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Not the same engineers though, about 60 years apart !.

The original bellows type fail open, but i think you'll find the mexican type fail shut.

Vac tube usually comes from carb.. Did you have to replace the thermo switch thingy ,the one in the top of the oil bath. (opens at 30°) I upgraded to the same set up as you, vast improvement 👍

VW engineers didn't design & fit the thermostat system for fun. They are to allow the engine to warm up as quickly as possible and then to control the engine and oil temperatures. Don't forget, most engine wear takes place when the engine is cold. Would you take out and discard the thermostat...

Hiya, wow, when you say 'new' project, have you restored others?. When was it last 'on the road'?.

Hi, i think I'm going to Keith's field. Have a blast at the Corfe Castle bash👍 Liquid grease, I'm just happy my steering box has lubricant in it now, and a bung in the filler hole, a few days before DATC i discovered it had neither ! 😡. The 'specialist' who the van was with when i first bought...

Many moons ago i was sold GL5 g/box (by a Triumph 'specialist') oil for my Triumph Vitesse Mk2 . I suffered for years with a stoggy, stiff, orrible gear change till someone enlightened me GL5 was unsuitable. Put bog standard GL4 in and within a few hundred yards it felt like a new gearbox. So...

Also, modern oils can be too 'slippy' for the syncro rings in a lot of 'classic' gearboxes. This makes gear changes feel like you've filled the box with bostik, ask me how i know 🙄

You could wire the fuel hose clip next the carb to something near and solid.

Good to meet you too, and all that were there 👍☔

Thanks, i will 👍

🤔 Hmm, i'd get your spare box recon'd if it were me. Anyways, the elusive red bung turned up whilst the van was up the road being MOT'd 👍 Odd thing this morning,as i pulled away i had a 2 second power cut, as if you'd took a battery lead off momentarily, hasn't done it since. Anywayz, see you...

Great trip, glad it went well😎 Amsterdam, that sounds brilliant!. I should get out further afield , I've never driven abroad.

Old thread i know!, but how's the gearbox now Oz ?.

Hiya, welcome to the Jungle😎

I've read a few things lately about steering box woe's, this got me thinking 🤔 i got the feeling lately my steering felt slightly 'tighter'. When i first bought the van 4 years ago i had a few urgent jobs done by a 'specialist', one was to adjust the steering box, i was informed they had filled...

Just a one day thing not far from me. A few of the Flat4 VW Bromsgrove group are going and stopping over. It's on fb. 👍

VWOOM BOOM Wondered if anyone is going?. Sat 8th. Camping avaliable. Thornbrough Farm Redhill Road Birmingham B38,9EH

I'd fit led stop tails and indicators, vast improvement and they use less juice and so take the load off your brake pressure switches too. Headlights, again leds are vastly superior imo. To ensure good quality stuff go to Classic Car LED's, very good for advice etc if you need it.

I removed one of those passenger seat cookers from my van, I've still got if anyone wants it , rattled on the move and i don't want to cook inside. The gas bottle was under the small seat behind the drivers seat with a vent hole in the floor, like a plug hole, gas is heavier than air.