Syncronauts, On Wed, 1998-12-09 16:22:48 -0800, Björn wrote: > ... > When VW tested the Viscous coupling initially the took out the rear > driveshafts and dove up and down Germany and found that there was very > little performance difference. (I have the original test data somewhere). On the net? Or at least in electronic form? Would make very interesting reading, methinks. > As for Rainer, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Sometimes you > just need to replace the fluid than the whole thing. That was my idea, too. At least at first. But then I had to learn that in Germany and Austria nobody could be found who did repair viscous couplings. Not even Steyr-Daimler-Puch themselves. And they not even wanted the old VC back in exchange as is (or at least was) the case with, say, clutches at your FLAPS. Is this different in USA or Canada?
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