JUST HANG IN THERE ALL YOU (FT 2WD) WESTY WANNA BE'S.
I have it from several vendors that a limited slip differential is in
development for us.

I have been in pursuit of this for 2 yrs now and it is coming. Both Weddle
Engineering (West coast) and Long Enterprises (East coast) are working on
getting this out to customers soon.

Sean Garrett
1981 Westy (his)
1995 Eurovan Camper (hers)
sean.garrett@asu.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Beierl [mailto:dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET]
> Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 11:47 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Switching bodies between chassis advice seeked
>
>
> At 01:02 AM 10/28/2002, Brian D Butler wrote:
> >I'm considering switching bodies between a 7 passenger
> syncro and a 2wd
> >weekender camper, that way, the camper gets mounted on a
> syncro chassis.
> >   Anyone out there have experience with this? Is there any
> difference
> > between a 2wd and a syncro body?
> >Is this easily done by a backyard mechanic?
>
> AFAIK these are unit-body vehicles with no separate chassis.
> However I
> believe it's been done to take all the running gear off a
> Syncro and put it
> on a 2WD vehicle.  You might try the Syncro list for this...I
> don't think
> it's an entirely trivial exercise.
>
> david
>
>
> --
> David Beierl - Providence RI USA --
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'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage"
'85 GL "Poor Relation"