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<blockquote data-quote="aogrady" data-source="post: 445198" data-attributes="member: 3512"><p>Hi,</p><p></p><p>Welcome along!</p><p></p><p>Steering is heavy at parking speeds, though if new ball joints, lowered etc, it could maybe make it heavy, tyre pressures etc. Maybe you need to ride in another one to compare? The lowering may cause the ball joints to run at the end of the travel, that wont help, maybe some noise from this area too?</p><p></p><p>Fuel smell. Needs sorting right away, look at the thread as mentioned, and replace all the rubber lines and filter, they could be years old and about to fail. Fit the fuel filter under the gearbox, not in the engine bay. May just be this, but the vent hose on the tank and filler can split too, engine out to fix - or even if someone has drilled and screwed into the wall under the seat bed, the tank isnt that far away! </p><p></p><p>Interior, look in the for sale, post a wanted add, your best bet for that.</p><p></p><p>Hazards, as mentioned, standard on USA buses, not on UK earlys.</p><p></p><p>As for people to work on them, I live in Barnstaple, here are some for you, and have a look at my thread, I have used recently Bob @ Restohaus, Barnstaple, and Karl @ Beetlebank in Westwood Ho! Other people are Ian at South West VW's in South Moulton, or further down in Cornwall is Evil Bens, or Scott Wilson, are a few of the top of my head.</p><p></p><p>You are more than welcome to come over to Barnstaple for a mooch around my van, or come over to the Big Sunday VW show in Croyde, Bank Hol Sunday</p><p></p><p>https://www.facebook.com/BIG.SUNDAY.1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;</p><p></p><p>Cheers,</p><p></p><p>Alistair</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aogrady, post: 445198, member: 3512"] Hi, Welcome along! Steering is heavy at parking speeds, though if new ball joints, lowered etc, it could maybe make it heavy, tyre pressures etc. Maybe you need to ride in another one to compare? The lowering may cause the ball joints to run at the end of the travel, that wont help, maybe some noise from this area too? Fuel smell. Needs sorting right away, look at the thread as mentioned, and replace all the rubber lines and filter, they could be years old and about to fail. Fit the fuel filter under the gearbox, not in the engine bay. May just be this, but the vent hose on the tank and filler can split too, engine out to fix - or even if someone has drilled and screwed into the wall under the seat bed, the tank isnt that far away! Interior, look in the for sale, post a wanted add, your best bet for that. Hazards, as mentioned, standard on USA buses, not on UK earlys. As for people to work on them, I live in Barnstaple, here are some for you, and have a look at my thread, I have used recently Bob @ Restohaus, Barnstaple, and Karl @ Beetlebank in Westwood Ho! Other people are Ian at South West VW's in South Moulton, or further down in Cornwall is Evil Bens, or Scott Wilson, are a few of the top of my head. You are more than welcome to come over to Barnstaple for a mooch around my van, or come over to the Big Sunday VW show in Croyde, Bank Hol Sunday https://www.facebook.com/BIG.SUNDAY.1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Cheers, Alistair [/QUOTE]
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