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In my experience, most problems with headlights are resolved by checking and cleaning the various contacts in the headlight wiring, in particular the earth crowns under the dash on the left side.

Original campers like the various Westy conversions tended to have non-load-rated rock-&-roll bed installed and so the seatbelts connected back directly to the van body via the various anchor points that VW built into their vans. Where people installed a Westy or similar interior taken from an o...

Hello from Norway! My car is an earlier 81. mod. bus with CU engine. I have worked on and off for more than 10 years to restore and convert this car from tintop to poptop. Last year i got my lisence plate back on my bus. A car my parents bought from my uncle back in 1984. A friend of me now ask for...

Different people take different approaches. Our Westy was based on a van body and so it already had OEM seat belt mounting points below the bench and on the D-pillars, so we installed three point belts back to these locations - take a look at the seat-belt kits that Brickwerks sell. This approach di...

@pirate-pete - you have a PM

You have a PM.  Also, can I suggest you introduce yourself and your van on the forum?

Aside from a faulty dalek cap, as Aidan has mentioned already, the other thing that can lead to transfer of fluid to the overflow tank is pressurisation of the header tank. If this is happening then it's an indicator of a possible head gasket issue allowing combustion gases to get into the coolant, ...

Tensioning for the main auxiliary belt is done with the alternator mounting - it's very similar to the power steering pump mounting in this post in that you need to loosen both the pivot bolt and position setting bolt to adjust the tension.

My understanding is that all the JX LDAs now come from Dieselkontor.de as they own the machine that makes them. Their list price is also the cheapest and they offer different versions for different types of vehicles. However, you’ll probably find that the total cost with import duties works out the ...

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.