In a message dated 5/16/05 1:51:59 PM, vanagon@ASTOUND.NET writes:

<< as soon as I can get the cash I will be

installing the manual decoupler and SOLID shaft in place of the vc and will

never look back.  IMHO the vanagon should have had the manual decoupler all

along. >>

I'm with you on that one, but there's a German (maybe Austrian)
Phd-of-something who posts to the Syncro group and he will argue at length that the idea of
shit-canning the VC is foolish.  His point is that the benifits of an
all-wheel drive system in providing superior vehicle control under all road
conditions outweigh its shortcomings.  I guess he has never had a VC eat a transaxle
for lunch.

George