Same here... on the 20 or so trips my '84 westy has made on the Alcan hwy, i can certainly recall a number of times the rear window was opaque with canadian dirt (and what friendly dirt it is!). There is most definitely a low pressure zone back there behind the van... the straps on my little bike rack hanging down, barely moving attest to that. Mine's obviously 2wd, so the syncro-ness of things makes no difference -Damon Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM> wrote:On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 09:33 PM, Andrew Grebneff wrote: > Rear wipers on these vans are really just decorations. I've noticed > that even on dirty wet roads and gravel roads, no crap gets onto the > rear window, and I've never actually NEEDED the wiper. Except when > dew has formed there. Really? Wow. My experience is quite the reverse. On the dirt roads of West Virginia that I travel, my rear window gets so cruddy (in dry conditions) that the rear washer fluid makes a nasty sludge back there that won't come off without a good solid cleaning. I'm driving a Syncro though, so perhaps that is a factor in the difference. '84 Westy
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