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Morning all. Quite a few years ago I looked into the poor quality of the standard versions of this bush, and drew up a replacement in CAD. A forum member had some machined up in teflon and I've had one fitted to my bus since early 2019. It far improved the shifting. Here's a thread I set up...

That's the one yeah. It is thicker than the standard, but fits in a the standard upper and lower pulley well. It's 12.7mm wide by the way, that advert is wrong. The specs for the belts are an industry standard. I guess depending on how accurate the alternator stands are machined and tolerances...

I went throught the process of trial and error using off the shelf SPA belts a few years ago, when I noticed the same problem you guys are. The current optibelts and similar a available from the usual suppliers appear to be too long, not sure if it's a quality control issue or what. Tested a...

Whilst building my first engine from the ground up from my bay, I've been building a spreadsheet of all of the usual suspects (VWH, M7, Cool Air, GSF/VeeWee etc.) prices for the parts I needed; so I could pick the cheapest places for each part and save a little bit of cash. In the process I had...

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Clearing out my garage of numerous aircooled VW bits See facebook photo album https://www.facebook.com/Ryan.lepecha/media_set?set=a.774954172626686&type=3 Prefer collection for heavy items, but will post at cost. £1 per item for seal/gaskets, fuel pump rods, dizzy drive £3 4xSpark Plugs...

Hi Stefan, The reason I set the Aldon amethyst to 7.5 degrees static is because the distributor rotors will typically allow for 40-45 degrees advance before the tip moves too far from the rotor pins. If you have 10 degrees of vacuum and 30-31 degrees of mechanical you get very close to this...

Evening, A couple of years ago I pulled a lot of information off the web on the advance curves of original bosch distrubutors, and new ones; along with ignition maps developed by numerous people on The Samba for the megajolt/megasquirt/CB Black box. Additionally using some calculations & data...

Sounds good. I'm currently working on a ambulance fan type equivalent set up for the front vents, using 12v 4" inline blower fans that are readily available and a PWM speed controller. I'll share that once it's done. Sent from my One Pro using Tapatalk

Excellent, it's good to hear that other people are identifying these issues with the parts available on the market, and trying to come up with alternatives! I fitted this one dry, and all seems ok at the moment. The one I am using doesn't have any clips holding it in place, but is a...

A few years ago a member of the forum kindly had a few sample teflon front shift rod bushes made up. Only in this last week have I had chance to try one, I am very surprised by the improvement this has made to the shifting on my bus even through I have not long since replaced all the bushes on...

Unfortunately again this year I'm unable to make it to this. It's a shame if the turn out has dropped off, gone from 50+ bays or whatever it was a few years ago to only a handful? Sent from my Swift 2 using Tapatalk

It's a relatively simple procedure if you have a decent stable trolley jack. You need to: mark the hub to the spring plate using paint or similar: undo the 4-off bolts holding the spring plate to the hub Put the saddle of the jack under the end of the spring plate Lift the spring plate off the...

Awning rail screwed to the roof racks. I've got a single rack front and back, but I would think a similar thing would work with any rack with supports far enough along the van. Sent from my Swift 2 using Tapatalk

Old clutch cable with frayed end, ? I know peole used to use those to clean out heater cable pipes of old grease etc. It might act a bit like a wire brush on the inside of the box sections too, which should prep them perfectly for cavity wax or similar.. Sent from my Swift 2 using Tapatalk

I had my 3rib upgraded to a freeway flyer by Bears Motorsport, but likely to be similar price to Cogbox. There's a guy called Stephen Brear in Leeds, apparently he's a magician with Gearboxes. Worth giving him a ring! Most of the local garages who have cars come in with gearbox problems send...

Well, I've got the VS fitted with the titanium shaft & rotational stop tabs, which I presume is the new one you refer to, had it in over a year now and no problems. I've seen a couple of the berg ones fitted, and there not for me. The VS IMHO is better engineered for the most part, only the...

Design/Tendering Engineer for a company that manufactures all the kit required to get oil & gas out of the ground.. Surface & subsea. Apprentice trained at the same company, and now completing a BEng in Mechanical Engineering with them. Keeping the old buses running and using plenty of petrol...

My understanding is that 5deg ATDC was used when the dizzys had a vacuum system which pulled it back to BTDC at idle. This was to meet some Californian emissions requirements at the time. Most dizzys on buses in the UK now should be timed to 7.5 degrees BTDC, or 30-32 degrees at maximum...

25HP sounds ridiculously low given that most rolling roads over read, which would indicate it's even less than 25hp. Get a Buttys bits throttle kit fitted, it should help no end. Your rear tyre size will define your 70mph cruise RPM. Stock tyres on my bus have approx 4100rpm at 70mph(GPS)...