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This is starting to be sort of a mysterious case...
I understand, that it is essential to identify my tranny type. Trevor, please refer to my
post number 10. There you will find
one important contradiction - sort of lost in the growing size of this thread - which you, as a SVX expert, can refine:
In all kind of sources, it is clearly stated, that
Germany had the ACT-4 transmission, yet as you can see in my post 10, I proving, mainly with photo of the
original 1993 German SVX manual, that my model is a VTD. Page with VTD gear ratios, written in the German language, clearly suggesting that. If we agree that this is true, then there are
only 2 options:
A)My car is a VTD
B)My car originally was a VTD, but now it is an ACT-4, because previous owners, for whatever reasons, swapped it.
Now which one could be true?
If the diagram you sent me, showing the VTD tranny, then probably
option A is correct.
If I listen to my feelings, I would have to choose
option B. I simply cannot identify, with common objection on cumbersomeness and FWD feeling of ACT-4 owners. But I understand this could be relative, as
I didn’t have a RWD car before.
For better orientation, see other pic:
Also check the
aftermarket switch beside the shift lever.
I looked under it and the
wires are cut off. My question is what was the original purpose of this switch? Power Mode MOD or 50:50 AWD toggle mod?
About the localization of the smell. If you mean it literally, then I would say, it is coming from the front, somewhere under the hood. When we were under the car, we didn’t observe it there.
Trevor, if you asking me about language, I am alone in this. I understand you, I don’t have problems with technical words (also a translator can help here
).
I must admit that I have problems in understanding specific phrases (I believe it is called an “idiom”) of your language, like a "stinker of a problem" which I thought was something like a hell of a problem, or a big problem, but not lesson one
So I hope that the above mentioned information will move us forward, but considering how many times I have submitted information, which at best kept us staying on the same page, I would not be surprised if you would take it with a grain of salt
Filip
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