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Some of my best and most useful upgrades to my family's 1973 VW "1600" Type 2 Westfalia Continental, were the earliest ones: 1976 - Fabricated & fitted a home-made stretchy butyl-rubber roof-rack cover, with eyelets & hooks on three sides, and turn-button fasteners adjacent to the...

Regulations vary from country to country, regarding emergency spares & equipment, but generally speaking one is required or recommended to carry: ONE or TWO hazard warning triangles. Enough high-visibility waistcoats / jackets for the driver & ALL passengers, which MUST be accessible from...

I think science & technology organisation in the USA are gradually making the transition to metric measurement, but it might take a few hundred years to complete the process. Working out U-values for walls can be a challenge when using BTU/hour, with thickness measured in inches and areas in...

Gauges draw very little power, of which a few are almost essential for the 1968~79 VW Type 2s; especially those with the VW 13/1600 Type 1 Beetle style air-cooled engine, whose cooling system relies upon the integrity & non-slippage of the V-belt and non-seizure of the dynamo or alternator shaft...

The EMPI five-spoke and other after-market wheels that are commonly marketed for 1968~79 VW type 2s, generally tend to have a grossly unsuitable wheel-offset of 20 mm or less, which commonly leads to there being insufficient clearance between the tyres (especially tyres of the most suitable size...

The photograph of your van's front panel, shows no signs of large holes above the front bumper for water hoses to the missing bumper over-riders & headlamp washers. A few years ago, I managed to obtain most of the Swedish specification, 1975/75~79 VW Type 2 windscreen washer & headlamp washer...

If you are planning to build your own interior furniture, it might be worth investigating the following Internet links pertaining to light-weight materials: https://voehringer.com/en/ https://voehringer.com/en/our-basics#plattenbeschichtung https://voehringer.com/en/our-basics#Moebelteile...

Judging from the lack of front bumper over-riders with associated headlamp washers, I surmise this might NOT be a vehicle of Swedish specification (although you do seem to have the 8 litre water tank instead of the right-hand kick-board in the cab & circa 1 litre, air-pressurised, white...

I would certainly associate that relay terminal-configuration with a headlamp dip & flasher relay. The five-terminal configuration of the British & European specification, headlamp dip & flasher relay for the VW-Audi (VW part No. 411 941 883B), labelled 30, 56, 56a, 56b and S; terminal 30...

I too would be extremely fussy about having properly functioning direction-indicators, which should ideally have separate tell-tale rights for right-hand & left-hand indicators, which I now have after modifying the electrical circuit. Side-repeater indicators are also a useful safety feature...

I vaguely recall that the modern version of the VDO Cockpit lookalike (Vision or Cockpit International ranges I think!?!) 0~6000 rpm tachometer, might have the option of being configured for either ignition-pulse sensing or alternator sensing...

That looks rather like a VW 15/1600 Type 3 clock next to the speedometer! It also seems that have upgraded to the 1973~74 steering-column mounted windscreen wiper & washer stalk-switch! Are you using the original dashboard-mounted windscreen wiper & washer rotary-switch for a rear-window wiper...

This is a job-lot of three, circa 1980s vintage, NOS - new-old-stock, 52 mm diameter, VDO Cockpit 0~6000 rpm alternator-sensed engine-tachometers. First Marked: 230/105/3 | 12V | 993 1660 Hz | massefrei | 10.86 | justierbar | NO2 10.86 Second Marked: 230/105/3 | 12V | 993 1660 Hz | massefrei |...

From that picture posted on the website, it's not clear how & where the brackets are mounted (especially near the top shoulder mount), and how robust it would be in a collision!?!

One can also reduce engine revs at a given true road speed, by substituting larger diameter wheels & tyres. Some 16 inch wheels with 215/65 R16C tyres, will give about 5% reduction in engine revs and 215/70 R16C tyres would give considerably more. Both will give greater ground clearance for...