RE: [ihc] new travelall

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What is surface rust????  Never heard of that.

Steve


--- Ed Sohm <idaemes@domain.elided> wrote:

> My wife looks at a particular vehicle in the armada
> and asks why I
> bought it.  Some, the answer is just for parts, but
> most I have a plan
> for.  It may be a 5 year plan, a 10 year plan, or a
> retirement plan (I'm
> 35), but a plan nonetheless. The plans change from
> time to time, that is
> ok.  
> I don't let those long term ones bother me.  In
> fact, I see myself ahead
> of the game in that I own them already. Delusional,
> maybe (probably).  
> Plus, I'm getting better at the work it takes to
> maintain them.  Better
> equipped too. It takes less time to do things like
> bleed brakes or
> successfully stop a valve cover leak when you are
> doing it for the 10th
> time. 
> 
> I was impressed by your Travelall, nice and simple
> and clean.  I live in
> the rust belt, generally don't notice rust holes
> smaller than my fist.
> Surface rust is virtually invisible to me.  
> 
> Ed
> 
> 
> 
>      
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John M. Adams [mailto:jma@domain.elided] 
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 1:24 PM
> To: Ed Sohm; 'ken.dunnington'; 'ihc-digest'
> Subject: RE: [ihc] new travelall
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ihc@domain.elided
> [mailto:owner-ihc@domain.elided]On Behalf Of
> Ed
> > Sohm
> > Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 12:39 PM
> > To: 'ken.dunnington'; 'ihc-digest'
> > Subject: RE: [ihc] new travelall
> >
> > I should try buying a decent IH once, rather than
> the dirt cheap ones
> > with lots of issues.  Approval from the wife would
> be a welcome
> change.
> > <g>
> >
> > I was eying John Adams' nice clean Travelall when
> I stopped to see him
> a
> > month ago.  I just couldn't help thinking that
> Jenni would drive
> > something like that.  Then I drag home a dirty
> nasty one out of a
> > junkyard a couple weeks later.  Fell off the
> wagon, I guess.
> >
> 
> Ed is too kind. Or didn't stay long enough to look
> close enough...  My
> T'All
> has lots of issues. Why, even as we speak, it's
> slowly issuing gear oil
> from
> the tranny, engine oil from the oil pan gasket, air
> from the left rear
> tire,
> volatile binding agents from all of the trim and
> vinyl, etc. All of my
> vehicles have issues, including the 3 Binders in
> particular.
> 
> I think my biggest problem is trying to work on all
> of them part time,
> instead of one of them full time, but I can't seem
> to avoid it. How Jim
> and
> Ed those other "accretive" ones amongst us manage to
> stay sane, I don't
> know. If I had *more* than these 3, I'd be toast.
> Happy toast, but toast
> just the same.
> 
> John A.