Hi Al. Just put Dixie over the scale on the way back from seeing Bard on the Beach's fantastic version of "Taming of the Shrew" for the second time. Its set as a spaghetti western but with Shakespeare's script intact..... Its great. :) Anyway, Dixie with two 10 lb propane canisters in the luggage rack and the tools that she carries, plus Jake (190) and Maiken (135) look like this: Front: 2376 lbs Rear: 1936 lbs Total: 4312 lbs 2.1 litre WBX, 4 speed, pretty full tank of gas, alloys with 15" tires. Either way, I make it out to be 55/45 weight distribution. Anybody else have any hard data? On 9/4/07, Alistair Bell <albell@uvic.ca> wrote: > > your excuse is why hearsay evidence is not allowed in court :) > I weighed my van, holiday kit including canoe, at Kamloops scale one > summer. I can't find those data either, but I do recall the gross weight > being well in the 5000 # range. > > ab > > > > On 4-Sep-07, at 12:25 PM, Jake de Villiers wrote: > > Apparently so! :) > > My fault. I'd swear I was told that Syncros had a strut-type front > suspension. Never actually looked at/worked on one. > > Still, its not a comparison that makes any sense; its apples and oranges. > > I'm trying to find what happened to my weight figures for the three vans I > put over the scales: GL, Westy Weekender and full Westy. As I recall it, > we had more than a 55% front bias with two up and camping gear in the > luggage rack but I can't find the damn numbers........... > > Jake > >
-- Jake 1984 Vanagon GL 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie" www.crescentbeachguitar.com |
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