labtech1 wrote:
Instead of a sleeping bag and food, you should have packed and extra
starter, tools and a cell phone


Have you ever changed the starter on a VW bug?
In 15F weather?
In a foot of snow?

If so you are a hell of alot tougher then me.

My friends hooked a rope to their 4 wheel drive and I popped the clutch
in 2nd. Kind of interesting in a foot of snow.. Once I got the engine
running
we boogied back to Lexington.

Hint a Porshe 914 starter will fit a VW bug and you don't have to drop
the engine. VW bug starters were "missing the rear end and had to
be installed with the engine out. Major bummer.

So I would have needed to pull the engine, removed the dead starte,
drive out the
bushing in the transaxil, install the new starter, make sure it was
spaced correctly
and then reinstalled the engine.

I know I am just a lame slacker.

Terry

VW's.I have owned three of them before.The first one was a 1961 van I
bought at Steakly Chevrolet in Killeen,Texas in 1965.(when I was in the
U.S.Army,,,, GO ARMY!) The second one was a 1963 VW beetle car I bought
when I came home on a three day leave from Fort Hood,Texas in 1965.The
third one was a 1970 VW van.Those old VW's are a pain in the arse! The
clutch cables stretch and break and the balves (valves) are suppose to
be adjusted every three thousand miles.I never ever want anything to do
with VW anythings ever again.You freeze to death in the wintertime in
those old VW pieces of junk too.There is a guy near me whom wheels and
deals in old VWs,I might get over there (it's only about two miles from
me) someday and look around.
cuhulin

One night I was putt puttin around the hinterlands of Fort Hood in my
1961 VW van.You know those tall post that have the stranded steel guy
wires? I managed to get the right rear wheel of my van hung up on one of
those guy wires.I got my trusty Visegrip pliers with the wire cutter
thingy on them.(it was dark out there) I hacked away at that guy wire
untill I got the wheel unstuck and then I got the hell away from there!
cuhulin