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Too-low & too-high voltage outputs of the battery and the generator (i.e. dynamo or alternator) are also important matters. I particularly recall the case of one VWT2OC committee member, whose generator's voltage-regulator failed, resulting in extremely high output voltages, even at idling speed...

In cold weather, it's advisable to depress the clutch-pedal whilst operating the starter-motor. This reduces the load on the starter-motor. Likewise using something like 75W/90 transmission oil in the transaxle, also contributes to reducing the load. Some ballasted coils are rated at circa 6V...

I could relate a few tales of woe from VW Motoring and Transporter Talk magazines, about engines that overheated and went bang, some of which was because people did NOT realise that the engine was overheating for various reasons; some of which included the cooling-fan ingesting paper, cloths or...

If you have the old style oil-strainer plate with six small circumferential holes for the M6 fastening screw-studs and a large central hole with a thread-size of M14 x 1•5 mm (the same as that of the wheel nuts) for a drainage plug. What led you to believe that the dipstick-style...

I will be interested to learn whether it survives to 25,000, 50,000, 75,000 or even 100,000 miles!?!

I don't use high-intensity illumination in my gauges and my family haven't had a Christmas Tree for decades. Those few gauges are just a few of my collection! I also have an inlet-manifold vacuum gauge an ammeter, and a couple of 60 mm diameter, Lucas 8-segment warning-light clusters, as used on...

That is a VERY LARGE tachometer!!! It's my impression that VW Type 1 style air-cooled engines don't like being revved much past 5,000 rpm, unless they are balanced to small tolerances with a counter-weighted crankshaft. I figured that a 52 mm diameter VDO Cockpit style tachometer would have a...

That's only true for the model-years of 1968~79 VW Type 2s that were assembled in Australia, under the Australian Design Rules. Unless things have changed, replacement RHD configuration wiper-arms for these vehicles are difficult to source, even in Australia.

That's the type of pump that was on the AD-Series, twin-port, VW 1600 Type 2 engine, of my family's 1973 model-year (manufactured in late-August or early-September 1972) VW 1600 Type 2 Westfalia Continental.

Here is the relevant page from the factory-issued owners handbook, which specifies maximum laden weights of 600 kg for an unbraked trailer and 800 kg for a braked trailer: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/8_72_bus.php https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/8_72_bus/33.jpg

The factory-fitted window wiper & washer facilities on many vehicles, including the 1968~79 VW Type 2, has been wholly inadequate, so I sought to rectify this as best I could for both my vehicles, of which the other is a 1974 Triumph Toledo 1300 "HL Special".

Wasn't that information given in one of the two owner's-handbooks which normally accompany these vehicles. I still have both of mine for the 1973 VW Type 2, scans of which are posted in The Samba Literature Archive as follows: https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/8_72_bus.php...

This is something I have never done on my family's 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental, which has been in my life since January 1975! To transform it from the bed configuration to bench-seat configuration, simply raise the front leading edge of the front plywood-based upholstered...

The absolute maximum legal towing weights depend upon whether one's trailer has over-run brakes or not, but bear in mind that it is also technically illegal to exceed the towing-vehicle manufacturer's specified maximum towing weights; which is 800 kg for a VW 1600 Type 2 towing a braked trailer...

As previously mentioned, this is a topic which has been discussed on several VW forums. Here's one from The Samba: Forum Index > Bay Window Bus > Electric Windshield Washer Pump Installation FAQ https://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=128956 Here is a more comprehensive topic about...