Same here... on the 20 or so trips my '84 westy has made on the Alcan hwy, i can certainly recall a number of times the rear window was opaque with canadian dirt (and what friendly dirt it is!).  There is most definitely a low pressure zone back there behind the van... the straps on my little bike rack hanging down, barely moving attest to that.
Mine's obviously 2wd, so the syncro-ness of things makes no difference

-Damon

 Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM> wrote:On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 09:33 PM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:

> Rear wipers on these vans are really just decorations. I've noticed
> that even on dirty wet roads and gravel roads, no crap gets onto the
> rear window, and I've never actually NEEDED the wiper. Except when
> dew has formed there.

Really? Wow. My experience is quite the reverse. On the dirt roads of
West Virginia that I travel, my rear window gets so cruddy (in dry
conditions) that the rear washer fluid makes a nasty sludge back there
that won't come off without a good solid cleaning. I'm driving a Syncro
though, so perhaps that is a factor in the difference.

'84 Westy

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