Lucky Me!

[David Thoresen]

Wow!  $500 for a used hose and a free car, what a deal!!!!!!  :)

hehhe

David
1990 90q 20v 190k Miles!

On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 11:47 AM, George Selby wrote:

> I was at work last night, driving the Audi 80, and all of a sudden a 
> cloud of steam erupted from under my hood.  I opened the hood and 
> discovered the hose from the WP to the cylinder head area had a 3 inch 
> long split in it.
>
> After work (2 am,) I called a friend to see if I could get a ride 
> home, or maybe some duct tape for a temporary repair.  He wasn't at 
> home, but was at another friend's house, who happens to live only one 
> block from where I work.  So I drove to his house, and that friends 
> roommates are these, and there is a little beer drinking going on, so 
> I stay for awhile.  Conversation works around, and eventually one of 
> the roommates asks if I want to buy his Jetta, which is sitting 
> outside (needs an alternator, is ~88~ model with 127k miles, auto 
> tranny, he wants $500, I think I'll take it if I can make it run, it 
> is very nice inside, no rust, appear to have no body damage.)  I tell 
> him maybe, I'll go look at it in a few minutes, after I finish this 
> beer.
>
> So I go outside and look at the Jetta.  As I'm looking under the hood, 
> I notice that even though the engine in a Jetta sits sideways as 
> compared to an Audi's the one hose that will interchange between the 
> two is the one that happened to bust in my Audi.  So we remove the 
> hose from the Jetta (what a pain, it had spring clamps you could 
> hardly reach with a set of pliers - took like an hour to get the hose 
> off the Jetta, took 10 minutes to get the hose off and on the Audi 
> with regular German screwdriver type hose clamps) and replaced the 
> hose on my Audi with it, fits perfectly!  I drove home no problem.
>
> George Selby
> gselby4x4 at earthlink.net
>
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