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Subject: [TR] Trip for Anniversary
From: TR3driver at ca.rr.com (Randall)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 22:39:30 -0700
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Most important: cell phone & AAA+ card.

Beyond that depends on what, realistically, you are willing to do on the
side of the road.  Fan belt, hoses, fuses, and enough tools to replace them.
I like to carry a DMM with clip leads and some extra DOT 5 (because it can
be hard to find in stores).  Some drinking water is always welcome on long
trips, and in an emergency can fill the radiator enough to limp to a filling
station.

I carry a spare distributor (loaded with cap, rotor, points, wires) in the
center of the spare tire (along with the belt & hoses in a zip-lock bag), as
well as a backup electric fuel pump.  Never needed them myself, but others
in the caravan have. (5 of us once spent the better part of a Sunday
afternoon roaming around the Oregon countryside, 800 miles from home,
looking for a TR4A rotor.)

-- Randall  


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