[tcb] Re: Coming in on a wing and a prayer
- From: Will Wood <evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 10:41:55 -0500
Well, make it back safe Denis.
Sorry to hear about your woes. Make sure you check the oil regularly.
YOu don't want to seize it up.
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 22:59 -0400, coocoo@xxxxxxx wrote:
> So, I tied up with a bunch of locals that were at Psycoblooie and went to
> Busses Nowhere Near The Arch. This is my second year and it is in the top 5
> on my calendar. Like T@P it is a true not-a-show campout. And truly
> hilarious, lots of laughing. The biggest contingent seems to be from
> Wisconsin. No one knows why. Lots of brats.
>
> So, on the way up, we are driving through Norman Rockwell beautiful family
> values American small town with a soda fountain and I look at my rear view
> and see nothing but white. I am laying huge thick billows of white blue
> smoke. The cheerleaders and the Music Man band people are falling in the
> street with their arms over their faces. Not really, but it was a cute little
> town and I did blanket it..
>
> Anyway, I think, "There's a blown engine", but I still have throttle, and
> when I give it the gas, the smoke stops. So, of course, there are about 100
> VW mechanics there and the consensus was that I have a "burnt piston , or a
> cracked ring. They offered to build be a new engine until they found out that
> it was a 1914 and that I needed machined 88s. None of those parts on Labor
> day weekend.
>
> So, I am burning two quarts of oil per tank and am learning to drive with a
> constant pedal, because if I don't it looks like I'm spraying for misquitos.
> We are sleeping in a KOA in Springfield, MO tonight and tomorrow we will
> nurse Murray the rest of the way home.
>
> Like a WW2 bomber trying to get home after hitting Tokyo, I am pretty shot up
> and far from home, but I got the karma.
>
> More tomorrow.
>
> By the way Julie made about a hundred CDs for us for Psycoblooie and I
> brought them here. They were quite the hit.
>
> There were 81 busses there. A lot of really cool Vanagons
>
>
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