Date:         Tue, 9 Jun 2020 10:58:50 -0700
Reply-To:     Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: shout out to the list -- road-side repairs -- vacuum leak,
              duct tape
Comments: To: Gabriel Hourtouat <ghourtouat@gmail.com>
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Hopefully the Duct tape is not your final fix?



On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 10:55 PM Gabriel Hourtouat <ghourtouat@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Reading some of the recent threads has reminded me that you folks got me
> away and then back home again a few weeks ago, just by getting some common
> sense into me through the generous postings.
>
> Van started stalling in heavy traffic whenever I took my foot off the gas
> on our way out for a weekend.   I quickly learned to bump start it using
> the remaining forward motion; but checked it out at the next gas station
> and found a sizable vacuum leak, a rubber hose connecting the plenum bit on
> top of the engine to the pipes to the cylinders
>
> Prior to that day, I would not have known what a vacuum leak was.  It was
> because of this list that i applied myself to step out of my comfort zone.
> I then applied some duct tape over the hose which I had cleaned of excess
> dust and crud.
>
> Cheers to you,
> gab
>


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