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The strap-bridges on the left are of the type for the roof rack and the rubber toggle straps are the correct ones for the front-hinged Westfalia elevating roof as on my 1973 model-year; which would be used in conjunction with the offset strap bridge on the rear edge steel-roof aperture.

You might find it useful to read Richard Atwell's VW Type 2 technical pages about engine lubricating oils and their specifications: https://www.ratwell.com/technical/OilSelection.html The principal reason for the 3,000 miles or 5,000 kilometres oil-change intervals, was the lack of any proper...

If the bolt-thread is long enough, one might be able to use two nuts tightened against each other.

I wasn't aware that any model-year of 1971~79 VW Type 2 with 112 mm PCD wheels, had wheels with a circular central hole!?! When I checked just a few years ago, 185 R14C commercial-van tyres were still readily available in Great Britain, but I anticipate that availability will decline and/or...

I don't know whether the roof-bed pillow-section supports of my 1973 model-year Westfalia Continental (manufactured during late-August or early-September 1972), might have originally have had plastic or rubber bungs on the ends, but there certainly weren't any when my father bought the vehicle...

Only 15/20 years old! My set of five Michelin XZX, 185 SR14 Reinforced radial-ply tyres (load-index circa 95½) date from circa 1977/78, so are at least 45 years old. I was still driving on these perfect-condition tyres in mid-1992. The second-spare Michelin XZX, 185 R14 S Reinforced radial-ply...

Have you yet measured & calculated the centre-bore diameter, PCD - pitch circle diameter & wheel-offset of your current unusable spare wheel? https://www.wheel-size.com/articles/centre-bore/ https://wheelssize.com/wheel-offset/calculator/ https://www.westerntowing.co.uk/pcd-calculation/...

That just about sums it up! I too have a second 5½ x 14 inch spare steel-wheel, derived from a 1980~92 VW Transporter T3 model, which is identical to my original five 1973 VW Type 2's 5½ x 14 inch steel-wheels The South African built, 1992~2003 VW Transporter T3 models [There were no...

The Westfalia factory-standard, hinged pillow-section is much narrower than that! Make sure that it can actually be hinged upward into the service position, once one has climbed-up into bed in the elevating roof!?! Without the gaps at the sides, unless one hinged down the pillow-section, it...

It was one of my contributions to VW Motoring magazine a few decades ago, which was published as a "Reader's Top Tip", earning me a £10 prize. I had long thought it illogical to have two direction-indicator tell-tale lights, which did NOT flash separately, according to whether one had activated...

Sometime after 1979, the Mexican VW factory produced a "bay-window" T2c VW Type 2 with a 1•8 litre 4-cylinder, in-line, water-cooled diesel engine and front-mounted radiator

You assume correctly! Please keep in mind that not everyone is acquainted with the various different national and international conventions. Part of my professional remit as a teacher and technical writer / editor, has always been to question potential sources of confusion or ambiguity, so...

Malta had a unique British Empire coin - the one-third farthing (not to be confused with the half farthing or one-quarter farthing), of which one would need 3 x 4 x 240 (i.e. 2,880) to equal one pound Sterling. I have at least one specimen in my collection of coins, of the British Commonwealth...

I once drove a Bedford CF diesel-engined pickup during my 1976 university summer-vacation job at the Mobil Oil Company's Research & Technical Service Laboratory, where I worked in the Bitumen Section. The rest of my section came home drunk after lunch at the local pub where they had some topless...

Do you mean 6 mm, 10 mm & 16 mm OR 6 mm², 10 mm² & 16 mm², because they are NOT the same!?!

If that 42,000 refers to US$42,000, then I would agree that it is more than a bit pricey! However, if the asking price is in Mexican Pesos, then that would certainly be more reasonable. https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/convert/?Amount=1&From=USD&To=MXN

I presume this is one of the early 1968~79 VW Type 2 single-cab pickups, which preceded the introduction of the so-called "chicken-tax"!

Would I be right in thinking that Nuevo León in Spanish translates as New Lion in English, which seems a strange name to give a state, province or county, unless it's named after local wildlife such as a cougar or mountain lion? The rear licence plate appears to be in much better condition than...

Have you considered the alternative of substituting a laminated, electrically-heated front windscreen, which are readily available in the UK for the 1968~79 VW Type 2? These should provide much more effective demisting & defrosting than using hot-air through the factory-standard dashboard vents...

I cannot help wondering whether the driver & front passenger are of rather SHORT stature or the van roof is being raised to compensate for the reduced headroom!?! I also wonder whether one would be able to turn the steering to full lock without the tyres fouling on the bodywork!?! The...