Re: roadside fix

[Gary Huff <scirocco86@home.com>]

Yeah, but it sucks when bad things happen. I had a tensioner shit itself on my old 8v car 50 miles from home, and 15 from where we were supposed to go. I ended up walking to my friends fathers place in shoes with no socks thanks to that tensioner -- I showed up with chewed up bloody ankles. Moral of the story? When owning/driving a VW prepare for the worst :) Peace,
	-Gary Huff

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 03:57:55PM -0400, Brad Sayer wrote:
> My girlfriend likes to kid me about how I love to work on my car, but there 
> is still always something wrong with it.  "You spend all this time, and its 
> still not fixed?"
> 
> Well, driving to Conn. this weekend one of the selector rods in my linkage 
> decided to crack adn fall off the little ball joint, leaving me with about 9 
> inches of free play side to side, and only 3 and 4th gears.  She was 
> convinced our trip was over and was trying to call home as I opened the 
> hood, pulled out the piece, ducked taped it back together, reinstalled and 
> started the car within 15 minutes.  She was asking me how I was going to 
> keep driving with only 2 gears, when I explained to her that I had fixed the 
> problem.
> 
> Fixing your own car makes you feel very good, but doing on the side of the 
> highway in a pinch, with a screwdriver and some duct tape, feels even 
> better!
> 
> Brad
> 
> 87 16V
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