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Date:         Tue, 2 Feb 1999 11:22:07 -0500
Reply-To:     Derek Drew <drew@INTERPORT.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Derek Drew <drew@INTERPORT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Snow Stuck Syncro
Comments: To: Michael Sullivan <sullivan@OPENMARKET.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <3.0.5.32.19990202110057.00e557b0@po-2.openmarket.com>
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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. > > ********************************************* > phone: 781.359.7624 > work: <http://www.openmarket.com>http://www.openmarket.com > scan tips: <http://www.hsdesign.com/scanning>http://www.hsdesign.com/scanning > vanagon: <http://www.hsdesign.com/vanagon>http://www.hsdesign.com/vanagon > *********************************************

________________________________________________________ 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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