Re: IT LIVZ! (long)

["Wm. Josiah Erikson" <scirocco@absomotherfuckinlutely.com>]

You didn't say... how does she go? (grin)
	-Josiah
PS Things falling off VW's is normal. I got a big kick out of an
announcement at the last NESCC AutoX I went to. "If anything falls of a
car while you're working, get the red flag out and notify the driver...
unless it's a VW or a Neon, in which case just run out there, throw the
part into the dirt and keep the race going."

'84 GTi
http://bork.hampshire.edu/josiah

"No one grows up. Time just shows up and
Makes you fake it." - Protein

On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Jim Jarrett wrote:

> You'll have to excuse me while I pick the bugs out of my teeth....
> 
> Just got back from the third shakedown drive of my '81 Rabbit 
> Convertible 16v conversion.  Oh GOD I'm glad this ordeal is almost 
> over....er...wow, it looks good!
> 
> Spent most of the weekend putting the rest of the interior back in, 
> put the MiM Speedline Vento's on, and that did it.  I HAD to drive it.
> 
> Took it around the block.  Still some timing issues, I think, since I 
> stalled a couple times braking at stop signs.
> 
> Only heard one TING-ting-ting-ting.... of something falling off and 
> Dopperling away.  Dunno what it was :-P
> 
> Took it to a gas station to gas it up and put air in the tires.  Some 
> guy in a Camaro said he really liked it.
> 
> Second trip was planned to be out on I-490 to my brother's in 
> Fairport.  Got on the expressway, shifted up to 5th, and UH-OH.  The 
> shift lever was flopping around.  I only had 3rd and 4th.  I'd been 
> in a VW where this had happened before.....I was a bit worried. 
> Limped home (used some VERY yellow lights, I must say), and looked 
> under the hood.  One end of the short "ball" connector in the linkage 
> had popped off.  Pushed it back on, felt the clip snap shut (thinking 
> I forgot to do that one?)
> 
> Third trip was a little mix of expressway and city streets to Mike 
> Leach's.  We're checking it out, and his classy new $150 Taurus (get 
> off the Ford, Mike. Ford kills.), and a bunch of yutes from the 'hood 
> go by, saying, "Wow, cool car!"
> 
> How good does that make me feel?
> 
> 
> Checking out the exhaust, we find another escapee -- one of the 
> exhaust hangers.
> 
> So, after about 20 miles of shakedown, here's what we've got:
> 
> -Speedo doesn't work.   (I think I need to check the connection on the back)
> -Temp gauge doesn't register (but the 3-gauge one works, never got 
> over 100 C, thinking the connector to the cluster isn't tight.)
> 
> -Popped, and fixed a tranny linkage component
> -Lost an exhaust hanger.
> 
> Let's hope that's all.......there's still a ton of things I have to 
> do before WF!
> -- 
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