I would not put a straight shaft in place of the VC, because you immediately
loose your AWD on pavement ability.
AND ..you loose the natural 'ABS Brakes - affect' of having the front and
rear axles connected , like under heavy breaking.

the only reason to have a solid shaft is for ultra hard core off road use,
where a solid shaft will perform better than a VC.

you'd be taking out the AWD feature.
and going backwards to 4WD ..
as I said, only for very enhanced off rode use, and you loose much of your
pavement abilities.
Except for that narrow focus for extreme off road...
losing the VC is a bad thing.

Scott
www.turbovans.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay lefstein" <jleftbrane@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:34 AM
Subject: another syncro question

> Hello vanadudes. I was thinking of getting a decoupler for my new
> syncro.. does anybody know if I Need to use a straight shaft in place
> of a VC in this case?
>
> I think it would make sense to have the DC and VC together but would
> be interested to hear any thoughts from others on this
>
> Thanks
> J