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one of my customers who is a bee keeper bought a syncro td panel van new in 88,he has done every mile on the van in its life,and drives it off road every day going about his bee keeping,the body of the van is nearly perfect with virtually no rust,and theres only one small blemish on one seam brought on by spraying iodine in between feilds in foot n mouth times,at 305,000 miles we fitted a genuine new complete jx motor (£4,500) although it still started ok but oil consumption was high,had it back in recently for a service 357,000 and a check over,in its life its had 3 clutch kits 3 batteries a starter motor and a complete exhaust systym,the transmission,vc,cv joints,prop shaft,are all original and in excellant working order,just goes to shows what can be acheived,cj.

Gives me hope

Last time out i wrecked a new clutch, new turbo and a 3 year old VC

Yes Andy, but you're not a bee keeper.

syncrodoug wrote:Yes Andy, but you're not a bee keeper.

So if i start a collection of bee's my syncro won't break again

Bees don't like to be hurried

you could always sell the honey.and buy a few bits with the money you make from it..

So if i start a collection of bee's my syncro won't break again

Coulda sold the honey in Tunisia for 2 camels, does that count?

R0B wrote:you could always sell the honey.and buy a few bits with the money you make from it..

So if i start a collection of bee's my syncro won't break again

Will need to sell alot of honey with the amount of money syncros absorb.

andy the apiarist...it has a certain ring to it..

SYNCROSPARES UK wrote:drives it off road every day

I expect this is why it's lasted so well, no? Unfortunately most Syncro owners probably do a lot more on-road than off-road driving.