Well The VW's heater worked better than the heater of my old TR-3. Even when the engine was at operating temperature the heater only heated the Left side of the left foot. (I had a right hand drive TR-3) It took some time to get used to shifting with my left hand. On the other hand it is much more civilized to flip the bird to some one with your right hand and not the unclean hand.
Why????
I was young and invulnerable. It was only questionably illegal in some peoples minds. It made me a great deal of money tax free. I had a great time doing it. I met all kinds of interesting people. And finally discretion is a highly over rated word, just look at this Usenet group.
Please stay modest {:-).
These stories reminds me of a 10 day job I had once where each evening one of the old guys would regail us with stories of his sailing adventures. After a few days, another bloke said to me quietly "how you notice how all his sailing trips end with the boat sinking or otherwise destroyed". I'm getting the impression any road trip with you has to be done with very flexible time considerations {:-).
When I got married , my wife used to drive my car , an old xc falcon that the gears used to jam up on , you know the old colum shift 3 speeds ? I saw her pop the bonnet and bash the bejesus out of the linkage rods with a piece of wood kept usualy for putting down injured animals , drop the bonnet and drive off .
I felt kinda ashamed she was stuck driving my old bomb but was impressed at her technique with the wadi .
After seeing that , I bought us a decent car , wich was promptly written off by a new cop to town who was getting used to the roads ... when the insurance finaly paid up , we got aother car ... and have been driving "decent" cars ever since . They still break down now and then , but not with the regularity of the good old days ...
Also , I use them whistler 'shuroo' things , and have good solid roobars , take a break from driving every 6 hours if I need it or not , no longer measure distances in 6packs 1/2 cartons and cartons .
I thnk Ive had more trips that Ive arrived on time from than Ive been delayed by problems , but then my style of holiday is like when we went to cairns , and decided since we are up there , lets have a look up at cooktown , and while we was up there we figured Darwin wasnt too far away , and while we were in darwin , my wife got a longing to see her mum , so we headed down thru alice and across to perth , on the way there mum decided she wanted to drop by Mt Gambia on the way home .... there is probably a couple reasons why we have a lot of fun one is we are on the road a lot at times , and the other is the places we go , most of the roo damage wouldnt have happened if we were in town , and the breakdowns would have been fixed by NRMA / RAC and mechanic .
Whateevr the reason , youre kinda right , road trips with me can take longer than planned , but thats part of the fun .
Do more poop slinging in nonsense political threads and talk less sense ?
They are the best sort of trips. Driving from A to B in shortest time is so boring and uninteresting.
I had to repair a crack in my (thin) fiberglass dinghy once, so I killed the motor, got out a butane lighter and heated a plastic soda bottle and spread it over the crack *ouch* *ouch* *ouch* sealed the leak to get to shore without taking on more water and messing up all the provisions I had just picked up. Honestly if I wasnt' carrying anything I wouldn't have bothered, but I didn't want all the flour and dry stores ruined by a slow leak.
Steve
I can understand that. After all why should the pilot be the first one at the scene of an accident!!!!!
My brother had a good one...
In Vietnam he was an aircraft mechanic (now retired) One time he was called out to a remote location where they had a down helicopter. Some wiring had burned up. He rigged new wiring by striping out strands from a set of jumper cables and using electrical tape for insulation.
The funny part was when got ready to leave the captain on the down craft made him ride back on the repaired one, The captain wanted him to go down with them if his repair did not hold up.
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IIRC,in early times,Roman bridge engineers were made to be on a barge under the new bridge for it's first use.Then they had an interest in seeing that the bridge hold up to traffic.
Eberspächer was indeed the maker of the VW gas heaters. They came in several sizes. All had glow plugs for starting and some had spark ignition too.
The co. is still around, making mostly truck heating systems under the Espar name.
Speedy Jim
Dunno, but I do know they had 'em for VW vans. Bought a Dutch Police van that had one, and had been "tricked" out as mobile office.
replying to Jack, Monte wrote: Needed to get heat quickly in a house when it was below zero there was a 4" hole in the wall put a 90+% furnace in the room and used a 2" shop vac hose and extensions to vent the exhaust gases out the hole and packed it with insulation this kept the house from freezing. Finished the instillation later but kept the house from freezing. FYI this was my house a HVAC&R tech with 40+ years had a furnace fail suddenly it had been looked at earlier that season the furnace was 30+ years old and the part was not available until the next day.
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