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On the question of lifting the pop top into place, the lady of the house manages fine when she takes our boy and dog away. She is 5' 3" and under 9 stone so hardly a giant. Mind, she is as hard as nails.

New spark plugs, fuel filter and a bit of carb tinkering and she is running nicely again.

New spark plugs, new fuel filter and adjustment of the carb has cured the problem.

I will arrange for a new fuel tank in the next week or 2.

Pete.

Booked in for tomorrow at local garage. I have asked them to look at the filter. The garage used to deal with Dubs for many years and one of the fitters still works there. Will speak with him. She is a fantastic panel van. Some seam rust and I bashed the side panel too. She looks a bit rough but it ...

She was over half full when this happened. You could feel a clear change in the acceleration when the "problem" stopped, e.g. after a roundabout going up the gears. We could need a new tank as there was a leak when we filled up earlier in the day. As far as I know, it is the original tank....

The 1.9DG petrol van developed a bit of a problem for the last 60 miles of a 2 day 400 mile trip. It felt like the van was driving into occasional gusts of wind. She was happy to start and tick over, she went up several long steep hills and kept going at 45 to 55mph - I didn't try any more but I thi...

I have a 1981 Devon conversion and its 112 cm x 117 (not around the corner of the bed base....) just measured it for a rug, myself. Tho can't find one to fit 'off the shelf'.

My petrol 1.9DG (4 gears) does about 26mpg on long motorway trips at steady 55 - 60mph.

[/quote]Bit of a long story but each time it went wrong had to take the engine out take most of the ancieries of put it on a pallet and send it back. This happened a few times P.S Each time it went back it got a bit of a knock from being in transhite. Nik[/quote] Hi Nik, That's what we fear and have...

helga592 wrote:

bokobillycamper wrote:

We had an engine from this company some problems with the first engine, But it all got sorted in the end.

What was involved in the sorting out? Did you send the whole thing with your parts back to them?

Sounds like they sent more than one engine to you....

Thanks,

Pete.

Our recon engine sounded like a bag of spanners from the first start up. How anyone could dispatch something like that I don't know.

Then wants it back with all our stuff attached so it can be listened to and diagnosed.

No thanks.

Pete.

thebobster wrote:I have heard good reports about THIS COMPANY and their work. They may not be the cheapest but they aren't the dearest either. They are very up-front about who they are and what they do.

That's who we had a duff engine from.

Pete.

We are having difficulty with the recon (CT 1600) we bought some months ago. The engine has a fault but as it came from across the country, getting it sorted is proving difficult. So if poss, I would use someone close enough to send someone out if there is a snag. Apart from trying to get a refund o...

My panel van has some seam rust, although it doesn't appear to be at an advanced stage. It is in most of the lower panels. I bought the van 14 months ago. The then owner had done a fairly crude paint job and had wire-brushed the seams. He showed me before/after photos so I have no suspicions that th...

We are coming to the conclusion that condensation is causing similar problems in our pop-top. In spite of being under a cover, everything is soaked around the roof vent and there are various accumulations of water elsewhere. As of today, we are leaving it with the cover off and the kitchen vents ope...