On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Rob Wilke wrote:

> My Syncro has been doing the binding in tight turns for a while now and
> only getting worse so, I just pulled my drive shaft out of my 87 Syncro
> and the back part off the shaft came off first. I was able to roll my
> van by turning the shaft by hand. So does this mean the VC is toasted.
  NO. under the conditions it maybe working find.

> Will it hurt anything else to drive without the drive shaft in???
    No I have done this for 3 years now.

Has it
> been established that driving without the shaft does/ does not do damage
> to the VC??
    Will not hurt it.

> Yet another question.  My clutch has been chattering, just a wee bit as
> i first begin to back up and out of my driveway first thing in the
> morning.  (111,000 miles) How much longer do I have????
>
  Clutch chatter has been established to have many causes. So it
would be impossible to answer this question without dismantalling.

> TIA.
>
> ROB
>