I'm gonna go ahead and send this again because I sent it at the begining of
the down time and have only gotten one reply. Hope someone can help me with
this stuff.

>
>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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