Date:         Fri, 24 Sep 1999 15:56:29 -0600
Reply-To:     "Jon B. Kanas" <kanas@QUALITY.QADAS.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Jon B. Kanas" <kanas@QUALITY.QADAS.COM>
Subject:      Locks, Windows, Viscous Coupling
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Good Morning fellow listers,

Power Locks:  I am interested in retrofitting my 1987 Syncro Westfalia
with power locks.  Has anybody on the list done this?  Do any of our
friendly listers (or list vendors) have a Vanagon with electric locks that
they are parting out where I might obtain all required paraphanalia to
perform this conversion?  For those of you who already have electric
locks, does the rear hatch lock / unlock electrically also??

Power Windows:  Any listers converted from manual to power windows?

Viscous Coupling:  In August, on a ninety degree day, I loaded up the
Syncro and drove to Denver with some friends.  The drive duration was
approximately 50 minutes at 75 to 80 mph.  When I got off of the freeway,
the viscous coupling was obviously engaged.  After stopping for about 10
minutes, it was back in 2WD and has subsequently behaved normally.  About
a month later, I drove it several hundred miles on a camping vacation and
experienced no further strange behavior.  Has anyone experienced anything
similar?

Thanks,
Jon