Westfalia Electric HookUp

[Seamus1982]

Hi guys and gals,

I have a 69 westy bay US import, I want to change the hook up to a uk spec, I bought one for near on £100 from just kampers without taking much notice in it. When I got it home, frankly it looked terrible, all plastic and a bit tacky. Needless to say there isn't a hope in hell it's going on the side of the van. I did think I might be able to pull it apart and use the 3pin connection and replace the one within the metal hatch in the van, but it doesn't look like it's going to work.

So, to get to the point, does anyone know where I might get a uk spec original metal westy hook up for the side of the van which I could then use the fusebox etc I bought from JK.

Any help much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[lard]

Hi,

I had a look a while ago but none came up - I like many others use a US plug for the external hookup and renew the wiring from the inside to the RCD,

HTH

 

[Seamus1982]

Cheers for the lard, can you just explain further? Do you mean the existing external plug will work with a uk hook up and all I need o do is rewire the internals?

Cheers

 

[lard]

Cheers for the lard, can you just explain further? Do you mean the existing external plug will work with a uk hook up and all I need o do is rewire the internals?

Cheers

You will need to make up a lead using the US female plug to go into the outside of your hookup - the yellow one here:

You can then either take a normal hookup lead and replace the UK end female end with the US one, or as I did make a short conversion piece and plug it into a female/female lead (the conversion lead is the US female and a UK male on it)

I then removed the back off the westie US elec unit (mine was mounted through the side panel) and used fresh wire to go from the terminals inside the unit to an RCD and put a new panel over the internals of the unit,

Hope this makes sense! Can't post piccies of the internal unit as it's all now hidden - hope the above makes sense?

EDIT:

Found some pictures from my build thread

This is the standard unit I have:

This is a (rather crap!) picture of what remains when you remove the cover, I had to cut 1/2 inch of the metal frame from around the internal part to stop it pushing against the panel but was fine with a hacksaw - then attached the new wire and ran this to the corner and popped it out inside the buddy seat for the RCD & 12V charger:

Nicely tucked away:

If you are leaving the panel and internal plate in place then you may need to drill a hole in the side of the internal metal case and run a wire through here and then under the bench seat/buddy for your RCD - would keep it all looking stock

 

[creationblue]

If you require the yellow plug then I have a couple left at £12.00ea, PM me for details/info

Just

 

[Seamus1982]

hey guys,

sorry for late reply, thanks for your help, makes sense now! Just - how do you want paying for the adapter (if you still have one?) and could you get it to me for Friday?

Cheers
Sean