Hi Robert, hi Syncronauts,

On Thu, 1999-06-10 08:09:36 -0400, Robert Rountree wrote:

> ...
>                                                                      the
> main front to rear drive shaft is still IN, turning the VC, but NO CV shafts
> are connected to the front dif, only the outside CV halves are used to hold
> the wheel bearing together....

It   seems  there's always a  way  to  achieve a goal   in  a still more
complicated  manner.    Instead of having  to  undo  just eight bolts to
remove the  main drive shaft,  it's now twenty  four bolts and twelve of
these bolts have then to be inserted again (or maybe have to be replaced
by   shorter bolts).  And  then  ... the inner    sides of the CV halves
exposed to dirt and debris ...  ugh.  Can you really expect to get these
CV halves operational ever again?

Other than  that, I think   the effect with   respect to castrating  the
Syncro is exactly the same.  And  no, I can't see  how this could do any
damage to the front diff or to the VC.  In this case the VC is driven by
the  main drive shaft,   the VC drives  the  fron diff, which turns  the
flanges for the half shafts, which in turn turn air.

In the standard castrating set-up it's exactly  the other way round: the
half shafts drive the front diff, which drives  the VC, which then turns
air at its input flange.  Well this input flage  has perhaps an eigth of
the square inches   of both those half  shaft  flanges combined  ...  so
probaly less air is turned by this standard set-up, but that's about all
the differences I can think of :-)

So, to sum it up: no, I don't think that could ruin  the VC or the front
diff, but I definitely think it will ruin the front CV halves.

Have a nice weekend, everybody :-)

Sincerely
 Rainer

'89 Caravelle GL Syncro 16"

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