Encounters with a VW Transporter
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Picked this up about a month ago from a VW bus being parted out on The Samba. It is mechanically sound and will wind up and tick down, but it’s a bit stiff. I need to open it up and clean it. Continue reading ‘Gas heater timer for the Eberspacher BN4′
Well, we are commited enough at this point that there is no point in me keeping it on the down-low any more. On Monday, I fly out to Portland to pick up Vandejo, a 1974 VW Deluxe Westy. It’s an automatic with an engine from a ‘78. It is fairly well known around a couple of the vw forums, so you may have ran across it in the recent past. With our fourth little one on the way, we knew that camping in Buster just wasn’t going to work anymore. We needed a pop-top westy so we could sleep some of the kids up top. Initially we just wanted a straight body to start with. Then we could use the engine and interior from Buster (Buster is due to be stripped down for a restoration.) Well, asking for a straight body was apparently too much to ask. Either the sellers described the bus as “in perfect condition,” even though there was potatoe sized holes in the floor, or they wanted so much for just the shell, that we could buy a running bus to start with. Continue reading ‘Our quest to reach Vandejo’
Looks like we are getting around 15mpg in town. Not bad. I mean, that is the number they advertised from the beginning. The ride and engine are very quiet. I wonder if tossing a less restrictive muffler would help with the mileage without making it much loader.
