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  1. 71Chucky

    Hex Bar Linkage

    Hello Ben, thanks for your reply. This is my engine bay I’m assuming it’s similar to yours 🤞. I hope you can get the gist of the setup from my picture. The garage who installed the engine is an air cooled specialist based in Hampshire. I haven’t lost faith in them yet, but I thought I’d just ask...
  2. 71Chucky

    Hex Bar Linkage

    Hello Karlos, the garage is a VW air cooled specialist and as been around since the 80s,so they know their stuff 🤞. When they swapped the carbs out he told me he’d found some scoring in the carbs, which was causing the problem.with regards the tuning the engine sounds and runs sweetly when cold...
  3. 71Chucky

    Hex Bar Linkage

    Morning Gents, thanks for your responses and I will have a look at the cable adjustment, with regards to the cable would it make a difference to the engine racing when the engine gets hot. I just assumed if it was a cable problem the Hex Bar wouldn’t be snapping closed when cold as well.
  4. 71Chucky

    Hex Bar Linkage

    Hello Peoples, I was just wondering if any of you clever people could help me out with this problem. I had a 1776 engine installed in my van early last year with twin weber 40IDF carbs and a Hex Bar Linkage supplied by CSP. The engine was run-in with no problems whatsoever, until approximately a...
  5. 71Chucky

    Stereo knackered

    Hello Starbiscuit,madman,Ozziedog and anyone else interested in my headache 😩 Just a quick update on my knackered stereo.....all sorted out now it turned out to be a blown fuse in the back of the stereo so a nice simple fix in the end possibly caused I'm told by a power outage when the leisure...
  6. 71Chucky

    Stereo knackered

    Thanks madman Yeah everything else on the leisure battery is working fine although when I plugged my 12volt coolbox in via a socket in the camper it blew the coolbox I checked the fuse in the coolbox that was fine so it seems to have blown something in the motor, fortunately for me it was still...
  7. 71Chucky

    Stereo knackered

    Hello Ozziedog Thanks for the response,being completely useless with car electricals I've decided to book it into my local car radio installer :( but thought you never know someone on here might have an easy fix The stereo is an after market jobbie With regards to a code I can't get that far...
  8. 71Chucky

    Stereo knackered

    Hello Folks I'm looking for a few ideas on a problem I've encountered with my bus I dropped my bus off at a VW specialist 2 weeks ago for a service and pre MOT and a couple of minor problems,stereo was working fine when I dropped it off,last week got a call from the mechanic to ask me if I...
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