Date:         Mon, 30 Nov 1998 17:05:39 -0800
Reply-To:     YauMan Chan <YAUMAN@CCHEM.BERKELEY.EDU>
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From:         YauMan Chan <YAUMAN@CCHEM.BERKELEY.EDU>
Subject:      Re: thanks for the road trip advice!
Comments: To: Matthew.Pollard@OREADCA.COM, vanagon@VANAGON.COM
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Oh No.. what about Berserkeley for grad school?

Anyway.. I can came back from a trip to the mountains in Tahoe in my 87 GL and it is plenty warm enough.. in fact, I barely have the temp lever pass the 1/4 mark and everyone is toasting.  You may want to check your thermostat..

Yau-Man Chan
87 GL

>>> "Pollard, Matthew" <Matthew.Pollard@OREADCA.COM> 11/30 4:24 PM >>>
Oh yeah, it looks like University of Idaho in regards to the Grad school
search...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pollard, Matthew [SMTP:Matthew.Pollard@OREADCA.COM] 
> Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 4:22 PM
> To:   vanagon@VANAGON.COM 
> Subject:      thanks for the road trip advice!
>
> Thanks to all for the advice and good karma on my grad school road trip.
> My
> 84 weekender was great; no problems what-so-ever...except when i left the
> lights on... But anyways, i went north from San Jose CA to Pullman WA,
> east
> to Bozeman Montana and south to SLC UT then across 80 to Reno and then
> back
> to San Jose.  3100 miles in 9 days.  The weather was cooperative, lots of
> rain, but little snow. I had to strap on the chains (on the tyres!) for
> one
> pass, proceeded to break a chain and ding and dig the crap out of a fender
> :-(    The only problem on the trip was the rig seemed to run a bit cold.
> It
> wouldn't get out of the little white part of the temp gauge. I switched
> the
> lever on the rear heater core, but it didn't appear to help the problem.
>
> Thanks and happy Bus'n
> matthew