Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:22:07 -0500
Reply-To: Derek Drew <drew@INTERPORT.NET>
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From: Derek Drew <drew@INTERPORT.NET>
Subject: Re: Snow Stuck Syncro
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Yes, absolutely.
The best way is to buy four $15 12 volt air pumps at K-Mart or Wal-Mart a
similar institution and keep them in a bag. To air up, run all four at once on
all four tires. Takes about 7 mins to air up.
The other end of the spectrum is to get a $600 12 volt pump out of the Granger
catalog. Check also ReadyAir. A medium solution is to get a $350ish pump from
one of the ads in the 4x4 mags. For more on this solution, write to
chrisr@interport.net as he purchased and installed one. I believe the extremes
work better than the middle solution.
Avoid $100 12 volt pumps as four cheapo pumps push a lot more air.
At 11:00 AM 2/2/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
> Derek,
>
> Can you suggest for us a decent-quality, heavy duty, "fast", 12v air pump for
> use when bringing the tires back up to full pressure? Hand pumps are not an
> option!
>
> Cheers,
> MJS
>
>
> At 10:50 AM 2/2/99 -0500, Derek Drew wrote:
> >Next time let the air out of the syncro's tires down to around 18 psi.
> >
> >This is so important you won't believe it. Absolutely changes the car into
> >something different.
> >
> >At 11:55 PM 2/1/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >>Hi all! This is just a little, or not so little tale of how I spent my
> >>Saturday, 30 Jan, morning.
> >>
> >>It started out a beautiful Minnesota morning. Not a cloud in the sky and
> temp
> >>in the lower 20s. There was a freezing fog the night before and all the
> trees
> >
> >________________________________________________________
> >Derek Drew New York, NY & Washington, DC
> >drew@interport.net
> >'90 Syncro Westfalia...
> >...seen off-road at
> <http://www.tiu.net/~des/vw/drew/index.html>http://www.tiu.net/~des/vw/dre
> w/index.html
> >
> > Also seen at:
> <http://www.pipeline.com/~tforhan/swrange.htm>http://www.pipeline.com/~tfo
> rhan/swrange.htm
> > http://4wd.sofcom.com/VW/snow.html
> >
> <http://www.pipeline.com/~tforhan/swmassn.htm>http://www.pipeline.com/~tfo
> rhan/swmassn.htm
> > http://4wd.sofcom.com/VW/Campers/Campers.html
> >
> > Note: most valuable Vanagon sites on the planet (for owners) are:
> >
> <http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S1=vanagon>http://gerry.vanagon.c
> om/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S1=vanagon
> > ftp://gerry.vanagon.com/pub/
> >
>
> Michael J. Sullivan
> Director of Catalog Design
> Open Market, Inc.
>
> *********************************************
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________________________________________________________
Derek Drew New York, NY & Washington, DC
drew@interport.net
'90 Syncro Westfalia...
...seen off-road at http://www.tiu.net/~des/vw/drew/index.html
Also seen at: http://www.pipeline.com/~tforhan/swrange.htm
http://4wd.sofcom.com/VW/snow.html
http://www.pipeline.com/~tforhan/swmassn.htm
http://4wd.sofcom.com/VW/Campers/Campers.html
Note: most valuable Vanagon sites on the planet (for owners) are:
http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S1=vanagon
ftp://gerry.vanagon.com/pub/
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