Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 21:05:11 -0800
Reply-To: Brent Christensen <sbsyncro@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From: Brent Christensen <sbsyncro@HOTMAIL.COM>
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Uh, yea... And a water pump and maybe some belts, too. :-)
Brent Christensen
'89 GL Sycnro Westy "Klaus"
Santa Barbara, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zoltan Kuthy" <zol@FOXINTERNET.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 8:45 PM
> James,
> Would the Kama Sutra work instead? It is religious and meditating,
> trallalla...
> It is good to have the usual set of tools that can open and shut
everything.
> Plus big hammer, crow bar, towing rope, GPS, satellite phone, cognac,
Smith
> and Wesson,
> childless young female, Bentley book, flash light, umbrella, etc.
> Just kidding... But some of these you will miss when you are in the gunk.
> Zoltan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James T." <jboldway@INTCON.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 2:19 PM
>
>
> > >Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 16:16:33 -0800
> > >From: Brian and Carol Megas <bmegas@ISLAND.NET>
> > >Subject: gas mileage
> > >
> > >Here's a question - what would you consider absolutely necessary to be
> > >included in a Westy tool kit when going on a relatively remote, 2-3
week
> > >wander? Like I say, it's been a few years since we last worried about
> this
> > >kind of stuff.
> > Duct tape, insulated wire, bottle of tequilla, a few feet of vacuum/gas
> hose,
> > some lengths of coolant hose, coolant, H20, some bailing wire, JB weld,
> hacksaw
> > blades and a few 1.5" long nut/bolts of various diameter. Oh - and a
> wrench to
> > take off the supporting bolt to hold on the spare tire if you no longer
> have
> > the original westy wheel wrench! Some big "X" tyre wrenches don't have
the
> > ground clearance to fit under there. (I think it's 19MM - make sure your
> spare
> > has AIR!)
> > Also the obvious basics of 6,8,9,10 . . . MM wrenches. A spare plug
wire,
> fuel
> > filter, air filter, rotor and cap are nice too.
> >
> > And in case anything breaks a credit card . . . ;~}
> > Oh - a most essential repair tool is a copy of the book "Bhagavad-Gita
as
> it
> > is," by his Divine Grace A.C. Swami Prabhupada - the Hare Krishna/Indian
> book
> > of wisdom that people like Oppenheimer and George Harrison read. Mind
you,
> > don't read it - just put in your hippievan. It gives it a good karma so
> nothing
> > horrible happens. Worked for me - everything blew out in my hippievan
> (tranny,
> > etc) at first then somebody told me to get the book and put it inside.
Van
> is
> > happy. I'm happy. If you don't like Hare Krishnas, maybe a book about
the
> Dali
> > Lama. Whatever. The van seems to like this stuff (something about the
> dichotomy
> > between Nazis and Eastern Philosophy). I've got two Hare Krishna books -
> > Bhagavad-Gita and the teachings of Lord Chalamatra (or something like
> that) in
> > the van - not sure what's inside the books but the van loves them. I
think
> my
> > gas mileage went up too!
> > Make that a few bottles of tequilla in the repair kit. I'm running low
> > already . . . .
> >
> > Boldway
> > '85 Westy
> > "Panzerkampingwagen"
> >
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