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[Kurt K]

Just thought I'd let you guys know that I made it home to St. Louis without any major problems. Despite all of the rain in Florida last week, we were pretty lucky and it only interferred with our plans for a total of about 5 hours.

As for the problems/observations, well here goes:

1) When killing a gnat (or any other insect) on the inside of the windshield in the hot sun, be sure not to hit your hand near a small cluster of rock chips. Anyway, I barely (and I mean barely) bumped the windshield to smash the gnat and I had to look thru a couple of cracks the whole drive home. And I didn't even flatten the gnat, but he did die.

2) If you accidently leave an A/C gauge adapter on the hig-pressure line when recharging the A/C, don't leave it there just because you have a cap for it but not a cap for the fitting. The adapter managed to loosen itself up during my long drive home and I didn't have A/C for the last 4 hours of my drive--it was 85º or more. It was quite obvious that the freon leaked out at the adapter.

3) Fix bent wheels/tire problems before attempting a 3k mile trip.

Here are the stats:

3106 miles
172 gals premium
$1.61 avg price/gal
18.1 mpg (with 3.73's and non-lockup convertor)

PS Bryan: check your pm

[kamakazie_1]

We are used to insects down here Kurt, you don't swat at them just open the window a little and listen to them scream as they get sucked out at speed!! :D :D

Glad you made it home dude!! We sure enjoyed your visit with us here in O-Town and hope to do that again, next time you come this way.

RJ

[onequiksc]

Kurt, glad you and Jenn made it home in one piece. I know you're not looking forward to tearing it down to see what happened, but it may be enlightening. I'm sure your curiousity is killing you on it. I can't even muster a guess.

I guess the gnat won round 1. Payback's a bitch though, -that's gonna be one dead gnat the next time. :)


I can't figure how you managed to dodge the rain (for the most part) but throw a little of that luck our way, as Ter and I leave for New England in 2 days. Cheers D.

[TbirdSC93]

It was nice to meet you Kurt and glad you came to the meet. Glad you made it home ok.