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I've just spent 7 hours under the van replacing the spigot bearing. I was at a very good friends garage who without his help I would have been well and truly stuffed. Gearbox out(never that easy and the 2 of the drive shaft bolts are always a pain ), Clutch off(had to replace the bolts), Flywheel of...

Yes the needle is to the left side of the gauge it tuches the left side LED and just creeps up to the middle on a realy long up hill climb.

I've recently changed the thermostat for a 80 deg one from a (vw golf vr6). I've done 200 miles over the past week up and down the A30 to work and back and all seems to be working well. I run the van on lpg. Just a note to anybody coming down to the west contry this summer there is a new service sta...

Cheers I knew that the thermostat opened at 87 but wanted to know what the normal running temp was?

I've had a quick look and can't seem to find the normal running temp for a 1.9 Dg. Does anybody know?
Cheers.

Thanks will have a go today

I'm in the proccess of changing the rad but the old air flow ducts are a bit sad. I'm sure i found a post where someone made the parts with stuff from screwfix but I can't find the post. Does anybody remember the post ?
Cheers Nik

I'm not saying this is the best rev counter I'm not saying it's the only rev counter. But this is the rev counter we have on are van and it works just fine!

Thanks for the info

Just found the thread (Fix your analogue clock) Sorry don't know how to do a link to the page. I just put fix your analogue clock in the serch bar

There is a thread on the site some wear? about repairing clocks. If your any good with a soldering iron have a go! I did and i'm a bit of a bodger and the clock now works lovely.

Does anybody know if T4 Caravelle wheels (with square holes) fit on a t25 or do I need to adapet them in some way?
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So is there a set of 16" wheels that can go on the van without spacers or centers made bigger?

Just been out to the van in between the rain showers and the tyers on the van are Michelin 185R 14C am I wrong in assuming that they are the write one

It says its an ABD box on the casing. But on the motorway we were doing a constant 65mph and the rev counter said 4000rpm, If I went up to 4300rpm the speedo and the satnat said we were doing 70mph. Standard 14" wheels with 195 60R tyers