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Fix your Rabbit with a Bus
Warning: This message may not be suitable for all Bus lovers.
The boy’s Rabbit never ceases to amaze us. It has been quite a while since
it broke down last so we were thinking perhaps we had worked through all of
the problems since buying it last Fall. Well, after today we’ve come up with
the perfect plan to end all of the boy’s Rabbit woes.
About a week and a half ago the boy was stopped for the 6th time by our friendly local law enforcement. Each time, the boy endures a vehicle search
and words of wisdom. The last time they warned him for a loud exhaust, so
the boy went to the local parts store to order some exhaust parts. This was
the first time he had ordered parts on his own. Nick was helping him put on
the new exhaust yesterday and soon discovered that what the boy was given
was definitely not right. Now with all of the parts stores closed at noon,
he was pretty much stuck with what parts were here at home, since he had to
have it fixed by Monday.
The muffler was wrong but Nick cobbled it together and made it work. Later,
the boy confessed that the counter guy said they would have to order the
right muffler but that they had the diesel model in stock. The boy learned
his first lesson that all mufflers are not the same. For a tailpipe, the
counter guy sold him an extension pipe because the boy didn’t want to special order the correct one. Well, Nick looked around to see what we might
have laying around that would work for a tailpipe. You would never guess
what he came up with. It almost made me cry but than in some strange way
this all started to make sense.
He found a bypass tube from his Bus’s heat exchangers that made the perfect
tailpipe for the Rabbit. The Bus’s heat exchangers have been long gone with
the 50 gallon bucket of rust that was removed during the restoration. So
here is our new plan, since the Bus has been so reliable, whenever we need a
part for the Rabbit we are going to see if something off of the Bus will
fit. Eventually, we figure we will have a Rabbit with a multitude of Bus
parts and it will be the best running Rabbit in town. Heck we could even
take the old engine out and put an air cooled one in. That would take care
of his antifreeze leak!
Sherri Corrao |
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