Re: engine bolts

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 19:02:00 GMT, "Jeffrey T. Barnes" , who was sitting in a corner eating his Xmas pie stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum and began to run off at the mouth like so:

where are the bolts located to remove the engine on a 1974 bug ? I found
>one behind the engine behind the fan housing and two just above the forks
>where s the third ?
>

You mean where's the fourth? You probably already found them all. Lots of people leave the fourth one out. The one you found behind the fan housing...it was over on the right hand side of the car, right? As you're looking at the car from behind, I mean. The passenger side in the US. Lots of people leave out the one on the upper left.

-- Travis (Shaggie) '63 VW Camo Baja...

Mine was too! Turns out it was behind the stairs in the PO's garage!

why would they leave this one out???

Or if you know computers -

There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that know binary and those that don't.

:-)

That's Great Dan!...............LOL

Remove "YOURPANTIES" to reply MUADIB®

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:58:24 GMT, "Dan Smith" , who was sitting in a corner eating his Xmas pie stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum and began to run off at the mouth like so:

chmod 700 * ;-)

(translation: I have the right to do everything. Everyone else has the right to do NOTHING)

Hey, it's binary...

/nerdiness for the night. :wq!

-- Travis (Shaggie) '63 VW Camo Baja...

vi Rules !!!!

Rob.

Actualy 700 is 0700, and that is a 12 bit number written in Octal :)

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:51:30 -0400, "VWGirl" , who was sitting in a corner eating his Xmas pie stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum and began to run off at the mouth like so:

Laziness? Because it can be a pain in the butt to install since the clutch linkage is kinda in the way? They feel it's overkill? When I discovered my 4th bolt was missing I posted to RAMVA about it and told it was common to find it missing if the engine had been out before. I found an appropriate bolt for it at my local hardware store and now I have all 4 bolts in place. For some of the stuff I put my car through I figured it sure couldn't hurt to have it in there, but it might hurt to *not* have it in there.

-- Travis (Shaggie) '63 VW Camo Baja...

I'm a UNIX user from the days before vi and emacs. Do you remember ed? Ouch!

Octal to binary conversion! I'm impressed with your nerdiness.

/* wq? 'write and quit'? */

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:51:48 GMT, "Dan Smith" , who was sitting in a corner eating his Xmas pie stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum and began to run off at the mouth like so:

No... I've been working with computers for over 20 years now but didn't start using unix until about 7-8 years ago. I can get around in it but I'm no expert.

-- Travis (Shaggie) '63 VW Camo Baja...

On Fri, 11 Jul 2003 21:59:54 GMT, "Dan Smith" , who was sitting in a corner eating his Xmas pie stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum and began to run off at the mouth like so:

while {1} {drink(beer)}; :-)

-- Travis (Shaggie) '63 VW Camo Baja...

I like that while loop! How TRUE! How TRUE! :-)

Geez I bet it wasn't even called IT back then. I remember punch cards. I used to play with them when dad brought them home from work.

Jan

Actually Eduardo 700 is a perfectly acceptable octal number. The problem is it's also a perfectly acceptable decimal number and hexadecimal number.

The leading zero doesn't really 'make' it octal, it just informs the compiler or script interpreter or whatever utility that it should be treated as an octal number.

:( I was born on the other side of the computer tracks: Digital Equipment Corporation PDP/11s under RSTS/E and RT11 and RSX, then onto VAXen. Talk about some useless expertise, eh? Oy! I may as well have learned ACVW. (Say, there's an idea for a new command language - one with the Wear Bit turned on.)

Yeah right! Thanks a lot Jan!

I suppose you could have made me feel even older by saying, 'Geez I thought they still used the abacus back then!' :-) (I'm not that old. I used a slide rule!)

I have a feeling you know as much about punch cards and DP as I do. I'll bet you even remember why they used to call memory 'core memory'. Do you?

If I remember correctly, PDP/7s and /11s were critical in the development of UNIX, C, and some other world class products.

Does anyone remember CDC Cyber 1000's?