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silly question, a friend has a 68 camper sitting in his back yard, no motor or trans (long story, short his son sold them for drugs!) but other than that it is complete and has spent it's life in the SoCal desert, so no body rot just typical sun rot on the seat and such,,,he wonders what it...

some type of servo shut off (fuel line) vavle that I can wire to the coil so the fuel line is closed to the motor when I turn off the motor? I'm sure this has been dicussed to the 10th degree, I tried a search but was not able to find the correct thread.

On a road trip this past weekend I spotted a 1970/red/sunroof bus, I have not got the photos over on my PC yet, but if anyone here wants to call on it, here is the guys number 1-661-809-0517. He is in Olancha Ca. which is northern calif. Looked like a little rot but nothing real bad, much less...

I was just reading a thread on Samba about adding a vent to ad air flow to the engin compartment, thus adding cooling air. As you might guess opinions varied a great deal, I live in the desert, summer time is on average over 100 degrees so I'm thinking over the idea, have any of you done this...

recently I started hearing a clanking or grinding noise when I first start the van, once it's above low RPM the noise goes away. Almost sounds like the starter is sticking or to me it sounded and felt like the motor was moving around but I have not found any movement from under the bus by just...

I was given advice about timing my 71 and followed it to the T, funny thing is after ajusting the dist to the point the bus ran cool and normal, I checked it with a strobe light,,,,it came out at 5d after top dead center, JUST what the book says for a 71 Calif model...... :oops:

the bus is a 71 Calif model, it used to have all the smog crap, but that has been removed, it does have the orignal machanical advance distributor. The motor has no numbers on it that I can find, so I have been guessing on the timeing, looking at the books and asking questions. Opinions vary a...

Sorry if I asked this before but just started looking at it like the next thing to fix. On my 71 do you have to remove the steering wheel to replace the turn signal on the steering column? I have read two books one says yes and one says no, not sure and how hard is it to do? Anything I should be...

I went and did this,,,,

vwheaters.com and if so, how hard was it to install?

been doing a little looking around on what it takes to do, I was planning on using the stock oil pump, is this an issue on a stock 1600 bus? Planning on using these parts http://vwparts.aircooled.net/Full-Flow-Oil-Return-Adapter-1971-Dual-Relief-p/3059.htm"...

just for entertainment..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA-YoeKeGn0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05mu9AT3fvQ&feature=relmfu" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Before I got involved with VW Bus's I never noticed VW's much......now.....I see the dang things everyplace ! I have seen more restored bus's on the road in the last year than I thought exsited :D On my road trip this past weekend I ran into at least 4 on the road, I'm going to start taking...

got my pc to upload, here is my 71 I'm working on the inside from the back with all my junk sticker in the back window and a bus I found in a boarded up house, no one seems to know who the owner really is

reading many of the posts here I'm wondering what size motors many of you are running? I read some are running stock 1600's to over 2000cc's, what do you folks find the best?

I have had a few cars over the years with turbos, some good, some not so good. For giggles I was looking at a company here in Socal that builds turbo kits....anyone here ever had or used one,,good bad ? oh yes, thinking of using it on the 1600 bus, when and if I ever get it sorted...

been working on the timing for some time, 71 bus with a 1600 no numbers that can be found and a centig dist (009?) not sure. #1 should be right/front plug on the distribitor, in my case as I got the bus, it is right rear. I have tried 7.5 btdc and 10 btdc and even atdc, the bus runs, but quckly...

I have a leak someplace, have not found it yet, replaced valve cover gaskets and I do have 2 bad studs on the oil plate on the bottom of the motor. Went for a 10 to 15 mile drive as a test this weekend and it seems to really get worse as the motor heats up, it dumped maybe half a quart in that...

this guy travels all over with his race bikes, has a rack on the front and bike, carries two bikes all the time camper van with a 1700 motor

This place exsited, this is only aboy 3 hours from where I live, the parts and stuff will blow you away http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf02J5oIRoA&feature=related" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;