Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:55:03 -0400
Reply-To: "W. Silva" <wsilva@CAPECOD.NET>
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From: "W. Silva" <wsilva@CAPECOD.NET>
Subject: Marvelous! Mysterious! But what's wrong with my e...
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Bob,
Funny this should appear on the List now. We just returned from PA, Buses
by the Trail, via Baltimore (to Cape Cod). Here is my tale of woe (as cut
from email to Karl Bloss)
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We ended up not leaving the campground until after 3:00 that day, just
lazing around and eating stuffed Quahogs (hard shelled clams to everyone
else but people from NE). Then we decided because it was so late, we would
go south to Baltimore and spend the night with our son & family and leave
Tuesday or Wed. Well as things usually go, we hit a SNAFU. We barely made
it to their house in the rain-seems our vent line on the tank had a split
on it and was picking up water off the road that was being sprayed on it by
our right tire. After changing the fuel filter and syphoning off some of
the tank to check it out we decided we were ok now so we would hit the
road, this was Monday. Well.....guess what, not that easy. Went to start
up and no fuel pump the darn thng just quit. I can't get mad at this bus,
any time it has decided to really die, except once, it has died near home
or at least a relitives home. Long story short, got the fuel pump, Cliff
put it in and we were on our way Tuesday morning. About an hour out of
Baltimore we started hearing this bang, bang sound every time we let off
the gas to slow down. We lived with that all the way home and still haven't
figured out what that's all about but I think it is eaither a CV joint or
some part of a brake broken loose. Gotta look into that tomorrow.
>>>>>
This is the second time we have ended up with water in the gas and had to
change the fuel filter. WE thought the first time about 2 months ago that
we had picked it up at the gas station from bad gas but now we have found a
split just below the vent line that come from the fill port. Our son
wrapped this with aluminum tape, the type that is used as ice and water
shield on roofs, just to get us home, which it did. I guess we would have
discovered the problem earlier if we hadn't had such a dry season in MA,
right?
Definately water and gas don't mix, well-they mix but don't burn well.
Wanna try guessing the source of the "Things that go bump in the night"
wheel noise? No it doesn't make any change in the noise when we apply the
brakes, sounds like someone hitting the rim with a hammer.
Happy trails,
Wendy & John
Cape Cod, MA
'85 Westy, "S-CAPE"
LiMBO members
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