Burning Man 2024

[E1]

Awesome.
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1984 Westfailure/2.1 Digijet/5.43 Ring & Pinion/Peloquin/D-rated BFG KO2s
AI has spoken to further illiteracy, to steal, to cheat, and to replace humans

"Adding power makes you faster on the straights.
Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere." — Colin Chapman

Jonathan Weisheit, Race in Peace:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3dS7xiFn7I&t=500s

[borninabus]

well done
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88 Van WBX, A/T - 13 JSW TDI 6M/T - 2012 Touareg TDI Sport

[Chootrain470]

I drove over 500 miles and made it home yesterday. No real issues on this trip. Had a great time at Burning Man.

A few things of note:
1. My power window regulator broke. Easy replacement, to be done in the coming days.
2. The van ran poorly when leaving the playa. When I reached pavement, I stopped and blew the engine out with a leaf blower, changed the air filter, and wiped off the distributor. The van ran well after this.

Now let the cleaning begin!

[E1]

[CT440ROD]

My son joe is there .Look for a boat with a crows nest.

[Chootrain470]

I made it to the Playa yesterday! The van drove the ~500miles flawlessly. The only issue was the drivers side power window regulator broke on the drive (easily dealt with when back home). Besides that, the van and I and chilling out here in the dust). Good idea about the sprinkler, I may try that as well as a vinegar rinse on everything. This certainly beats the tent I was in last year!

[Westaru]

For those that go out to the playa, the dust IS incredibly alkaline. I've found both of these products to neutralize and take off the dust very well:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Calgon-Water-Softener-3...EIQAvD_BwE

https://www.westmarine.com/salt-away-salt-away-tre...wQQAvD_BwE

I've never taken my van and wouldn't as it's 'too nice' but there is a VW camp (aka VW Bus Camp) out there with many vans and buses.
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1984 Vanagon Westfalia EJ22

[Sodo]

We took our daughters to Burning man. They were super-stoked. Now they go without us....

[zerotofifty]

My granddad was too old to fight in the war, world war two that is. so he built Liberty ships as a shipyard foreman. He drove a hearse, yeah he bought a hearse, put more seats in it and used it to car pool shipyard workers to and from work, he got extra tire and gas ration coupons for doing this as it was war effort related. He was born before man first flew an airplane. grandma was raised in a one room cabin with a dirt floor. She didnt leave the farm until she was 19, taking her first train ride. her first ride on other than a horse or wagon. Them was the days, hip and cool were not even terms except for parts of the body or the weather.

[Love My Westy]

1966 I attended a Rolling Stones concert at the Lagoon amusement park near Salt Lake City. Cost was $2.50 and we were dancing 5 to 10 feet away from the stage. You want cool. Didn't have a VW Van but had a 1966 Beetle. It was still 20 years before I bought my current Vanagon new in 1986.

[Klister]

Yikes - tickets start at $575 plus taxes and "fees"

Not that I was ever planning on making that trek

[swissarmychainsaw]

I go out there frequently for non-burning man activities.

I asked a local how to get playa off your vehicle: power washer was his answer.

Personally I use a lawn sprinkler, the old school oscillating kind that kids like to run through.
Put it under the van and move it every 5 mins and just rinse the bejesus out of it

[SCM]

[djkeev]

[Chootrain470]

[djkeev]

[Chootrain470]

[RasBobre]

Drove my ‘81 out to Black Rock Desert, from Tahoe City, only for a photo op.
I’d never bring it out there for Burning Man.
Good luck with the clean up!

[goubeaux]

[zerotofifty]