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You probably need to clarify your question. As far as I am aware, it was only the very early 1.6L air-cooled petrol vans (pre 1982?) that didn't have brake servos from the factory. The 1.6TD JX diesel engine was only available on water-cooled vans from 1984, and always with servo brakes.

Is the smell slightly sulphurous, i.e. bad egg smell? If so, then I’d suggest checking your leisure battery as it might be knackered and venting when it’s being charged by the alternator, or when you’re on a hook-up.

The red lever is a shutoff valve after the regulator, and the rotary switch connects the external bbq point into the system. By selecting the right combination of settings you can feed the internal equipment only from the tank, feed the internal equipment and an external ‘bbq’ from the tank, or con...

The red lever is a shutoff valve after the regulator, and the rotary switch connects the external bbq point into the system. By selecting the right combination of settings you can feed the internal equipment only from the tank, feed the internal equipment and an external ‘bbq’ from the tank, or conn...

If you don't have one already, it would be worth downloading a copy of the Westfalia camper manual from the westfaliat3.info website here.

As above the filling point is at the far right end - it has a screw cap cover that you can see resting at the bottom in the picture. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20260915/209692025f9993af23b7715f1e3d65ad.jpg You need a bayonet adaptor like this one. https://gasit.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12...

It's also worth, when dealing with sudden issues with the dash electrics, taking a few minutes to clean up the earth crown connections behind the fuse panel just to rule out a bad earth connection being the root cause.

If the centre joint is set incorrectly then the linkage could be the wrong length to fully engage the gears. If you follow the guidance in Bentley it should set it correctly for you.

One trick frequently used by people to reduce the height of vehicles so that they can be shipped by container is to fit a set of cheap steel rims and use them without tyres as wheels to load the vehicle. You could maybe try something similar. E D I T: here’s one thread on Expedition Portal about thi...

Also, check you haven’t accidentally disconnected the stop solenoid on the injection pump.

The JK manual can be found here:

https://www.justkampers.com/kamper-man ... -1992.html

I wouldn’t have thought so - you might be able to use the old timing to shortcut a rough alignment but consensus seems to be that the cam sprocket should be loosened and alignment checked for it to be properly dialled in. There’s more info in this the first page of this samba thread: https://www.the...

Once you’ve got the gear selector and gearbox ‘ends’ cleaned up and working freely then everything comes down to getting that connector/ joint in the middle of the van set up correctly.

If you haven’t done it already, get yourself a copy of the Bentley manual - you can find it on the vwt25 website.

Section 34 contains all the info you’ll need to correctly set up your gear shifter.

Silly question perhaps, but presumably you have the housing ‘box’ that sits around the bottom of the gearstick which contains all the gear shift guides … ?