Well, yes, you did, about 35 years after the VW engineers got over it : )

Jim

On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> You're right of course. Van cafe looks like the winner here.
>
> Of course I won't mention my uneasiness of adding stainless to the cooling
> system, I don't want to bring up that dissimilar metal, galvanic series,
> argument again.
>
> Oh oh, did I just do it?
>
> Cheers
>
> Alistair
>
>
>
> > On May 20, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >    Buy a S S piece new from you Fav vendor and put your creative juices
> to something you can't buy .
> >
> >
> >                                Stacy
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On May 20, 2014, at 17:00, Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA> wrote:
> >>
> >> This discussion making me nervous, I still have stock plastic
> distribution tower in my syncro. I'd like to make an aluminum replacement
> but I don't have a syncro tower in hand to copy. Any chance anyone has
> measurements or can take measurements so that I could make one?
> >>
> >> I could buy one... I suppose.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Alistair
> >>
> >>
> >>> On May 20, 2014, at 3:07 PM, mark drillock <mdrillock@COX.NET> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> For sure, if you have the money and time to replace everything at once
> >>> then the sky is the limit. I find that the same logic gets applied in
> >>> reverse so I avoid using that logic too much. By that I mean if people
> >>> think it is wasteful to replace aging critical parts unless they are
> >>> also replacing a bunch of other stuff or doing other work in the same
> >>> area then they put off the more critical work until they "can do it all
> >>> at once". I see that happen all the time and sometimes in the mirror.
> >>> The cooling system parts that fail most often on a trip are the ones
> >>> closest to the engine. If you can't do it all at least start there.
> >>>
> >>> Mark
> >>>
> >>> John Schwartz wrote:
> >>>> Just got done doing this job too!!!
> >>>>
> >>>>>
>