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Date:         Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:08:00 -0500
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <inua@ROADRUNNER.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         John Rodgers <inua@ROADRUNNER.COM>
Subject:      Re: Back Online

-- [ From: John Rodgers * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --

This is thrilling!

John Rodgers '88 GL Driver

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Date: Thursday, 01-Apr-99 06:50 AM

From: G. Matthew Bulley \ Internet: (gmbulley@bulley-hewlett.com) To: John Rodgers \ Internet: (inua@roadrunner.com) To: Vanagon \ Internet: (vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com)

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Subject: RE: Back Online

You Wrote: just had it in to a Texaco Service center for servicing with oil change, filter, and tranny check. They signed the tranny off as having been checked... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Quoted from the UNIVERSAL 'SERVICE CENTER' MANUAL FOR 22 POINT 'SAFETY CHECKS, (used widely by Jiffy Lube, Midas, Texaco, Sears, Muffler Man, Western Auto, etc.) SECTION 12, ITEM 4, TRANSMISSION

"Service attendant must visually locate transmission on vehicle being inspected. Blind service attendants may use touch to locate transmission. Transmission is generally a large metal object attached directly to motor, or indirectly through drive line. Through general observation, service attendant must establish that the transmission is firmly attached to the vehicle, and does not have any obvious holes, cracks, gushing leaks, or loose parts. Notify customer only if transmission is missing, or will soon fall out of the vehicle, or has obvious holes, cracks, gushing leaks, or loose parts. This completes the Transmission check. Service attendant must sign sheet to establish the completion of the "Transmission Check".

G. Matthew Bulley Bulley-Hewlett & Associates Cary, North Carolina, USA www. bulley-hewlett.com phone: 888.468.4880 (tollfree)

-----Original Message----- From: John Rodgers [SMTP:inua@ROADRUNNER.COM] Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 1999 10:55 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Back Online

-- [ From: John Rodgers * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --

Howdy Vanagoneers! Went offline for quite a spell (since January) while re - locating and have anxiously awaited this moment......Reconnected!!

There are tales to tell but first let me say it is good to be back with the Vanagon crowd.

My travels over the last couple of years have taken me from Alaska to Alabama and now to New Mexico. I expect to get back to Alaska eventually. My trusty steed for all that was first a 1985 GL and later (and currently ) a 1988 GL, the latter of which turned out not to be so trusty a steed in the beginning. And that is quite a story.

It began one day before I was to drive to New Mexico from Birmingham, Alabama. Had the Van in to my favorite Van guru, Roger Williams of Rogers Auto Repair in Bessemer, basically a suburb of Birmingham. Good man, Roger, and exellent mechanic on vanagons.

He had done a brake job for me, replaced steering rack boots, installed new O2 sensoe, new cat converter, new muffler and tail pipe. While it was in there, and just because I was about to leave on a long trip, I asked him to drain the tranny and put in new oil. When he did, there was all kinds of metal, not chunks but filings a plenty. He also told me the tranny fluid was so low, it was hard to measure. He also said it looked like the filler plug had never been removed -- ever. That was especially disturbing because I had just had it in to a Texaco Service center for servicing with oil change, filter, and tranny check. They signed the tranny off as having been checked

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