dear dreaming of lost van
somewhere in my pile of stuff i have an old Type 2 advert showing a van in a
parking lot full of cars
the tag line reads something like ,,,
never lose your vehicle again ...
or something like that ...
sounds like rocket j has been channeling mad men or maybe he has simply come
full circle ...
*cue creepy weird music*
apologies to fans of lost or mad men ... i watch neither
yours

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <
camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Crikey. I wish my brain could come up with less stupid stuff to deal with
> when I'm asleep, but no -- this morning I awoke in the middle of a dream
> in which I was searching for Mellow Yellow in a partially-empty mall
> parking lot. I hadn't even parked it very far from the store's entrance,
> but there I was, combing aisle after aisle of cars, in the rain, wondering
> when my family would start to wonder when I was gonna get home with that
> gallon of milk.
>
> IN OTHER NEWS, Mellow Yellow finally got a new muffler. The old one looked
> pretty much like rust lace. Now, it's so quiet that a couple of times when
> I was sitting at a light I had to look at the tach to see if the engine
> was running. Ernst muffler from Bus Depot, had it installed for $80 at
> Steve's Place in Bend, Ore.
>
> While the van was up on the lift he had another go at locating the source
> of the "thunk" sound that occurs (mainly but not only) in second gear
> (auto transmission) only when cruising on level pavement and just when the
> foot comes off the gas pedal. When the drive train unloads, there's this
> very audible "thunk" that sounds from under the vehicle. Ears say it's up
> front, but that can be misleading. Nothing found wrong with wheels,
> bearings, CV joints, motor mounts, tranny mounts, Canadian mounts, rear
> suspension, front suspension, veeblefetzer fittings, or the steering
> hawsers and levers. Rocking the vehicle fore and aft by hand causes the
> tranny's park pawl to click a bit, but that's all. It's a head-scratcher.
>
> A couple torn boots were found on the steering tackle up front. There's no
> avoiding getting those replaced. Will need to get the front end re-aligned
> after that.
>
> --
> Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>

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roger w
From Proverbs:
Under three things the earth trembles, under four it cannot bear up: a
servant who becomes king ...
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