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I can finally add my bus into the equation! It’s a 1969 Westy originally built by Ted (and Leanne) from Slamwerks, I’m good friends with Ted so when the bus came up for sale last year my wife and I snapped it up. It was originally running American Eagle 5 spoke wheels but I wanted to change it...

😁 Fortunately/unfortunately I don’t drink much alcohol!

That’s incorrect, on a stock, original mechanical pump the fuel pressure is pre-set by the spring inside the pump itself. This specific spring gives a pressure reading of around 2.5-3 PSI regardless of RPM. What does change with RPM is fuel volume, the push rod stroke determines the volume and...

I looked and couldn’t find anything for this either. One option you could do is have the rims powdercoated all black then paint the front in the correct L581 paint from Wolfsburg West, which Schofields sell. That would be factory correct too. I painted mine myself using the WW can of L581...

Myself and two others have now ordered in some powder from the states that is a very very close match to the original colour. A guy in the states used a good condition, original paint hubcap to test against and found this colour. It appears to be only available in the states so we decided to...

Did you match it on an original? It's been hard to tell in pictures what the correct colour grey is! Some look lighter grey like yours does but then others are darker. Cheers Steve

Bit of a random/long shot this one, I’m looking to paint a set of hubcaps in the correct L70X silver grey colour but the code is not recognised anymore to get some paint mixed up. Does anyone have either a set for sale or have an original one they would be willing to get a paint reading from...

Hello all, I've been reading the forum for a short while and realised I hadn't posted on here! My wife and I bought a '69 Westy in June last year, we are longtime VW owners but it had been at least 12 years since we had last owned a bus (a '65 split) and the time was right to find another one...