At 11:08 PM 3/31/99 -0800, jimkim wrote:
>My two cents on this issue(fwiw) is the engineers at vw designed the final
>drive ratios on our vanagons to complement the horse power and torque of the
>engines they put into them. Most of the troubles I've had with my
>vanagon(when I was a newbie) came from trying to out think the boys from
>Stuttgart. when I settled down and appreciated my westy for the finely
>engineered piece of machinery that it is, studied it a bit and played by the
>rules, I've had mile after trouble free mile out of my '83 waterboxer with
>320,000 km.

        Well, you are right I'm sure.  Still, I would like to experiment for the
fun of it.  Perhaps it's psychological problems . . .

        HKS