At 04:35 PM 4/23/2001, john tomljenovic wrote:
>I thought I had the right tires, I have brand new michielins, agilis
>61c. set at pressures recommended by michielins web site. so I should
>be OK there.  I decided on these tires thanks to the archives in fact.

I'm presuming that's somewhere in the neighborhood of 36F/48R for 185R14 size?

>Although will look into the flex coupling situation. Alot of the rubber
>is dried out on this thing, I guess thats the trade off for having
>minimal rust for an 83.5.

It is.  I had the chance to compare my (Scotland/New England) '84 with an
Arizona '84 -- mine has tons of rust but the rubber stuff is in pretty good
shape.  The other had little to no rust but all the rubber was hard and
cracked.

I assume you saw Frank's note about U-joint vs rubber coupler.

david

David Beierl - Providence, RI
  http://pws.prserv.net/synergy/Vanagon/
'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"