Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2013 17:01:33 -0700
Reply-To: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Early Friday Post--don't open until September 6
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"How much time do vanagon list members spend reading per week I wonder?"
Probably a bell curve, Scott. Some read a lot, some a little. Many in
the middle.
--
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.
On 09/05/2013 04:57 PM, Scott Daniel wrote:
> It' sbeen standard now in many US model diesel cars..
> just guessing, perhaps at least 6 years , for Mercedes Benz dieselshere.
>
> called 'urea injection' I believe.
> you can pee in the diesel fluid tank in an emergency.
>
> recently a diesel ambulance would not go due to shortage of that fluid,
> another abulance had to be called ....it resulted in a patient death
> ...prettysure I read that recently.
>
> How much time do vanagon list members spend reading per week I wonder ?
>
>
>
> On 9/5/2013 4:16 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>> Shows how modern I am. I have heard of the chemical urea, but had no idea
>> it had any use in a diesel engine.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Scott Daniel
>> <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>wrote:
>>
>>> You are not familiar with Urea , a liquid that most modern US model
>>> diesel cars and light trucks need these days ?
>>> Did you google it ?
>>> Might learn readily by doing that.
>>>
>>> Chevagon ?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/5/2013 3:49 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>>>
>>> I will be traveling from early until late tomorrow, but I just have
>>> to have
>>> input on this matter ASAP!
>>>
>>> I'm looking at a mailer that Chevrolet sent me advertising a Chevy Cruze
>>> Clean Turbo Diesel, and the brochure compares it favorably (of
>>> course) with
>>> a VW TDI.
>>>
>>> But here's the part that gets me:
>>>
>>> In the section that explains Chevy's 2-Year Schedule Maintenance
>>> Program,
>>> there's this entry under the "free" category:
>>>
>>> "Diesel Exhaust Fluid Refills"
>>>
>>> Huh? Is this to be filed with Johnson Rods and Overhead Muffler Bearing
>>> pranks? What is a "Diesel Exhaust Fluid Refill," and what exactly is
>>> Diesel
>>> Exhaust Fluid?
>>>
>>> Anxious to find out what my Diesel Westy is missing,
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> PS What a Vanagon conversion this Chevy engine would make if it is any
>>> good! I have heard nothing but good from people I know who have
>>> driven them.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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