

| Subject: | VC failure symptoms |
| Date: | Wed, 10 Sep 1997 21:30:23 -0700 |
Dan, I've seen Or_felt_ the vibration symptom before! We tried MANY things to cure this one ; Replace the driveline with a New One. Still there. Took the driveline off noise and feeling went away? Old driveline back on, noise back! Humm. After closer inspection we found that the exhaust pipe from 1-3 was touching the Subframe at a certain speed and load causing this noise and vibration. I guess a combination of the Rear Motor Mounts, along with the Trans mount becoming weak, the engine and trans sagged enough to let the pipe touch! Our customer was a budget minded one, he wanted us to clearance the subframe. We cut a "slot" in it so the pipe had room to move. We didn't take away anything from the structure of the subframe doing this. The slot is about 1" by 5"'s. I've heard other people having this problem too? I've told a few people about this scenerio and others have found it too. Ironically we had a second Syncro at the same time as this first one do this at the same time? Maybe the mounts have sagged and ovetime this is bound to happen? Hope this info is useful to someone. Kyle -- Kyle Wade (408) 429-9424 Hm # Keeper of the Volks-Motorsports page Home Page - http://www.volks-motorsports.com
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