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Hi All. I have just fitted a heavy duty roof rack to my westy poptop, and a Thule basket to that. I then went to raise the roof and found it really difficult. I had to adopt the weightlifter pose with my legs apart and arms straight lifting from the legs, and a reddened strain to my face to get it t...

Hi, I have the van back from lpg conversion and fault persists. It still feels a little gutless on either fuel. It does reach good speed but there is no "grunt". I have just checked the vacuum valve on the back of the carb that opens the second butterfly choke, and found it is sticking. I ...

Oh and itchyfeet, your idea was exactly my first thought. I tested by sucking on the pipe with the throttle open (not running) and it worked fine.

Hi all. Thanks for all the ideas. I dropped it at the garage and it struggled to restart when warm. The timing is well advanced according to the garage. He is going to strobe it before he starts o n it. It does point to my carb clean, new seals, and all new vacuum pipes changed the vacuum and advanc...

Message for the oracles. I recently had moments of power loss on a 1.9 dg then all would be fine again, so I overhauled the carb (pierburg) & this has got rid of that problem. However now she seems down on power and I noticed just now on a long run (20mile) that there is like a pinking when I gi...

/Hi Evo. You found me then. No I cannot do your lifters before we go to shell island. you should have asked at the busters meeting last week.

Hi again I set the lifters last night took it for a spin and it was definitly back up to full power - excellent :-) but a little ticky :-( Took it to work this morning and it still has the power but the lifters seem to have picked up the slack and the ticking noise is gone :-) Thanks for the advice ...

Cheers Kev. That is a very detailed explanation - Ta Much. I am away this weekend but will buy a compression guage and try to set them precisly. Thats great and really encouraging as it sounds like the rough adjustment might be to blame. I will try to set in the evening next week and let you mnow if...

Hi All. This sounds so much like the problem I am having and makes very interesting reading. Last October I had new hydraulic lifters fitted to one side (1.9 dg)that had got VERY noisy and were causing huge loss of power, and have thought since that it was slightly down on power. Garage said theyt d...

Hi. We did a tour of france last year and loved it. We too had a month and went in Aug. 2 adults and 2 kids, we went down through eurodisney, sancerre (flower camping are great sites) down to Carcasson and the pirenees, then back up via rocamador, Il de re (this was excellent and about 30/35 deg wit...

Hi guys thanks for your interest, and yes I rather like the colour now. I had to respray in original Aswan brown as it matches collars and cuffs and is still close to an original van. The lights are from a mkii golf and I still need to align them properly to get max benefit but I hope they are bette...

Hi all, I have not posted on here much before but wanted to share what I've been doing for the last few months of saturdays. Here are some pictures of Betty who is finally finished (well for now). She has had all rust cut out then a full body respray , and full waxoil treatment. I cant wait to get o...