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Unless your vehicle was manufactured before 1st January 1971, the maximum height for a brake light is 1,500 mm, except where the vehicle's structure makes this impractical, in which case a maximum height of 2,100 mm is permissible. Given that one could retro-fit a high-level brake-light just...

I have a nasty suspicion, that using a central brake-light flanked, closely by rear direction indicator lights, such as might be appropriate for a motorcycle, would be illegal if used on a four-wheeled motor vehicle such as a 1968~79 VW Type 2, owing to the minimum-separation requirements of 500...

You might want to read up on the appropriate regulations before you start messing about with the position & configuration of external lights!?! The Road Vehicles Lighting Regulations 1989 https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1796/contents/made Direction Indicators – legal requirements...

Variable-speed & intermittent windscreen-wipers are useful, but one of the most useful safety & ergonomics related upgrades, is to use the 1973~74 VW Type 2, steering-column mounted, combination windcreen wiper & washer stalk-switch, with the single-pass flick-wipe facility! Having the...

You might want to read a few automotive tuning & modification books, before you start radically changing inlet and/or exhaust valve sizes...

There are several styles of VDO gauge, of which one is called "Cockpit". My catalogue also includes "Mobil Cockpit", "Profi Cockpit", "Modular Cockpit" and others. These are the four pages illustrating "Cockpit" gauges, of which I have a few. There are other more modern styles of VDO...

Alternatively, you could have a rain-sensing, variable-interval, intermittent windscreen-wiper controller https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/lit/raintracker_rt50.php Refer to the following article for more details: Nigel A. Skeet, "Rain Tracker™ RT-50, Universal, Rain-Sensing...

It was my impression that crankshafts & connecting-rods were forged rather than cast, owing to the high cyclic stresses they had to endure!?!

This is my take on fitting a VW Type 4 engine's oil-temperature sender: The right-hand sump plate (fits beneath the VW Type 4 engine's oil filler tube & dipstick tube), is fitted with a VDO stubby-length, oil-temperature, gauge-sender (VDO part No. 323 801 012 002) having an M14 x 1·5 mm...

Here are the official VDO Cockpit installation instructions for oil-pressure gauges, oil-temperature gauge, cylinder-head temperature gauge & alternator-sensing tachometer. https://www.thesamba.com/vw/archives/manuals/vdo_oil_pressure_gauge_cockpit.php...

That gauge looks like an oil-temperature gauge calibrated in archaic Fahrenheit units favoured by Americans! Back in the mid-1990s, I used to pick up 50~150 deg.C VDO oil-temperature gauges from the local car breakers' yards for about £2~£3, salvaged from water-cooled VWs & Audis.

If you have a SUITABLY-LARGE budget and really want to go to town, you might also wish to consider using a Porsche 911 cooling-fan conversion or DTM cooling system and/or alternative cylinder-barrels with either cast-iron barrels & stacked aluminium fins or nicasil-coated all-aluminium cylinder...

My preference is for tea with milk, but no sugar. Alternatively, I am quite partial to various fruit juices, such as orange, grapefruit, lemon, lime, pineapple, mango, grape or guava. People don't need to be "drunk" in order to be a greater danger when driving. Just a half-pint of beer or cider...

1968~79 VW Type 2s are well-known for "dead starter-motor syndrome", about which there have been several articles in Transporter Talk over the years. Having a hand-cranked starting-handle is a good option, which was a factory-fitted option for some military-specification vehicles. My father had...

That must have been an ultra-large capacity battery and/or you were not driving with dipped headlamps, as required by Swedish motoring law since before 1982, if one does not have dedicated daytime running lights. During the summer of 1982, I experienced the failure of the 38A dynamo's voltage...

After I substituted the Microdynamics Formula 1 FCD electronic ignition & Macrospark ballasted ignition coil, plus Lemark "Hotwires" 7 mm HT ignition leads with close-fitting rubber boots over the spark-plug ceramic insulators, I got on the button starting in all weathers, even after circa...

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...