Date:         Thu, 6 Sep 2007 23:14:00 -0700
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Some ride height and suspension observations..
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@uvic.ca>
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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
>
>


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Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie"
www.crescentbeachguitar.com