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Later South African build T3s have a hole in the middle of the x-pressing panel at the bottom of the vent duct. They recognised it as a problem and fixed it.

You can buy a lot of speedo cables for the price of a GPS widget. Why try to reinvent the wheel? Is there an installation fault? The cables should have a P clip to secure them to the front underframe iirc I just couldn't stop my speedo clicking loudly and the needle jumping all the time. I drove me...

You can buy a lot of speedo cables for the price of a GPS widget. Why try to reinvent the wheel?
Is there an installation fault? The cables should have a P clip to secure them to the front underframe iirc

Thanks for the samba link, the layered foam approach with appropriate cutouts looks good. But is is fire retardent? Although if you have an engine fire anyway its almost irrelevant!

Anyone done this sucessfully? Specifically on a later type GRP cover that is irreplaceable because its got the Oettinger wbx6 identity sticker on it! I am aware that the original contoured foam is reinforced with chicken wire - I stripped one off years ago - but its now going to dust. I understand t...

The rad is the high point but you bleed the air out and fill from the tank. The wiring harness that connects the header tank contact probe is part of the original VW engine harness, so it has probably been removed as part of the conversion. Should connect via one of the two 7-pin white round connect...

Get a Haynes manual and full the system as though it had a VW engine. You have to raise the rpms to get the coolant circulating and fill the system via the blue "dalek" cap, not via the radiator bleed screw (its designed to be accessible through the grille slats with a suitable open spanne...

The heavier gauge red is the inlet manifold heater, helps cold weather starting by reducing fuel condensation.
The Haynes Book of Lies covers this in the current flow diagrams.

PS it sounds like your welding activities may well be a contributing factor. Electronics really don't like that stuff going on close by. Was the battery still connected? Does your choice of sound system still work? (I had a nice one killed by a welder)

https://brickwerks.co.uk/tech/t3-techni ... clip-test/

I didn't know this until very recently, in my case the Hall trigger had died suddenly along with some other faults occurring simultaneously.

"water cooled 2000cc"

Whats one of those then? Engine code will tell all. Has it got a carburettor or is it efi?

As described, OEM on left

I have compared some "fair/used" condition original screws against two different pattern ones. OEM Show a distinct blue heat treatment zone on both ends. This preserves the toughness of the working threads, makes sense. One of the patterns is hardened on the valve end, but not the other. T...

Don't forget the heater bypass H-pipe mod that all EJ's need because the Subaru heater is a full-flow blended air system unliike the VW which throttles the hot water flow to regulate air temperature. Without this mod, when you close the heater valve the coolant can recirculate in a stagnant loop cau...

SOHC vs DOHC...some have siamesed exhaust ports, might be a later detail thing though. Otherwise, like for like swap but...you'll need the matching ecu and harness (reworked of course) because manual and auto are not the same iirc, but can be fooled to work and behave, its to do with telling the ecu...