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Subject:Re: Syncros. Positractions, Peloquins, and One Wheel Drives
From:TonyCollin
Date:Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:19:53 -0500

Sorry mr rocket. I don't think you read my whole rambling. The price I mentioned is for mk1-2 vw transmission. And I haven't the slightest of ideas what these go for in the vanagons. 

T. 

On Jan 29, 2014, at 10:43 PM, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:

You find a Peloquin for my Vanagon for ~$150, lemme know where and whether they have more than one.

-- 
Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
Bend, Ore.

> On 01/29/2014 07:39 PM, TonyCollin wrote:
> So what is the damage $$ for a peloquin on a vanagon?
> 
> I know that these are not terribly expensive ~$150 for vw 020 type
> trannies. I guess I never thought what the van would need it for
> until all of this weather. Not even in Michigan where we lived and
> snows deep.
> 
> T.
> 
> On Jan 29, 2014, at 4:23 PM, Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> 
> RE: Peloquin Differentials I have the Peloquin in my '90 Westy
> automatic.  Also limited slip in my daily driver, a '90 T-Bird LX.
> Last winter, shortly after getting the Peloquin in, we had a little
> snow here.  I deliberately went out and found some side streets with
> several inches of undisturbed wet nasty snow.  And was very pleased
> with the performance, couldn't get the Westy to actually spin a wheel
> that I could feel.  Tried hard but I just kept going.  The Nokian
> tires probably helped some also.  And on several occasions I have
> been in mud or sand or loose dirt and realized that I had driven out
> of something that in the past I might have had to deal with
> differently  So far very satisfied with the Peloquin diff even though
> I have not given it any severe tests.
>