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It’s a very sad thing to see a crashed bay, I’d possibly go as far to say that we see more incidents relating to engine bay fires than crashes. At least it looks to be fairly minor and repairable damage - hopefully it doesn’t impact on your holiday too much. Regarding the insurance side of...

Cheers, Si, yes that is a big help. Not as many washers as I was expecting - I figured that there’d be something to stop the linkages from flapping around, but they seem to have been designed to be mega floppy, presumably to reduce any chance of the thermostat from not being able to operate...

As stock, the suspension arms should rest not parallel to each other, I.e. the closer you get to the ball joint end, the further apart the distance between the arms. Once the spindle is installed, this pulls the arms parallel and preloads the leaf springs such that when on a bumpy surface, there...

Do you have dropped spindles? These could be returned to stock ones and then the beam lowered to suit. It depends how low you are aiming for though, as you would not want to be running stock spindles on a fairly low bus as you’ll have issues with ball joints hitting the end of their range of...

Hi all, hope most of you have had an enjoyable 4 days off! Whilst most of my time has been taken on repairing the daily, I’ve turned to doing a quick refurb on my cooling flaps whilst the rest of the tin is away for powder coating. I’ve stripped them down, and the ‘exploded’ parts are in the...

I’ve just bought one of these kits for our bus, and I can confirm that there are clips on both ends 🤪

The flickering will likely be where the pickup has started to draw in some air instead of just oil. So it would still be providing some degree of lubrication whilst flickering, and I’d have thought that as long as it didn’t come fully on, you might have gotten away with it. As you say there was...

Just a thought, I wouldn’t expect carb gaskets to be soaked in petrol - it might be that you’re trying to solve a gasket problem, but actually the issue is that your carb is leaking fuel when the engine is switched off. The intake should only see atomised fuel, and the gaskets shouldn’t be...

I’m after an original sled tin (the shorter, thermostat side). I’ve had one blasted but underneath the crud it is looking a bit worse for wear.

That is very odd. If they don’t cause a problem, why remove them in the first place. Hey ho, hope you get it sorted as I presume the ball joint are fairly readily available.

What’s their justification for removing them? Seems an odd thing to do if it makes no difference to the operation of the linkage.

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Is the seat adjuster for sale, and if so, how much posted please?

I bought some cheapo Beetle frames to nick the catches from, and they look identical to me!

We’re running a 155/60 R15, and that is on a 4.5” width wheel.

Just the angle of the photo, there’s probably another couple of turns of thread exposed. It is indeed the tapered style.

Well this one has reared it’s head again, lots of oil spray after not many miles last summer. Here is what was found as I separated the parts: Please feel free to say otherwise, but no amount of sealant was going to stop that seal deformation, and I think that the softer red seals have...

I’m thinking a plan B is probably the best for the time being. Which takes me back to my original question, does anyone know how these ones are fitted - do they bottom out in a recess and then the deformation effectively seals them, or are they just tapped in the hole until a suitable depth is...

Bumping this up again as the engine is back out, and there is a lovely pool of fresh oil sat in the plug. I’m confident that this is coming from the plug itself! Is this possible to drill and tap in situ using something inside the bore as a temporary way to catch the swarf, or is this only...

Does it have any stamping on it to suggest what the ’AWG’ number is? Alternatively, you should be able to get a reasonably good estimate of the wire gauge if you can get a set of verniers across the core. I appreciate this wasn’t your original question, but I’d want the peace of mind that the...