition coil (though I've never had one actually fail...take off?) 5) Belts I'm thinking this might prove useful to someone else too, who knows? So, what do you all think? Marc P. PS--I ain't talking about rods being thrown threw the crankcase here. BTDT |
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