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Thanks for the reply, i'm in S.Ireland.

My front brake caliper has just cracked, will a caliper from any other VW fit? there are no other T25's around here and i need to get one now.

Yes he's right its a watercooled, thanks anyway.

Thanks for the reply, i didn't realise there were different ones but could you send me the pics anyway, it may help.

come on someone must know where they go or if you have a Solex look on your van have a look where they go for me, i'm a desperate man

I have been having some real headache carb problems so i have put my old Solex back on but can't remember where the vac pipes go! as you look at the carb there is a vac pipe outlet on the left and 3 at the front,it also has the dizzie with the 2 vac outlets, could anyone tell me where they go, so i ...

I have no idea what that means but thanks for the reply.

I did put a wanted ad in which is where i got the Pierburg from in the first place which has turned out to be shagged. I've just put the Solex back on(see previous posts) and its seems to be running ok, so i seem to have successfully bought 2 knackered carbs.

problem being i live in Ireland so it costs me £25 to get one sent over each time so i'm not taking any more chances in the hope that its a good carb and i can't afford to have this one rebuilt, so "Balls" to the van it can stay where it is.

No i've still got it but the vac units gone, the gaskets are all shagged and someones tried to repair with gasket goo and god knows what else is wrong with it so thats why i thought i'd go for the Weber but it looks like i screwed up again, so now i've got 2 carbs that are no use to me and i'm £150 ...

The choke worked fine but the vacuum unit didn't so it only worked on the primary venturi, i did buy it second hand and it looked like someone had been at it before so i decided to bin it, i assumed the Weber was a much more simple set up.

OK i've been having running problems which i put down to the carb so i have changed it for a Weber. I fitted the Weber today and it still won't run right. It will tickover for a short while but then then revs go all over the place and it will cut out, it smells rich and the plugs are sooty. I've cha...

Screw it, i've just bought a weber.

I've stripped and cleaned the carb out again, checked the float, jets etc and its still running the same. I just can't understand it, its running way too rich, it starts up fine,the choke shuts off nicely but its chucking too much fuel in and all the plugs are black and sooty WHY WHY WHY.

I did strip the bloody thing before i fitted it and everything seemed fine. i'm running it with a mushroom filter as well because i only had the airbox off the Solex which is different so am i ok just blocking off the other vacuum pipe that goes to the airbox? I wasn't expecting it to run 100% strai...