Attack of the Oil Light

[Kubelwagen]

So there I am.

Blazing my way up the highway 26 hill by the zoo in my Vanagon. Doing 60-65 and carving my way through traffic like a hot knife. Then it happens. The power cuts out and I look at the dash and the oil light is staring out at me like the Eye of Sauron. I frantically stomp the clutch and kill the engine while looking for a hole in traffic to the shoulder. Lanes begin to sprout from nowhere as the oil light grows to the size of a grapefruit. With a start I realize I'm safe in my bed, clutching my pillow and it is two in the morning.

Camry drivers don't have dreams like this.

[Amskeptic]

So there I am.

Blazing my way up the highway 26 hill by the zoo in my Vanagon. Doing 60-65 and carving my way through traffic like a hot knife. Then it happens. The power cuts out and I look at the dash and the oil light is staring out at me like the Eye of Sauron. I frantically stomp the clutch and kill the engine while looking for a hole in traffic to the shoulder. Lanes begin to sprout from nowhere as the oil light grows to the size of a grapefruit. With a start I realize I'm safe in my bed, clutching my pillow and it is two in the morning.

Camry drivers don't have dreams like this.

That was me.
Vanpire Tolkien
(p.s. you passed the test)

[tristessa]

.. don't scare us like that. :-/

[Bleyseng]

Thank god you mistook the gen light for the oil light in your 71. You just threw a fan belt and you have no spare nor tools.
How long can you go on the battery and keep stopping so you don't cook the engine? BTDT

[Runamuck Bus]

I'm just glad that 'lucky lab' is no longer the top topic, thanks, sweet dreams.

[Amskeptic]

Thank god you mistook the gen light for the oil light in your 71. You just threw a fan belt and you have no spare nor tools.
How long can you go on the battery and keep stopping so you don't cook the engine? BTDT

BTDT . . . ?

Buy The Damn Thing?

[Amskeptic]

I'm just glad that 'lucky lab' is no longer the top topic, thanks, sweet dreams.

How is that bus of yours?
Colin

[Runamuck Bus]

Thank you so much for asking. She is resting, quietly, under a heavy blanket of snow in the exact same spot that you left her 2 itinerant seasons ago. The 2012, 'this bus is going on the road!' visit was derailed by multiple (oh, 3 or 4) back fractures. Once again, I vow - 'the bus is going on the road this year!'.

[Bleyseng]

Thank god you mistook the gen light for the oil light in your 71. You just threw a fan belt and you have no spare nor tools.
How long can you go on the battery and keep stopping so you don't cook the engine? BTDT

BTDT . . . ?

Buy The Damn Thing?

BeenThereDoneThat with a 67 splitty in Southern Oregon in 1970. Made it to Small town where I was able to install a fan belt. I hate borrowing a friends car as this how things usually turn out for me. Nowadays it's my car or I rent. Lessons learned via the school of hard knocks.

[Amskeptic]

Lessons learned via the school of hard knocks.

Oh yes, oh yesindeedy, the school with the exorbitant tuition.
Colin

[Bleyseng]

and no government loans to cover that tuition, its pay as you go. I never did get my diploma either, how about you or you still attending?

[drober23]

NTSFAS (now there's some funny a## sh## for those who hate acronyms).

I was already sharing the story with a buddy at work, then got to the part where it was a dream. I enjoyed the mental imagery of your Vanagon carving its way through traffic at 60-65 mph. I suppose my bus would do that in its dreams too.

[Bleyseng]

yeah, that's nice imagery of a Vanagon because if it's a bus its weaving it's way thru traffic its got a worn out center pin and sloppy steering.