It’s 5 degrees out – we just survived a 3 day snowfest – and yeah, I went out and started up the bus. It struggled with the first turn of the key, the starter slowly chugged to life – the engine fired up, but then died. I pumped the pedal a couple more times, turned the key, it roars to life! I kept my foot on the pedal for a few seconds to keep the engine going, and then backed off the gas. The engine idles smooth, sounds great. No, I didn’t drive it around in the snow, but still – if the stupid thing starts when its this cold, I have to think it is good to go.
I snapped the pic above as a car drove by to illuminate the awesome event, and I made another video of my beautiful engine running, even in the cold, but I didn’t want to post it because then people might come across my youtube channel and think I have some weird VW engine fetish… which I don’t! … I think
I also spent some time crawling around underneath the bus, confirming that some genius of a previous owner had decided to add a real hack-job of a weld to the front bumper brackets. They are now solidly attached to the bus, and I can’t actually fit a wrench behind them to put the bumper on. I’ll be figuring out the least destructive way of removing these shortly.
Its supposed to be -15 below next week – lets see if any more body panels try to fall off!
