----- Original Message -----

From: BRENT CHRISTENSEN

To: 'Tom and Dana Cates' ; 'vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM' =

Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 = 7:35 PM

Subject: RE: BusDepot Fuel = Tank, have you installed one?

Does it have internal baffles?

Brent Christensen
'89 GL = Syncro Westy
Santa Barbara, CA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.CO= M]On Behalf
> Of Tom and Dana Cates =
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 4:09 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: BusDepot Fuel Tank, have you = installed one?
>
>
> Herr Doktor,
>
> I have one.
>
> I have not installed it yet, because, = well because I don't
> really relish = the
> idea of doing it.
>
> Sometimes on Fridays I fill her = up.
>
> But maybe this = weekend I will put it in.
>
> Tom Cates
> 83 Aircooled Westfalia = 'Hammurabi'
>
> ----- Original = Message -----
> From: "Doktor Tim" <doktortim@ROCKISLAND.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: = Tuesday, May 09, 2000 3:33 PM
> Subject: Re: = BusDepot Fuel Tank, have you installed one?
> =
>
> > At 01:30 PM = 05/09/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> > >You don't think an aftermarket company couldn't reproduce
> = a fuel tank for
> > >less the $500? =
> >
> > Not for $150 = unless they use third world semi-skilled labor
> and = very cheap
> > to ship lightweight metal. = Compromise cum laude.
> >
> >  It's a fuel tank.  These are sold all over the world, not
> > >just the tiny USA = market.  That's why they are cheap!
> > =
> > No, they're cheap because every compromise was = thought of
> to meet the
> world
> > demands of fools, who are = poor, and will remain so unless
> they catch = a
> clue
> > and = begin to VERIFY before they buy what they are buying,
> which is what
> the
> > respondent is trying to do.
> = >
> >  Some re-pros are better than =
> > >stock--they've seen where they have failed and = are designed better.
> >
> > Interested in any data you have that supports that
> statement. I know of a
> > very few and rare examples, most of them Berg = parts, but
> then, those are
> > ENHANCED materials and specifications and cost MORE than =
> dealer oem price
> > in = some cases.
> >
> > By all means Jay, respond to the individual who has asked =
> for the opinion
> > of = anyone with ACTUAL EXPERIANCE as to the installation of the tanks
> > supplied by BusDepot. For a certainty, SOME = aftermarket parts are
> > uninstallable without = modifications and some will not work right
> = regardless
> > any attempt to install them and some are = just flat not
> installable and the =
> > worst are the ones you do get installed by hook or = crook
> and they fail and
> > take more original parts with them.
> >
> > I would expect Ron would = provide people with references to
> clients he = has
> > shipped these particular tanks to. Any = good business
> person, like Ron, is =
> > not at all fearful of word of mouth reports. That's = how you
> tell a good
> > business to deal with. The word of mouth in the vast majority = is
> possative.
> = >
> > I agree that restoration of the genuine = original tank is a
> vastly superior =
> > idea to using anything designed to be cheap. But in = the
> instant case, the
> > original was crushed and deformed and presumably not =
> repairable. As well,
> = a
> > junkyard obtained and restored original = tank is a way mo-
> better idea than =
> > anything designed to be cheap.
> >
> > It will FOR SURE fit with NO = HASSLES, guaranteed, 'cause
> it's EXACTLY = the
> > same.
> = >
> > What value hath certainty??? Differs = between apes of all
> kinds as your
> > opinion compared to mine doth prove.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > T.P. Stephens
> > San Juan Island, = WA
>