I wanted to thank those that help me with my technical questions.  I pretty
much just drive the think and my days of greasy bloody knuckles are long
over, but I continue to drive my Vanagon. I recently put up a post on my
heating problem....actually a 'lack of' heating problem.  There is no heat at
all but the fans do work. I'm trying to figure a down and dirty way of
analyzing what the problem might be.  Many indicated it might be a heater
core problem.  One thing I should say is, every time I start the Van up, the
temperature gauge goes directly to hot and the light blinks immediately.
This has done this a long time.  The only exception to this has been when
hoses were replaced by my local repair shop. The light did not blink nor did
the gauge go to hot for maybe one day each time, then it would go back to its
evil ways.  Does anybody have any thoughts since I'm assuming there might be
some correlation between the two.  Neither the front nor the rear heater
works, although the fan works on both.

Secondly, I love the Microbus that will be coming out in a few years. I'll
definitely buy one. I went out and bought a Matchbox car in a local
supermarket of the T-5.  Because I've had the flu the past few days, I've had
some time to kill so I put together 56 images of the new Microbus in a
PowerPoint slide presentation.  If anybody would like this, I would be happy
to emailit.  I've gotten them off of many foreign sites and many of the
pictures are great.  There's even a Barbie T-5 now!   Anyway, if anyone would
like this, I'd be happy to to email the slide show.

Thanks again for all the help.

Harold Jaynes
Washington DC