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Date:   Wed, 24 Dec 2014 16:13:13 -0800
Reply-To:   Phil Zimmerman <philzimm1@SHAW.CA>
Sender:   Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:   Phil Zimmerman <philzimm1@SHAW.CA>
Subject:   Re: Trying to understand starter stuff adding a relay failure points
Comments:   cc: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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This list never fails to crack me up at an opportune time… vbg

Jim, your joke of the last remaining (failsafe) part of a Vanagon would be the spare tire… Priceless…. hah, ha, ha-ha….

I've camped with Dennis, long ago at WestRiver Westies in Vermont… Recall that crazy Wind/Rain Storm that year Dennis? Dennis is so wonderfully direct and concrete; always generous with his help and assistance. In a way, the spare is not a failure point… it's a spare tire… carried around as excess weight… Kinda like a boat anchor… worth nothing until one needs it!

Unless one still carries the original Continental 185SRx14 spare tire in the clam-shell. That's not a failsafe spare part, that's an accident waiting to happen…:-(

A toast to all Gerry Vanagon friends old and new… Merry Christmas and Seasons Greetings…

Phil Z on his rock off the West Coast -------------

Jim scribbled: It wouldn't be the first time that happened on this list ; ) Merry Christmas! Jim -------------- On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote: > The best of tires can and do fail! So if I can eliminate them I get rid of that failure point. > The spare doesn't affect me until one of the other fail, right? So why get rid of that one? > > I think I miss-read your joke. > Dennis


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