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Hello all, Just wondering if anyone has any experience of using the later 8mm head studs on an SP engine. I've seen upgrade kits to fit TP heads to SP case, but those seem to be heads only, which I guess means the 10mm and 8mm studs are interchangeable between heads. I read about the problem...

Just wondering if there's any interest in this. It's off a June 1970 bus, stock single-port Solex manifold with no vacuum take-off. Until I replaced it recently, I was running with a blanking plate in each of the heat riser flanges because the pre-heat pipe is rusted through in the sections...

My bus used to use a lot of oil. It would get from dipstick max to min in a hundred miles, which is a staggeringly bad 50 miles per pint I think. It used to be obvious; you could see it running down the case from under the fan shroud and there was an oily film over the back of the bus. It...

My bus speedo has been erratic since I got it. The needle flicked at low speed and sometimes stopped altogether for a few minutes. It was live-able until a couple of weeks ago it stopped working and didn't recover, so after a quick search on EB, I checked that the cable end was still poking...

Hi all, Looking for some servo advice for drums all round. I know similar questions have been asked here before, but not exactly this one, as far as I could see. The other half has declared my bus brakes dangerous on account of the effort needed to emergency stop. I'm OK with the 1970 drums...

IDK if anyone else has this problem, but our bus smells a bit fumey in the cabin after a run. I put it down to a minor oil leak somewhere. Like a faint acrid oily smell. After the oil leak became a gush from under the fan housing (whole sump emptied in 80 miles) I took it to Jamie at Station...

Hi all, Just wondering what is the biggest size (capacity and dimensions) that anyone has managed to fit in the engine bay left-hand battery tray. I had a quick measure up for a 110Ah Numax one, but it looks a bit tight between the wheel arch, the spare wheel well and the rear light cluster...

This question is probably stupid (again). It's about the rubber trim above the sliding door that reduces the size of the bump on your head when you forget to stoop getting in and out of the bus. The old trim was filthy and ruined when I got the bus (1970 devon) so I pulled it off without...

Replacement part from VWH after the original had rusted in two. It's not been on the bus long. I had to squeeze it up with mole grips after it popped off the glass within a day or two of fitting originally. I painted it and re-fitted it, the plastic door liner, the door card, the door...

Hi all, Hopefully someone can help with another daft question from yours truly. I wired my cigarette socket on the dash to the "accessory" position contact on the ignition barrel (via a 20A fuse) I'm using "quotes" because maybe that isn't what it is. Certainly, with key in and turned to...

Hi all, I finally figured out why my sliding door won't pull-in by lifting the outer handle. Firstly, the locking plate on the B post was too high, so the hooked latch wasn't dropping far enough to allow the locking bolt to stick out along the top of it. Secondly, I noticed that the little...

http://www.vwantigo.net/shop/ You can set the language to English and currency to Euro. They take Paypal and the prices for some of the stuff I was looking at are *really* good. Obviously shipping from Brazil won't be cheap or quick, and there's import VAT and potentially import duty to pay...

Hello all, Just wondering if anyone has a working Devon interior and can help with how the rear vents work. Among the junk that came with my bus from the PO was what I think is the original 3/4 width front panel off the rear bench seat. It has two heater outlet slots on it: On the back of...

Hello all, Sorry to keep posting questions. My bus starts great when it's cold. Good cranking speed, fires quickly. But if I try to stop and restart once it's warmed up, the cranking speed is much much slower. Sometimes it fires, sometimes not. When it's in this "slow cranking" state, if I...

I have given up for now on the 30 pict 3 that was on my 1970 bus. The local "bus whisperer" said it was un-tunable, that it needs a clean and rebuild to unblock the passages and stop the spindle air leaks. So I bought a Brosol H30/31 from GSF as a stop-gap on a 35% off weekend. I have read...

Hello all, Thinking about converting to front discs, but wanting to stay stock wide 5 (currently stock ride height), and have some questions. Does anyone know the difference between the position of the wheel-mounting face of the pre-86 944 hub on a 1970 bus spindle versus the wheel-mounting...

It's taken me 3 years to get here, and the bus was off the road for at least six years before I bought it. And 2001 VanFest was possibly the last time it actually went anywhere interesting unaided. But now it passed :D I just have to sort the drag link and the crudded carburettor and I can...

Hi all, I still have a vacuum-only distributor, original fitment, and I believe it's working fine. Max 30 degrees of vacuum advance (when I can get the engine running). My 31 Pict-3, on the other hand, is knackered. It has sloppy throttle-plate bearings and some blockage in the body drillings...

Hello all, After a large list of issues left me by the PO, I have just got the engine and gearbox back into the bus. It's taken ages because I get so little time on it and only in short bursts. I checked oil pressure and fuel delivery, connected ignition to coil and after a few seconds...

Just wondering if anyone has any tips for separating the two pieces of the linkage that run through the chassis rails? The inner end, near the master cylinder (1970RHD bus) is OK, but the outer end that connects to the forward-going link rod has worn its hole to an oval. Lots of slop. It...