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I have found that relocating the air box mounting rearwards by about an inch (2.5cm) has allowed it all to fit, using all DJ trunking etc. I guess the DH / GW trunking and plenum will be up for sale soon.... Also had to shorten the hose to the breather tower by an inch, and cut a fair chunk of the h...

I see your vsn is an 'early' type, so early door runner. From memory, these runners are no longer commercially available... At least for the last four or five years. The late runners can be obtained, but will not fit your van and door. Try sending a pm to Plasticman on here. I am sure Mick can point...

That is the same as the two that I have. One in the car... And a spare at work. I have a 2005 Vectra and Vauxcom diagnostic software. The ELM dongle shown was able to display an injector No1 fault that the Vauxhall specific software did not detect. https://i.postimg.cc/8zmdRPWp/Screenshot-20250424-2...

If it is the 'usual' 16 pin eobd / eobd connector, then you can get cheap and cheerful bluetooth versions of the old fashioned ELM interfaces. Ten a penny on ebay and other auction sites. As for software - assuming you are only doing diagnostics and reading sensors, You can use something like "...

Yep - to confirm..

Red is battery live - permanent 12 volts.

Brown is chassis ground or battery negative post.

Grey / Blue is the dash illumination.


Use
Red for USB +
Brown for USB -

If you have metal vents, then you do not need plastic vents.

I presume you have an air-cooled van, or very early diesel...
By the time water-boxers were introduced in very late 1982, the vents were updated to plastic parts.

Sensor wires to gauges etc. Connector T7a Pin 1 = blue / black - 0.3 bar oil pressure switch. Pin 2 = yellow / red - gauge temperature sender. Pin 3 = blue / green - coolant shortage sender Pin 4 = brown - ground wire Pin 5 = green - tacho / rev counter signal Pin 6 = red / black starter signal wire...

Agreed - the VWs all share the same wire colours and context.

One of the barrel connectors is for the rear lights.

The other is for the ignition, ground and instrument sensors.

I am sure there are many posts on these two connectors.

I do note one two-pin connector has a missing / snapped wire.

The correct wire for the Dynamic Oil Pressure is indeed the yellow from the sensor behind the water pump pulley. However both sensors are connected to the buzzer of doom pcb behind the speedometer head. Pin-out is as follows - DOP pin 1 = blue wire from alternator D+ terminal DOP pin 2 = yellow from...

I have a 1983 van (not a Westy). One of the first wasserboxers. I can confirm that my early van does NOT have a warning light on the dash for the handbrake nor fluid level. There is no facility to mount the switch on my early handbrake lever. I had to fit a later brake lever to my van so that I coul...

Hi Davidoft1,

pm sent.

Best wishes,
Rob.

I had best order a bearing kit and split pin from BW next week.

I think it is the shaft that has partially stripped. There were fine strands of steel within the threads of the shaft. And as daft as it sounds, I thought that I felt a perceptively minimal reduction in diameter for the 1/2" or so of thread adjacent to the hub face. It just baffles me the pound...

Hi All, I am still plodding at a snails pace with refurbing the old boogie-bus. Anyway the general gist is that I have just replaced all the brakes on the rear left hub. Thinking that I had 'boxed off' that wheel, I thought throw it all back together. Throw the hub nut back on, tighten is with a 3ft...

Ooh I am very interested for a GW / DH air box... Don't suppose he has the cross engine pipe too. No worries if not. I have plans to fabricate my own :) if all else fails. I will send him an email. Thanks for the heads-up Aidan. :ok UPDATE - Email sent to contact@dream-drive.nl FURTHER UPDATES - Mar...

Thanks for the heads up on the cross bar. I will look closer at that. The van has continuously thrown up complications, so a few more seem to be par for the course. I got the impression with my trunk / boot that it was already in it's highest position, and rotating it brought everything back an inch...