Is it Monday? Are the Perseids going to be any good this year? Thursday night at midnight (PDT) the show should start. Anyway, I replaced the backup light on my 81 this weekend. An easy task. The old switch was working electrically, but it needed about 1/4 inch deflection before it shorted. Obviously that was not enough on this 13 year old transmission. The new one that I got from local VW FLAPS (Kohl_Weiss) was $10 and turns on with only about 1 mm deflection. It sure is going to be nice backing into the ***cliffside*** camping areas with some backup lights! By the way I changed the tranny fluid as well, and found a nice assortment of metal flakes attached to the magnetic drain plug. Oh boy. I wonder how long it will last. Right now it will slip out of first gear on a downgrade, but that is really the only sign of wear. The shifting is a little loose but I think that is mainly the linkage. Any thoughts? Finally, I seem to accumulate a good amount of dust in the engine compartment after travelling down dirt roads. I have looked for air intake leaks with carb cleaner and have tried to seal them all, but I am concerned that some of this dust will end up where it don't belong. How much dust is "normal"? And don't tell me to stay off dirt roads! Monday it is.
John Huguenard hugie@lindy.stanford.edu
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