500,000 miles! Cool. Barb Sent from my iPhone
> On Jul 5, 2018, at 5:48 PM, Mark Minton <mmin...@illinoisalumni.org> wrote: > > Thanks, everyone, for sharing the circumstances of Pete's passing. I knew he > had been ill but thought he had improved or at least stabilized. It is a > great loss. > > Pete was the one who pointed out a white, 4WD school bus for sale in south > Austin back in 1980. I bought it and used it for Huautla (and other) trips to > Mexico throughout the '80s. Pete helped me customize the bus for expedition > use. He came up with an innovative deck design that replaced the middle > seats, and used his welding skill to make the necessary brackets. He also > helped me install a second gas tank and mount a second spare tire under the > floor. > > Gas tanks came up several times in my past experiences with Pete. On one > early trip to Cuetzalan we drove Jocie's then-new brown station wagon down > there. That was soon after U.S. cars needed unleaded gas, but it was not yet > required nor widely available in Mexico. We were careful to fill up at every > big city where we could get it. When we got to Cuetzalan (which did not sell > unleaded), we discovered a hole in Jocie's gas tank. We drained the gas into > buckets and Pete removed the gas tank, flushed it with water, and used a Svea > stove to seal the hole with solder. We dried and replaced the tank, refilled > it with the salvaged gas, and made it the rest of the trip. > > Pete also helped me add a second gas tank to my 1984 Toyota pickup (recently > retired with over 500,000 miles). Since Toyota didn't offer second tanks as > an option, I got one from a junk yard. Only problem was, the filler neck and > mounting brackets were on the wrong side. Pete custom-made new brackets and > mounted the tank backwards on the opposite side of the frame from the factory > tank (after I had the exhaust pipe rerouted down the center above the drive > shaft). The filler neck was concealed in the rear wheel well so we didn't > have to cut a hole in the body. That always got raised eyebrows when I filled > up at Pemex stations. I called it mi tanque escondido. > > Pete was very inventive and could usually come up with a way to solve any > problem. He will be greatly missed. > > Mark Minton > mmin...@caver.net > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers ____________________________________________________________ 'Genius' Pill - Top 1% Didn't Want The Public To Know About The Brain Insider http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/5b3e9367139f813612b89st04vuc _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
