Chris: This is how it works.
You get a piece of ribbon or light cloth.
You tie this ribbon to a #2 Pencil and hold it up in the air.
The ribbon or cloth is light weight and in effect behaves like a windsock
at an airport.
Watch the way the tail of the ribbon is pointing ................. while
looking alternately at a local state map and back at the ribbon you
search for lakes, rivers, State parks or recreational areas in the
direction the tail of the ribbon is pointing.
This saves fuel, gives you better speeds because you have what is called
a tail wind.
The alternate to explaining your unexplained increase in performance is
simply that all the parts that are going to fail have synchronized and
you'll soon have a multi part disaster.

Stan Wilder

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 12:48:53 -0400 Chris S <mrvolkswagen@HOTMAIL.COM>
writes:
> First of all, this is my first post in, oh 3 months.  Did you miss
> me?
> Don't answer that out loud.  I missed you.
>
> Secondly, I recently replaced a knocking outer CV joint and changed
> my oil.
> On the way back from the shop where I performed the repairs I
> noticed that
> the vibration I had in 3rd gear, the one that's been there for the 3
> years
> since I bought my Westy, is gone, and the van is FASTER.  During the
> entire
> return trip, some 45 miles on the interstate, I held back to 70 mph
> but the
> van did not slow down up the hills the way it used to.
>
> Can an old, dry CV joint rob that much power?
>
>
> Chris S.
> '85 Westy - now with 176K miles no leaks from the heads.
> www.knology.net/~vw/
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wolfsburg_campers
>
>

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