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Date:         Sun, 1 Jun 97 09:27:26 UT
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         "Thomas Niksch" <cct_tom_niksch@msn.com>
Subject:      re: Statz?? and Syncro front sh

--------- Gesendet: Samstag, 31. Mai 1997 14:44 An: Carl_Hansen@ATK.COM Betreff: re: Statz?? and Syncro front sh

Carl Hansen wrote:

Ok, I don't know about you, but I can't read the Statz for beans. It's the part about "where you all tell me you are". I think it's standard abreviations for states and countries, but the alphabetic order seems hosed, or do we just have a lot of canadian listees???? (Where the heck is CAN.ON.OTT, CAN.BC.VAN etc. etc..., anyway??)

Dont know for shure either, would guess it is CANADA.ONTARIO.OTTAWA or CANADA BR.COLUMBIA.VANCOUVER etc.

ACTUALLY - I'm hoping there are lots of Canadian vanogoners, in fact, I hope most of them have Syncro's. And do we have anyone in South Africa?? and how about the members in Europe/England/the Nordic countries etc???

About Europe: Ever had a look at the syncro Westie Hompage of Tom Forhan within the last weeks ?

In France there are about 80 syncros organized in syncro Club France -

p_oudot@wordnet.fr can tell you more about that.

In Germany, Austria, Belgium, Sweden we have almost 90 members in the Ig syncro 16'' not all of them have a 16'' or even a syncro - others have two or three.

To estimate from that, there should be several thousand syncros in private ownership over here. Probably only few owners have Internet and email access in the old world.

I'd like to ask you to call your local or not so local favorite dealer/aftermarketer/shop/whatever and track down what the correct front Bilstein shock is for a SYNCRO Vanagon, vintage '84 or so on to '91. I'm getting some info here in the states, but so far no confirmation that such and such a Bilstein is the correct one for the SYNCRO front. The front shock for the SYNCRO is different because it has a spring perch on it. The standard Vanagon front shock does not.

Tim Smith from Canada smitht@unb.ca has a service manual as far as I know - maybe he could be helpful for your project.

Bye, best regards

Tom Niksch

Munich, Germany


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