[tcb] Re: t@p pain and jeapordy

  • From: Cari Smith <cariandpaul@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 17:11:12 -0500

Alma Jo,
Maybe we should start a health care plan for our VW;s.  From what I hear
health care providers make alot of money!

Were the blown pistons on the same engine, and was that the one that got a
new engine?  Let me know where you got the new engine from, so we DON'T GO
THERE!

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Alma Jo Barrera
<patchmongrel1@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> **
> I know how you feel.
>
> I just (Saturday morning) lost engine with 992 miles. froze up. over 2
> grand.
>
> blew #3 piston coming home from The Classic in April 2011.
>
> blew #1 piston coming home from The Classic in April 2010.
>
> Oh yea. and my 61 bug spit out a plug. Threads and all :(
>
> Alma Jo
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* Paul Smith <sealingwaxred@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Monday, September 26, 2011 7:46 PM
> *Subject:* [tcb] Re: t@p pain and jeapordy
>
> I feel your pain , good luck on getting it fixed
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 26, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Cari Smith <cariandpaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   The other Paul Smith and I have worked to get the bus back to road
> worthy shape in time for T@P, but we are getting down to the wie.  Here's
> our problem.  We have a fuel/air mix problem that we can't seem to kick.
> Symptoms are a bus that does not idle correctly and Paul has to 3-foot it at
> all stops.  That's one on the clutch, one on the brake, and one on the gas
> to keep us from stalling. The first and easiest answer is to adjust the
> idle.  The screw does nothing and based on our Muir book, we cleaned the
> carb.  Now will hold a fairly steady idle , but it's too low.  When you
> engage the transmission it dies.  Or when you rev the throttle, on the way
> back down to idle it goes too low and dies.  So far we have: cleaned carb
> with carb cleaner, cleaned air filter, replaced fuel pump and rod, replace
> valve cover gasket (unrelated), replaced spark plugs, checked timing, run
> compression test... all is good.  The only thing we havent replaced is
> points, but  I surely would have thought fouled points would show up in the
> compression test.
>
> Any words of wisdom, we're caught between takinging it to a mechanic down
> the street for God knows how much moolah, or skipping Transporters
> altogether, which really means we would still come in our pontiac and just
> camp in a tent.
>
> Help!
> Cari smith
>
>

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