Now remember i DID say 90%. Rear engine, rear wheel drive,
locking rear... it is a poor man's Syncro.

Thanks,
Chris

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:45:15 +1200
>From: Andrew Grebneff
<andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
>Subject: Re: [Syncro] synrco trans swap into a non-syncro
vanagon
>To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>
>>I have this sneaking suspicion that http://www.2weddle.com/
>>has a five speed vanagon tranny but I could be wrong.
>>
>>Realisticly the main advantage to the syncro tranny would
be
>>to get one with a rear locking differential... for all but
>>the hardcore off roader I am sure it would turn make a
>>standard 2WD van perform 90% as well as the syncro.
>
>Don't bet on it. I got stuck on a sloping loose gravel
shoulder with
>a Mitsubishi Delica 4WD van, which has a good LSD. I had to
engage
>the front wheels to get it onto the road.
>
>Admittedly the delica's diff isn't fully locking, but slip
is little
>enough that you can feel the rear wheels fight one another
in U-turns.
>
>--
>Andrew Grebneff
>165 Evans St, Dunedin 9001, New Zealand
><andrew.grebneff@stonebow.otago.ac.nz>
>Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut