RE: [ihc] new travelall

["Ed Sohm" <idaemes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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.