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  1. downsouth

    New Forest Campsite recommendations

    I can vouch for ocknell. went there for girlfriend birthday end of July, absolutly stunning. You will need rock pegs though for an awning. Its an old air base, and you cant hammer pegs into the ground. Get a forest holidays memership and its only £3 pound cheaper a night. No showers but does...
  2. downsouth

    heater

    see now I dont think I am. When I open the front flaps we get air coming in, but when closed nothing. I just wondered how the heat is supposed to get from the engine to the fornt windscreen? I reas that they are not all that good anyway, but not knowing whats right or wrong, I am not sure.
  3. downsouth

    heater

    hello. My bus seems to be taking ages as well. It just looks tired, and its going to cost me a fortune to finish off. My girlfriend said they were money vampires, but i didn't realise quite how bad. Anyway, my question is, I seem to be missing the little lever on the heater duct that comes up...
  4. downsouth

    European sausage tour 2009

    looks fantastic. Glad you had a ball. What news on the salami front though? I am partial to a porkinson banger myself, but the king of the sauages in my opinion comes from a little butchers called howards in Haslingden, Lancashire where my mummy lives. Ther pork and apple flavour ones are quite...
  5. downsouth

    Recommended Restoration Firms In Kent????

    I second that, Matt did a stirling job on our bus. Lovely neat welding and sailed through mot. They are down at St Nicholas at Wade near Canterbury. Tell him steve and d bigged him up.
  6. downsouth

    I'm back !!

    Welcome back to your domain. I will be looking out for an early bay trotting along the A26 pretty soon. Gene Genie will flash her lights, and say hi. Steve in Maidstone
  7. downsouth

    BIT OF ADVICE RE RE EVALUATION BY INSURANCE

    thanks chaps, I thought it might need and independant evaluation. I mean it does look a bit of a heap still, and you wouldn't know it was anything special. They don't seem to understand that its an early bay, gene berg 1776 engine and was not even road worthy or taxed when i bought her, so how...
  8. downsouth

    BIT OF ADVICE RE RE EVALUATION BY INSURANCE

    Hello, We bought our bus for £5400 in April. No mot, no uk registration. We have had about 2k worth of work done on it (welding engine tuning etc), it now has a uk mot, reg and has a gene berg 1776 engine. I sent off details to Hert Insurance for a re-evaluation specifying all the work we had...
  9. downsouth

    Westy Hookup 125V plugs !!!Update 21th April!!!!

    if anyone gets hold of some more of these, can they pm me. I really fancy keeping the original septic tank unit as its a lot neater than wires everywhere. My dad understands elastic trickery, so we should be able to sort something. Please let me know and I will pay for the plug.
  10. downsouth

    headlining diagrams for gene genie 71 west lhd

    Hello, I wondered if anyone had what I think is called headlining panel diagrams or drawings for a 71 westy. Where i work can trumpf big aluminium sheets, and my girlfriend and I want the ceiling done in brushed ally finish, which I think will look fab. a) is is called headlining (crappy faded...
  11. downsouth

    Westfalia water tank

    my '71 has a wing nut on the thin pipe. Spin it round and the tank drains. Need to clean my tank before i use it though. Manual says baking soda, buy i thought a water purifying tablet would serve just as well. As my hand pump tap is missing (any one know where i can get one btw), I took the...
  12. downsouth

    intermitant cutting out at idle

    I just got a 1970 gene berg westy. she is not ticking over at all well and is backfiring something shocking when throttling down from 4th to 3rd. She has been standing for a few months, and i haven't got a clue about timing etc so I was wondering if anyone had any ideas. Could only get at two of...
  13. downsouth

    our new westy the gene genine 1971

    No further providence other than the last owners cetificate of tital in California. We know where she lived in the US (google maps is the nuts) She came over last year to Cool Air in Erith, who sat on her for a bit, and then we bought her from them last month. Just applied to wolfsberg for her...
  14. downsouth

    our new westy the gene genine 1971

    I would like to introduce our new gene genie all the way from californ i a to sunny kent. Had one or two holes in her, but Rusty Kampers sorted them out and shes just got her mot and new J plate 1970 reg, so she's ready to rock. Gene Berg goodies. First post so be kind.
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