What's this part?

I'm just putting this out there out of curiosity. I found a large block
bolted to the underside of my 89 golf just behind the engine. It doesn't
appear to have any purpose that I can see it measures about 5x2x2.
Does anyone have any idea what this is?

-Andrew

"DruG" <drudadATdccnet. M O C> wrote in message
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> I'm just putting this out there out of curiosity. I found a large block
> bolted to the underside of my 89 golf just behind the engine. It doesn't
> appear to have any purpose that I can see it measures about 5x2x2.
> Does anyone have any idea what this is?
>
> -Andrew

vibration damper/tuner

okay, so why is it there? What is the purpose of it's vibration damping/
tuning?
I don't think it was bolted to the engine, if I recall it was bolted to te
unibody, but I could be wrong.

-Andrew

"Alec" > wrote in message
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> "DruG" <drudadATdccnet. M O C> wrote in message
> ...
>> I'm just putting this out there out of curiosity. I found a large block
>> bolted to the underside of my 89 golf just behind the engine. It doesn't
>> appear to have any purpose that I can see it measures about 5x2x2.
>> Does anyone have any idea what this is?
>>
>> -Andrew
>
> vibration damper/tuner
>
>

DruG wrote:
> okay, so why is it there? What is the purpose of it's vibration damping/
> tuning?
> I don't think it was bolted to the engine, if I recall it was bolted to te
> unibody, but I could be wrong.
>
> -Andrew

Does it make a ticking sound? if yes, get the hell away from that car ;-)
No seriously, I don't know what part it is. Where exactly is it mounted?
Can you by any chance make a picture of it and put it on some webserver?

Remco

"Remco Meeder" > wrote in message
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> DruG wrote:
>> okay, so why is it there? What is the purpose of it's vibration damping/
>> tuning?
>> I don't think it was bolted to the engine, if I recall it was bolted to
>> te unibody, but I could be wrong.
>>
>> -Andrew
>
> Does it make a ticking sound? if yes, get the hell away from that car ;-)
> No seriously, I don't know what part it is. Where exactly is it mounted?
> Can you by any chance make a picture of it and put it on some webserver?
>
> Remco

it's a vibration damper. my '91 has it too. I never ran the car w/o it but
it just unbolts from the subframe. shouldn't hurt to remove it but VW
somehow thought it was needed for a quieter/smoother ride or something.