How did you get THAT piece of information about the viscous coupling being shared with the Honda Civic 4WD. The owner of Adventurewagen which was doing non-Westy camper conversions for Vanagon told me that line about Porsche designing the viscous coupling unit and Steyr-Damler-Punch buiding the front diff. He even said the name of the Porsche engineer or contact guy on this was a Peter Mutke, someone involved with racing. I know that sounds a little odd, but who is right? Is the viscous coupling unit actually interchangeable with the Honda Civic?!?! By the way, e-mail from Germany here today says that the Syncro is assembled in the same factory and by the same people/employees/workers that make the Mercedes G-Wagon. I am composing a detailed technical letter to Steyr-Daimler-Punch tonight about adding the diff lock to the front final drive unit. They sent me (SDP) an engineering diagram with part numbers showing the front diff but I still have some questions for them.
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