Date:         Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:30:44 +0100
Reply-To:     "Dr. Rainer Woitok" <woitok@RRZE.UNI-ERLANGEN.DE>
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From:         "Dr. Rainer Woitok" <woitok@RRZE.UNI-ERLANGEN.DE>
Organization: RRZE (Regionales Rechenzentrum Erlangen)
Subject:      Re: viscous (! :-) coupling (was: vanagon Digest - 9 Dec 1998 -
              Special issue)
Comments: To: Björn <bratjen@DIRECT.CA>
Comments: cc: vanagon@VANAGON.COM
In-Reply-To:  Msg <E0zntsW-0001HC-00@edam.direct.ca> of 1998-12- 9 16:22:48
              -0800 from bratjen@DIRECT.CA
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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?


Sincerely
 Rainer

'89 Caravelle GL Syncro 16"

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