New rear stress bar

[rocco16v at netzero.net (L F)]

I like your explanation MUCH better, Toby.

Larry
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: T. Reed 
  To: L F 
  Cc: Captnbr@aol.com ; scirocco-L@scirocco.org 
  Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 3:52 AM
  Subject: Re: New rear stress bar


  I have an even better explanation: the magical elves whose secret powers
  protect the strut towers from deflecting more than 0.001" come out at
  night with little pitchforks and pickaxes and hack away at the stress bar
  (their competitor and arch-enemy).

  I know, I found one of their shoes on top of my exhaust manifold.

  -Toby

  On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, L F wrote:

  > I have a logical explanation for that, Brian;
  > The stresss bar is acting like a guitar string; vibrating in both the verticle and horizontal plane.  Do this long enough and with enough amplitude and the bar could crack at the mount hole.
  >  With a loud exhaust, EVERYTHING back there vibrates!!!
  >
  > Larry
  >   ----- Original Message -----
  >   From: Captnbr@aol.com
  >   To: scirocco-L@scirocco.org
  >   Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 6:22 AM
  >   Subject: Re: New rear stress bar
  >
  >
  >   Ok.....here is my totally non-engineering backround laymen take on these
  >   bars.  The bars on occasion have been known to fail and break.  This says to me
  >   that they are absorbing enough forces to cause the bar to fatigue and that they
  >   do actually infact work.
  >
  >
  >   Brian 86 16v
  >   98 Jetta GLX Vr6
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