Nick's right - power only cuts in at the back when there's slip at the front. There is a drive out the back of the gearbox which splits the output 50:50 and the viscous coupling (VC) is at the back, right in front of the rear diff. There is a cunning arrangement of switches on the gearbox that controls a vacuum operated freewheel on the rear drive, too. By disconnecting the power on gearchanges the danger of transmission wind-up (which the T25 Transporter suffers from, big-style in certain situations) are minimised.
A few features mine now has after a little session today include an oil pressure gauge, an oil temperature gauge and an air:fuel ratio gauge. It also has a 21W rear foglight on the dashboard, which lights up if there's no oil pressure. Now THAT's an idiot light
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Other bits over the past few days include replacing the front springs with the ones off a Toledo 2.0 8V Sport, which I broke recently. After a slight
moment when I put them on the ride height has now settled at something near acceptable (to me, who doesn't do ride/handling/back damaging 'slammed'). Tracking and camber needs setting now, although according to my calculations (using spirit levels) it's got about -1 on both sides - can't do the tracking quite as easily.
At the moment I'm not happy about the rear end - it's too light and a bit skittish. As soon as I can I'll get the battery and washer bottle relocated back there, which should even things up quite a lot.
Then it's a cage.
Then bucket seats and proper harnesses..
Then independent throttlebodies and megasquirt.
Or maybe I'll just get on with enjoying it.
Last Friday in June at Castle Combe, Nick?
