Date:         Sun, 11 May 1997 05:30:02 GMT
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From:         bhkraft@gj.net (Brian Kraft)
Subject:      Re: 87 syncro: replacing exhaust components

On Sat, 10 May 1997 SSGSPEAR@aol.com (Brad Spear) wrote:

>I just replaced that pipe on my '87 last year. It IS a specific pipe and the
>only place in the Mpls/St Paul area I could find it was VW.  It was $252
>(thank goodness for the 15% VW Club discount!).  What Bently also doesn't tell
>you is that you have to drop the skid plates to get the old pipe off and the
>new one on.  Found that one out the hard way.
>
>SSG Brad Spear
>'72 Westy
>'87 Syncro GL

Is that where the skid rail can contact the exhaust if it's bent up?
I bent my skid frame again on a bad road and I think that the low
rumble that I hear now isn't a cracked exhaust, but the skid rail
contacting either the engine frame or an exhaust pipe; this has
happened before, has it happened to anyone else?  Except for the
muffler, I haven't had to replace any exhaust parts yet.
-- 
Brian Kraft <bhkraft@gj.net> Grand Junction, Colorado
'86 Westy GL Syncro http://www.gj.net/~bhkraft/pic00020.jpg
-- 
Radio For Sale:
VW/Audi Heidelberg Cassette Radio, 1986 Vanagon option (USA)
see the 70k .JPG photo at:  http://www.gj.net/~bhkraft/vw-radio.jpg
code free - manufactured just before security code feature was added
made in Japan by Matsushita Co.
VW part # 161 035 180 C (superseded)
cost ? in '86; sell for $125
(I replaced it with a Philips DC-777 AM/FM/SW CR)