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Date:         Wed, 27 Oct 1999 10:23:57 -0400
Reply-To:     "Forhan, Thomas" <Thomas.Forhan@MAIL.HOUSE.GOV>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         "Forhan, Thomas" <Thomas.Forhan@MAIL.HOUSE.GOV>
Subject:      Re: [Syncro] Another 6 million dollar question
Comments: To: Per Lindgren <lindgre@online.no>, Syncro <Syncro@onelist.com>

Interesting questions, but why not just carry the correct spare? My 27x8.5x14 fits in the carrier (on the factory alloy rim).

-----Original Message----- From: Per Lindgren [SMTP:lindgre@online.no] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 7:42 PM To: Syncro; vanagon Subject: [Syncro] Another 6 million dollar question

From: Per Lindgren <lindgre@online.no>

EMZ wrote:

> Congratulations to: Dave Bogle > Angus Gordon > Rainer Woitok > Tom Neal > > These guys are IMHO the top Syncro Mechanics of the list. > > The knob is located on a small round shaft, that spins freely. > Therefore turning it just turns the shaft. This leads one to > beleive it is not threaded on, but like all VW things, a simple > hidden engineering trick.

Only this time, its not VW! If I'm not wrong, its VDO, the knob is made by Helphos, possibly also the switch.

I also have another question! Also Syncro specific, but I guess everybody should take a stab at this one.

Picture this; you are out off-roading in the forest or down a logging road in your Syncro, enjoying the scenery when you get a flat tire, the right front gets a small nail in it. You are 20 miles from the nearest surfaced road, another 40 miles to the nearest place to get the tire fixed, and it's a sunday afternoon. Your Syncro is equipped with 27x8,5-14, but your spare is the regular 185R14 or 205/70R14, it doesn't matter which. You only have that one spare, and no other tools than what your Syncro came with from the factory. You call the tow truck, but no one wanna help you far into the woods. You know that if you just can make it to the road, you can get help.

Question: How do you get out to the road without ruining your viscous coupling? I have no definite answer, but I have a good theory that would work.

PerL 87 Syncro 112i

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