New rear stress bar

[juliemac57 at hotmail.com (Julie Macfarlane)]

Maybe Cathy should check to see if they set up house in her cars  :)



Julie Macfarlane
1981 MKI 2L 16v
Amsterdam NY





>From: "T. Reed" <treed2@wsu.edu>
>To: L F <rocco16v@netzero.net>
>CC: Captnbr@aol.com, scirocco-L@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: New rear stress bar
>Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 03:52:58 -0800 (PST)
>
>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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