Well it's time to order new shocks for the Westy. I am seriously considering
bilsteins, they seem to be the best all around. For some reason KYB just
doesn't seem right, I guess it's because I believe you get what you pay for,
and with the extra weight of the westy I don't want cheapo shocks that will
wear out in 10,000 miles. So I was wondering if campers came from the
factory with the exact same boge shocks as the plain vanagons, and if so
what was the expected life of those shocks?

My second question deals with the poptop skylight flex arm. The two round
plastic washers that hold the end of the arms in the metal sleeve of the
skylight are broken. I can't open or close it without the arms popping out.
Has anyone found a way to fix these when they break? or do I need to plop
down 30 bucks for a whole new mechanism?

Third question may be a little weird. I replaced my CAT with an elimnator
pipe yesterday and when I got the CAT off the inside was empty. This angered
me a little, as I thought I just wasted 30 bucks that I could have spent on
that flex arm. But I was wondering if the fact that the CAT is much bigger
than the exhaust pipe, that when the exhaust reached it, it would require
more pressure to push through the muffler since there was more volume to
fill? I went ahead and put the new pipe on in hope that my crazy thought was
correct and that having the same size pipe clear to the muffler would help a
little. Anybody know if this idea is right?

Thanks,
Nathan
85 Westy
74 Bus

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