U-shaft

[geordy at hotmail.com (Geordy Rostad)]

The stealership claims the MK1 and MK2 manual steering Scirocco u-staft is 
the same part number.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc Getty" <marc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Mark F.'" <mk1mark@xxxxxxxxx>; <Scirocco-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:33 AM
Subject: RE: U-shaft


>
> On 8/8/07, Geordy Rostad <geordy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Anyone have a manual steering u-joint shaft from a
>> MK1 they'd like to sell me at a reasonable price?
>
> On 8/8/07, Mark F. <mk1mark@xxxxxxxxx> responded:
>> I'll be swapping out the manual one in my Caddy for the
>> power unit from the 16v Scirocco.  Are you in a hurry
>> for it?  I'll be removing it from the Caddy this weekend.
>> Just shoot me the shipping cost and it's yours...  Email
>> me your address offlist.
>
> On 8/8/07, Mark F. <mk1mark@xxxxxxxxx> added:
>> Turns out Rabbit and Scirocco u-joints are different...  So
>> Geordy still needs one!
>
> "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to 
> choose
> from" -Andrew Tanenbaum
>
> I believe most, if not all, of the different A1 models have different
> u-joints, including the differences between the Scirocco Mk1 and Mk2. On 
> top
> of this, I believe that each model has a different u-joint for power
> steering and manual steering.
>
> Long ago when switching my RIP 16v from power to manual steering at 
> Peter's
> place we had a collection of between 6 and 10 different u-joints. Only the
> u-joint for a Mk2 Scirocco with manual steering could be used to do the
> switch. No Mk1, Rabbit, Caddy, etc. u-joint would fit.
>
> We may be blessed by the VW system of using a limited number of chassis, 
> but
> we are also cursed by this as well.
>
> -Marc
>
> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
> '83 VW Scirocco California Edition
> '84 VW GTI Pickup Truck
>
>
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