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Date:         Tue, 7 Dec 1999 18:24:26 -0800
Reply-To:     "ThomasD. Hanlon" <hanran@EARTHLINK.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "ThomasD. Hanlon" <hanran@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Engine rebuilding resources
Comments: To: bostneng@fcl-us.net
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Dear Professor,

Thanks for the dissertation.

My Ph.D. reference was to your superb web site, which is my "neophyte's" Bible for theoretical and practical stuff about rebuilding.. I should have written, "See the site for a lot of available and valuable information. The Ph.D. reference was in respect, primarily, to your level of expertise, and, of course, I presumed that all who used your services would pay your going professional fee and meet the other ethical and operative standards to which most of the Listees seem to subscribe. If you, or anyone on the List, deduced that I was advocating any gratis, or other inappropriate, access to your resources other than the bostonengine.com WWW site, please be disabused of that notion.

I am in the midst of "stripping," slowly, all the rusty parts and the peripherals from a 1.9 engine that "was running when the transmission was taken to be repaired and the garage closed and the trannie disappeared," which I bought from a mutual Listee friend in New York State last year. I lugged it home to CA in my Coleman Versatrailer, towed by the Vanagon, with the idea of having you, for your usual appropriate fee, review the engine, advise a course of action, and, eventually, bring the engine (block, core, "without electrical, emission and injection" stuff) to an operating standard, as a "spare," which I would have for the replacement when my nearly 200,000-mile-old, 1.9, goes to the big Vanagon recuperation/R&R/ center in the sky. . . I've even taken Bulley's advice about researching transport costs for shipment of the engine to you from Sunny Palm Springs to Tropical Wayland. Turn-around transportation cost, so far determined, is about $300, a fair fee to submit the engine to you to acquire your professional review services. Note, "professional" means paid, including al the parts necessary, AND with an eye to the competitive pricing extant in our List community.

Be assured that I know the value of professional advice and consultancy, since in my pre-semi-retierment days, those fed and educated my babies, and those pursuits have given me the time, and the situation, to fool around with an old Vanagon which my wife and I have used to travel 50,000 miles in the last three years, with three Daschunds, a love bird, and a small degree of eccentricity.

So far, the Westy is still perking along. We just returned from 3,500 miles into Sierras California, Washington and Oregon, and Rockies Canada, and we leave in a few days in the Westy for Missouri, probably a 4,000-mile trip, to attend the birth of grandchild number five. One cylinder has a bit of low compression, but we rocket along at 60 MPH towing the Coleman, so it may be a while before I need your organ transplant expertise. Be assured the experience with me will be without hondle.

Regards,

Tom Hanlon Palm Springs, CA 84 Westfalia, "Chester W. Nimitz"

Bob Donalds wrote:

> ThomasD. Hanlon wrote: > > > > Karl, > > > > Look to bostonengine.com. Bob Donalds offers a Ph.D course, gratis. > > > > A MEMO FROM THE COLLEGE OF BOB > Department of Debating > Professor and Master of Debating Bob Donalds > Wayland Ma > > Dear Tom, Karl and the list > > I like Ken at Vanagain and Ron at the bus depot are trying to make a > living > by selling parts and services. I also like to sharing what I have > learned about vanagons on the list. Gene Berg taught me years ago that > sharing what I know brings people (customers) to me. I am greatful to > him for taking the time to write down and publish the things he found to > be true. Gene had a hard time with people that bought parts somewhere > else and called him asking how to make it work. it got to the point that > he would check to see if you had bought the part from him before he > would work with you on the phone to get it right. I must admit was > always a little nervous about calling him so I woud start by thanking > him for making me a better engine rebuilder. I cant blame him one bit > why should he spend time with somebody elses customer. So the same thing > can be said about Ken, Ron and myself why would we give advise or tech > support to somebody elses customer after all you are keeping us from > helping people that are spending money with us. I will tell you why I > give limited tech support to most callers first its hard for me not to > be polite on the phone and second I am in business and I try to feild > all calls in a polite professional manner. There Will always be the guy > or gal that only found me after they bought there parts someplace else > and I given them a minute or twenty all the time to resolve there > problems. I do try to treat people the way I want to be treated. > > let me end this rant by saying that I will try and continue to help > those who need help as I can but my customers will come first. Please > consider the value added each vender has to offer by that I mean the > knolage and experiance to sell you and support you with exactly what you > need do the job right the first time. > I do not speaking for Ken or Ron but dont think they would disagree > > The College of Bob


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