Germany and back

[edmundator]

I'm back from my quick blast to Germany and back in the Syncro. Left on the 08:20 chunnel on Sunday and returned on the 13:20 on Monday. Syncro ran well all the way, other than spitting out quite a lot of oil (the rear has an almost complete coating and there are always a few small patches on the ground after I've parked up - keeping an eye on the oil level and topping up as necessary).

I'm also finding 1st gear a bit troublesome to engage - sometimes takes a couple of goes to slot it in. Is this a common problem? I presume Syncros suffer from the same linkage problems that make gear selection difficult on normal T3s.

Getting the Westfalia interior was quite an adventure. Just after I said to my mate "Let's hope he's not going to lead us into the woods and murder us", we turned off the road and started going up a track into the forests. After a little further than the 10-15km he'd suggested, we arrived at an electronically controlled, barbed wire encrusted gate. Feeling slightly nervous, we followed him in and went along a road that led up to a massive concrete bunker, with a couple of nearly-as-massive blokes and a dog waiting outside. Fortunately they were just making use of the Americans' left-over munitions bunker as a garage, offered us a beer and had the complete Westfalia interior ready to go. Splendid.

I'm now engaged in a rapid conversion which I hope to have finished by Friday evening. Everything is stripped out and cleaned-up, ready for installation to start first thing tomorrow.

[peasant]

As for selecting first when stationary ...I find it easer to first put it into second and then just move the lever straigth up into first. That way you don't end up in 3rd or R as easily.

It does go in fairly easily, it's more a problem of "finding it first time" on my yoke

[Hacksawbob]

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