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Found a small leak on the back of the Weber carb, my fault as I fitted it , hopefully that is it sorted now

Yes , I think you are correct re switch position, also as far as I know the fridge in battery mode is fed from the engine and not the leisure, the logic is engine battery while driving and either gas or mains when stopped

Interesting thanks , do you know what pressure the blue cap is set to ?

I have been ill for a few days but had a chance to look again, I topped of the header tank, took it for a drive, got it warm, couldn’t see any leaks for there is a faint coolant smell in the engine bay. Interesting that the expansion tank fluid was cold, I had expected that the header tank would hav...

Thanks for the comment, oil looks good , not burning any, no smoke, driving really well.
I do fill to the brim, cannot see any leaks, I will look at the exspansion tank when the van is hot to see if it has expanded into the header

Hi
Been using the van for two 100 mile trips a week, each week it loses 700 ml of coolant from the header tank, the exspansion tank level is good, new blue cap and no over heating, no obvious drips, about 3ml per minute of driving
Any suggestions?
1987 1.9 dg

I got my Weber from euro carb, £500 plus vat, very happy with it.
 https://www.dellorto.co.uk/shop/vw-carb ... r-kit-wbx/

I used the SHC kit, straight forward and works well, only one note of caution, the power feed to the analogue clock was polarity reversed and blow the diode, simple fix, but annoying.

I used the slaughter house custom pcb kit to replace my dash system, apart from a clock problem it was straight forward 1987 1.9 petrol