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From the Samba Vanagon forum here:

Normally a P/S pump belt should be fairly tight. Correct tension on any V-belt is when you deflect the belt 1/2" with firm finger pressure at the midpoint of the longest freespan.

I can't say whether that's absolutely correct, but it sounds about right.

Two bolts - see diagram below from Bentley - a pivot bolt at the bottom of the PAS pump bracket and a position setting bolt at the top.

The PAS pump is on a pivoting bracket which is swivelled and locked in place to tension the belt. Unfortunately, neither the JX manual nor the Bentley manual have any information on how to achieve the correct tension.

You have a PM.

My understanding is that diesel actually has a relatively short shelf life - typically quoted as 6 - 12 months under normal conditions. The big issues are water contamination, which can also lead to diesel bug in the fuel, and degradation of the biodiesel fractions. Given that it's such a small quan...

I don’t know anywhere in East London to recommend - we normally take ours over to Jack’s Garage in Ladbroke Grove, but as Aidan said they’re usually booked up well in advance.

I'm not sure I fully understand what you're intending but my suggestion for software would be to get yourself a copy of Fusion 360. It's industry standard software but Autodesk offer a free license for personal and hobbyist uses and this includes all of the standard functionality including model con...

You have a PM...

jrt wrote:

The top image looks similar to the photos on the auction referred to by multisi.

klabbeklas wrote: ↑18 Jul 2025, 12:10 Would you mind sharing the manual with me also?

dcworm57 wrote: ↑19 Jul 2025, 18:22 Hi Clift_d
Please can you send me the manual aswell.
thanks v much 
Dave 

You both have a PM...

The VW owner’s manual suggests tyres with a load rating of 97 or 99 for a rear wheel drive van. If you don’t have an owner’s manual then you can get a PDF of one from the westfaliat3 website here

My understanding is that were some specific roof modifications made to these vans to fit the Westy high-top, which would probably need altering to work with the pop-top you've bought, and so my instinct would be to go with a straight swap of the whole roof rather than picking the existing apart. Be ...

The burst pipes suggests pressurisation of the coolant system, i.e. head gasket failure, but if that was the case then you'd also expect to see gas in the coolant header tank displacing most of the coolant into the reserve tank behind the number plate, and the OP hasn't reported this kind of coolant...

There are a lot of "never-posted-before" people popping up on this thread requesting links to information.

Perhaps if you could introduce yourself and your van before asking for things?

You might have done this already, but in cleaning all of the connectors, earth crown, etc don't forget those at the headlamp unit. Speaking from experience.