Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 09:58:13 -0700
Reply-To: Mike Miller <mwmiller6@ATT.NET>
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From: Mike Miller <mwmiller6@ATT.NET>
Subject: Re: was: Free Rims, now: I'll pay YOU to take'em
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Oh, boy! That means you'd really like to hear about my gas 2.1 to AAZ to TDI conversion and the various trials and tribulations associated with this?
Latest woe: Drive shaft [new VW] destroyed in less than a 1000 miles of driving with an incorrectly mounted AAZ, rebuilt replacement vibrates from 10 mph to 35 mph, maybe beyond but I gave up at that point. So now I get to borrow/buy a driveshaft from BenT, and if works, hooray, if not GoWesty is bringing one of theirs to SyncroFest for me so I get to get back down in the dirt doing drive shaft replacement, at least one, at syncrofest.
Can there be more fun? Can't wait to find out.
Oh, yeah, getting lousy fuel mileage on the TDI, or maybe I am. Maybe not.
Feel better about free wheels [note the mechanically correct usage] now?
Mike from Cotati
On Apr 11, 2013, at 9:45 AM, OlRivrRat wrote:
> 40 out of the last 42 posts have been about FreeRims & pretty much JunkRims at that ~ Seems to be the MagicCure for all other Vanagon related maintenance issues
>
> ORR ~ DeanB
>
>
> On 11 Apr , 2013, at 10:25 AM, Aristotle Sagan wrote:
>
>> Stay?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Phil Zimmerman <philzimm1@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:47:28 -0700
>>> Reply-To: Phil Zimmerman <philzimm1@SHAW.CA>
>>>
>>> Phil Z Typed:
>>> Shoot, this isn't working out to good… eh?
>>>
>>> Darn..Guys…
>>>
>>> It's in the details… Good planing sucks...
>>> I end up at Mark's place in Oceanside, California (gotta spell it out in
>>> full cuz I'm from CA… Canada)
>>> with 18 free steel rims.. and already in arrears for about 150 gallons of
>>> gasoline.
>>> 2,200 Km from home… forgot to include the return trip. Duh!
>>> Now I gotta get home with my 18 free wheels…
>>> Somehow this feels like managing the national debt of both our countries…
>>> Oceanside is a great place… don't get me wrong here…
>>> But these 18 Vanagon steel rims are not worth anything until I get them
>>> home to CA where I can sell them
>>> for a killer profit.
>>>
>>> Idea's..?
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Phil Z.
>>> under a rock off the west coast
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Where ever you are, there you be. Unless you're driving my van, in which
>> case, you ain't got there yet.
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