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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:45 pm    Post subject: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

Although this summer's Itinerary has been deluged with daily rain for the past five weeks, NaranjaWesty, the 1977 Westfalia brought out of a twenty year storage sleep, has been a flawless performer throughout.
Here's its original introduction to the forum at 41,836 miles:

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?p=7832471&highlight=#7832471


The odometer was at 72,000 miles when I took off for Miami in mid-February of this year. In the past 16,000 miles over the past six months, we have seen only a loose condensor screw, a failed brand-new Bowden Tube, and a grenaded pilot bearing replaced by none other than SG Kent in Sacramento. None of these failures caused the car to stop or delay me.

CHTs have averaged 410* with a peak of 441* due to an analomous over-timing event outside of Phoenix. Fuel economy has been all over the map with 12 mpg in the mountains, and 22 mpg with a tailwind.

Valve adjustments have lost maybe a quarter turn to "recession" or seat wear.
Haven't touched the plugs. Adjusted the points once.

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This bone stock Westfalia has been such a remarkable pleasure to drive, truly the most-civilized, quiet Volkswagen I have ever driven. I sort of feel bad to just use up this original engineering in the pedestrian service of my livelihood. My '73 bus was a daily driver for most of its 30 years with me, and I took it all for granted. This car feels like an extension of that easy familiarity, but the storm clouds are amassing at the horizon ... what am I going to do when this utterly trustworthy original engineering has reached the end of its service life?
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:19 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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She is truly magnificent! It was a real pleasure riding in her too.

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... what am I going to do when this utterly trustworthy original engineering has reached the end of its service life?
Colin


Ohhhhh laaaawwwwdddd. You're going to have to live like the rest of us. Laughing Enjoy her while you can!

I hope you'll swing by on your way back to the panhandle this year!

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 5:30 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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Enjoy her while you can!

Indeed, why not?, not many get to experience what a tight, low(ish) mile/well maintained bus drives like, treat yourself because you can!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 8:59 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

"End of service life"?

It's a VW. There IS no end. Very Happy

LOL - if you mean when the time comes to rebuild the engine, then go for it and you are on to Round 2. That's where I'm at right now, and looking forward to the reset!
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2018 9:45 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

I wasn't looking when you started the pilot bearing. Are the numbers in or out? I meant to ask at the time but figured you knew. Smile

Happy 80,000 miles.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 23, 2018 12:21 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

Did she go up for sale, and then won your heart over from the scourges of capitalism??
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 5:29 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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I wasn't looking when you started the pilot bearing. Are the numbers in or out? I meant to ask at the time but figured you knew. Smile

Happy 80,000 miles.


Oh my god, the insomnia since I read this . . .

Thank-you, we're at 88,800 now. It is ticking up like a California gas pump.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 5:32 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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Did she go up for sale, and then won your heart over from the scourges of capitalism??


Yes. It is actually a better car now. I feel more justified in asking $29,999.00.
But you just can't replace the experience for any amount of money.
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 6:19 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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Yes. It is actually a better car now. I feel more justified in asking $29,999.00.


30K and the paint looks like a squad car Shocked

clearly I'm doing it wrong....
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 6:22 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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I wasn't looking when you started the pilot bearing. Are the numbers in or out? I meant to ask at the time but figured you knew. Smile

Happy 80,000 miles.


Oh my god, the insomnia since I read this . . .

Thank-you, we're at 88,800 now. It is ticking up like a California gas pump.
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Stop in at exit 23 on the I87 , right near the I87/90 meet or you are deader to me that Stu.

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 25, 2018 7:17 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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Did she go up for sale, and then won your heart over from the scourges of capitalism??


Yes. It is actually a better car now. I feel more justified in asking $29,999.00.
But you just can't replace the experience for any amount of money.
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Wait, what? You're selling her?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 8:29 am    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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Stop in at exit 23 on the I87 , right near the I87/90 meet or you are deader to me that Stu.

Very Happy

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Wait what? Why am I dead?
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 5:07 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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Yes. It is actually a better car now. I feel more justified in asking $29,999.00.


30K and the paint looks like a squad car Shocked

clearly I'm doing it wrong....



See, Skills, you gotta start high, see, and then you slowly give in.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 6:18 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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skills@eurocarsplus wrote:
Amskeptic wrote:


Yes. It is actually a better car now. I feel more justified in asking $29,999.00.


30K and the paint looks like a squad car Shocked

clearly I'm doing it wrong....



See, Skills, you gotta start high, see, and then you slowly give in.
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WTF is this squad car shit? It looks like a German postal vehicle, yes, but a squad car? Skills has been sniffing too much Subaru exhaust. Rolling Eyes

I think you should junk it now while you're ahead, though. Just sayin.
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 6:57 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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WTF is this squad car shit? It looks like a German postal vehicle, yes, but a squad car? Skills has been sniffing too much Subaru exhaust. Rolling Eyes

I think you should junk it now while you're ahead, though. Just sayin.


the 2 different shades on the drivers side #autobodycolortraining
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WTF is this squad car shit? It looks like a German postal vehicle, yes, but a squad car? Skills has been sniffing too much Subaru exhaust. Rolling Eyes

I think you should junk it now while you're ahead, though. Just sayin.


the 2 different shades on the drivers side #autobodycolortraining


Wait... are you saying cops can't color match? How dare you. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 7:42 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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Wait... are you saying cops can't color match? How dare you. Very Happy



hence the term "squad car" and another one is "cave and pave"....that is where you hammer down the high spots and pave over it with filler
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Wait... are you saying cops can't color match? How dare you. Very Happy



hence the term "squad car" and another one is "cave and pave"....that is where you hammer down the high spots and pave over it with filler


We usedta call that "drill and fill" because we drilled holes for the Bondo to "grab"...
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PostPosted: Sun Aug 26, 2018 11:54 pm    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

Y'all can't see the color mismatch when driving it, ya pups! I took the wheel somewhere around 58,000 miles two summers ago, and was a little bummed out that I couldn't hear the engine during my double-clutch downshift up 71whitewesty's hill in Hood River, Oregon.

The car is damn nice, but it DOES have some flaws. 29k? I mean, there is a click coming from the dash/instrument cluster every few miles. That should take it down to $28,995, right? I sure as hell know that if something were to happen to my bus and the insurance company were to make good on their agreement, I would take no other bus in the country currently for sale, and I've driven a lot of buses.

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:09 am    Post subject: Re: NaranjaWesty Now At 88,800 Miles Reply with quote

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skills@eurocarsplus wrote:
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Wait... are you saying cops can't color match? How dare you. Very Happy



hence the term "squad car" and another one is "cave and pave"....that is where you hammer down the high spots and pave over it with filler


We usedta call that "drill and fill" because we drilled holes for the Bondo to "grab"...


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