What I was starting to formulate, was the brilliant solution that one always
finds on the list, if one allows the thread to properly mature.....

Then I saw that somebody on the list, quoting the scripture, seemed to have
nailed this one.

very nice.

I had wanted to suggest taht VW had simply gotten a new OEM parts producer,
since the parts were not anymore "exactly identical" VW saw it fit to assign
a new part number to the new manufacturers strut.

Now can we talk about tires again?  ;-)

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Robert S. Fish
Salzburg, Austria
1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender
1987 Golf Cabriolet
1991 Golf

----- Original Message -----
From: "developtrust" <developtrust@COX.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: Rear hatch struts revisted. Why do they fail?

> To make them last longer, manufacturers of such things
> > recommend mounting them with the cylinder up when they are in their
normal
> position.
> >
>
> Now somehow that makes sense. You do mean cylinder up when the hatch is
> closed, don't you?
>
> William
>