On the way home from work last night, around 1 am, I stopped at the local
weigh scale (Victoria B.C. list members -> at Elk lake ) . Nobody around but
the scale is left on...

Rolled the front wheels on: 980 kg
Entire van: 1850 kg
Rear wheels: 870 kg

As is, that's a 53/47 weight distribution.

subtract "cargo" from front weight:

approx 50 litres of fuel, about 37 kg.
human, about 90 kg

gives:

853 kg front
1723 kg all
870 kg rear (assumed the same)

which results in an approx. 50/50 distribution

Van is '82 westy, I4 conversion.

Alistair

albell@uvic.ca
'82 Westy, diesel=>I4 gas

/"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign
\ / No HTML/RTF in email
 X  No Word docs in email
/ \ Respect Open Standards!