Interesting questions, but why not just carry the correct spare? My
27x8.5x14 fits in the carrier (on the factory alloy rim).

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Per Lindgren [SMTP:lindgre@online.no]
        Sent:   Tuesday, October 26, 1999 7:42 PM
        To:     Syncro; vanagon
        Subject:        [Syncro] Another 6 million dollar question

        From: Per Lindgren <lindgre@online.no>

        EMZ wrote:

        >    Congratulations to: Dave Bogle
        >                        Angus Gordon
        >                        Rainer Woitok
        >                        Tom Neal
        >
        >      These guys are IMHO the top Syncro Mechanics of the list.
        >
        >   The knob is located on a small round shaft, that spins freely.
        > Therefore turning it just turns the shaft. This leads one to
        > beleive it is not threaded on, but like all VW things, a simple
        > hidden engineering trick.

        Only this time, its not VW! If I'm not wrong, its VDO, the knob is
made
        by Helphos, possibly also the switch.

        I also have another question! Also Syncro specific, but I guess
        everybody should take a stab at this one.

        Picture this; you are out off-roading in the forest or down a
logging
        road in your Syncro, enjoying the scenery when you get a flat tire,
the
        right front gets a small nail in it. You are 20 miles from the
nearest
        surfaced road, another 40 miles to the nearest place to get the tire
        fixed, and it's a sunday afternoon. Your Syncro is equipped with
        27x8,5-14, but your spare is the regular 185R14 or 205/70R14, it
doesn't
        matter which. You only have that one spare, and no other tools than
what
        your Syncro came with from the factory. You call the tow truck, but
no
        one wanna help you far into the woods. You know that if you just can
        make it to the road, you can get help.

        Question: How do you get out to the road without ruining your
viscous
        coupling? I have no definite answer, but I have a good theory that
would
        work.

        PerL
        87 Syncro 112i

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