Date:         Tue, 15 Nov 1994 23:23:51 -0500 (EST)
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Joe Clark <joeclark@freenet.scri.fsu.edu>
Subject:      Bubba insults and Monster snaprings (at length)

On Tue, 15 Nov 1994 vanagon@lenti.med.umn.edu wrote:

(Well, OK, but I get this in digest form and I'm using Unix PINE, alright?)

dcarment@ccs.carleton.ca (David Carment) spewed forth:
> 
> All this talk of catalytic heaters, the lack of heat in air-cooled
> Vanagons, the impending cold winter and the need for making this a better
> world, got me thinking about the possible choices of heat available and
> their practical application in air-cooled Vnagaon busses. Here are some ideas:

> Choices: 

[Snip -- ah say, snip]

> h) move to Florida 
> upside - Marlin fishing 
> downside - may become a bubba 
> 
Indee -- ah say, indeed, suh!  Frankly, your ethnic sensitivity
shows need of some schoolin'.  Howevah, I am willin' to ignore your lack
of good mannahs, especially in light of the fact that should you choose --
as have several million of your blue-skinned northern brethren -- to
repair to these southern climes as our genetically superior ancestors did
lo these many generations ago, please do rest assured that, so long as you
select a place south of I-4 (even, sadly, many places north of it), you
are sure to be among like-minded, black-speedoed, dunlop-bellied Canadjuns
-- with nary a bubba in sight. 

Joe "Earl" Clark

And, returning to Standard American English,

Dann-o <danno@csd.uwm.edu> maintained:

> In a previous post, it was said that the wheel bearings don t come out to 
> be greased.  It is very easy to remove the bearings.  First, remove the 

Yes -- if you call removing 12 crud-covered, heat-welded cap screws per side 
easy :-).

> driveshaft.  Then, drive out the stub axle, finally remove the snap rings 
> on both sides of the bearing carrier.  Now, the bearings will come out!
> 

OY! As I recall from doing this job on my now-departed (snif) '68 Westy, 
these are the _archetypal_ snap-rings, the mothers-of-all-etc., the 
eaters-of-cheap-snap-ring-pliers and fliers-off-in-your-flinching-face 
big muthas.  Just to frighten the uninitiate...

But they do come out, and (unghh, twist, OK) it _is_ worthwhile to have a 
look at those bearings as long as you've gone that far.

Joe "Snap-Ring-Protruding-From-Forehead" Clark
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Joe Clark                                          Where there's no sense,
joeclark@freenet.scri.fsu.edu                          there's no feeling.
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