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Started and drove my bus for the first time this year and after 10+ miles and about 5 miles from home my battery warning light came on and stayed on, solid no flickering. Luckily I was at a friends house and I drove the 5 miles home after giving the battery a hour's charge to top it up. No...

In advance of the swap meet at Newbury I will have the following: 4x 15" Empi style wheels with tyres, £200. A vintage speed exhaust £250 A front bumper with side steps, one is a bit bashed £100. Open to offers, and are available in advance if you fancy picking them up from Cheltenham. Hopefully...

Any one going? It's about twice as far as the other DATC for me be looks like a chilled event.

This weekend there is an air-cooled appreciation event. https://caffeineandmachine.com/whats-on/acas-weekend/ I was thinking of going on Sunday probably for lunch so the 10:00 - 14:00 slot - looks like it may rain in the afternoon. Anyone else fancy meeting up?

I really want some old style smoothie wheels, but I'm running late bay drums and discs. At the moment I've got 14" late bay steels on. So I'm after some adapters, I know Limebug do them, but their 112-205 are labelled at "drums only". Anyone any recommendations?

Hey look at this bad boy! Just having a Thursday night beer in the garden with a (completely unnecessary, coz it's boiling) campfire. Like yours Ozzie! Very good for £12!

Just got back from the 400 mile round trip to McDonalds Farm campsite in Porthcothan and back. There was another bay there, a recently restored cross-over, the owner built it from bits 22 years ago. No issues to report, it used a bit of oil. I'm always a bit nervous driving large distances...

I noticed yesterday that when the steering wheel is turned through the slack part, going from L-R or R-L there is a knock sound. I can physically feel it as the wheel is turned so something must be hitting something. I can't remember if I've noticed this before and I drove it 10 miles or so the...

I bought a 3-way on FB, it gets nice and cold on 240v, which the PO had only ever done, but on 12v the back gets warm, but the fridge isn't cold. Any ideas?

Just had a new gearbox fitted and it is a massive improvement. The box is a "freeway flyer" from John Walklate with the taller ratio. Drives extremely well on the motorway. It's cruising at about 70 with about 3800 rpm (I think, the needle on my rev counter has started jumping about for some...

Last weekend at the camp out I noticed a strange noise at low speed coming from the rear o/s. Sounds like a bolt loose in the hubcap. Took hubcap off, nothing wrong. Put hubcap back went for a drive, weird noise at low speed. On my drive I pushed it a few feet and sure enough the same noise. I...

My van is not really starting as well as it used to, one of the thing I haven't checked is the plugs. I went to do it the other day and can't figure out how to get to the front ones that are behind the carbs. Dropping the engine seems like an overkill. So, you twin carb owners, what's the...

Hi folks, I've been wondering why my oil-cooler never comes on and whilst poking about today found that the fuse had blown. It was 5A, doesn't sound like enough. I tested the cooler with a direct connection and it ran fine. So I went out and bought a 12V 30A relay and a 15A inline fuse, so now...

After my recent non starting issues, having not started it for a few months. I went to start it yesterday having not started it for 2 weeks and it was just as bad, took about 3 or 4 bursts of 10-15 seconds of cranking to get it to start. Up to now, it would start almost instantly, even after a...

Hi folks, last ran van a month or so ago, went to start it today to go and get some stuff that won't fit in my car, and there were a few coughs and splutters but almost flattened battery. I've had to crank it a bit in the past after a short layup, but nothing like this. Battery on charge, is it...

I have disks on my 68 bay and late 112 wheels. Do the domed hubcaps that seem to be advertised as only fitting 68-70 bays fit the newer wheels? Cheers Andy Sent from my SM-G9600 using Tapatalk

153.9p!! Should be worth it though as it's got no E in it :) Sent from my SM-G9600 using Tapatalk

I have late bay wheels and want some smooth early wheels. Has anyone used these spacers? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-5x112-to-5x205-PCD-Wheel-Adapters-Wide-5-CAD-Plated-for-T2-Bay-Bus-T25-Pair-/182369491501?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=710-127635-2958-0 And do they...

I'm replacing my crank pulley, whci rubs the tin, with a stock item. Just got this from JK and was wondering which way round it's supposed to go? I didn't expect it to have any kind of offset. Sent from my SM-G9600 using Tapatalk

I thought it would be a good idea (in fact it was Ozzie's idea) that I should carry a spare set of cables. Scratched in the engine lid is "Throttle = 348cm and Clutch = 323cm". I've done some searches on here and looked on Schofields website and the nearest lengths to this are 3462mm - throttle...