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Date:         Thu, 1 Dec 1994 06:22:26 -0700
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From:         mtooley@indirect.com (Matt Tooley)
Subject:      Re: New member's starting problem

At 06:41 PM 11/30/94 CST, David Kao wrote: >>> >>>I drove about 4 miles from work to that same darned bank machine, turned >>>the van off briefly, and it refused to start again. It sits there now as >>>I wait for both of us to cool off. Can anyone help?

> >I decided to switch gas!!! I switched from Arco to Shell. The problem hasn't >bothered me since then (for about 2 months now). Shell costs a lot more. >Ouch!!! It is about $.10 more per gallon here in San Jose. > >David Kao > > My brother who had a '91 Camper said that once he didn't fill up with Supreme gas. A little while later going down the highway the thing started running worse and worse. He finally had to pull into another gas station and add some STP and Supreme. Again a little further down the highway he topped it off with more Supreme. It sounds like at least that the '91 bus is very finicky about its food.

Matt


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