Couple of newbie questions ? wrong exhaust ?

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Couple of newbie questions ? wrong exhaust ?

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Hi I've recently bought a 1985 left hand drive Westfalia which has been messed around with a bit in the engine compartment :?

From what people on here and a mechanic have said its a bit of a botch up of older and newer bits :? Its a 2.1 watercooled with an LPG conversion and only has about 20 odd thousand miles on it since a new short engine was put in.

It runs and drives superbly but I'm slowly wishing I'd waited and bought a more standard camper as its looking more and more like I'm going to have problems buying parts for it :oops: or at the very least identify what bits are from what year :?

Its in for a service today and I've already had the first phonecall to say he can't get the hose I wanted him to change as its discontinued :( but at least he has identified what hose it is, so my first question is, if he has found a part number is there anywhere that supplies discontinued hoses ?

The other thing that has come up is the exhaust, he says that its the wrong year a 1986 instead of 1985 exhaust so there's nowhere to bolt the back box to :? so he's saying its only a matter of time before it falls off :shock:

Whats difference between the two exhausts ? I must admit I havn't really had a look to see whats involved :roll: but I'm a welder by trade so could I fabricate some sort of bracket or is it more complicated than that ? and if I can what do I bolt it to ?

Thanks in advance,
Steve

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There an early & late(86 on) exaust--the late exaust box sits in 2 cradles with straps over the top---as for your hose this firm(I'm told) http://www.nfauto.co.uk/gates.htm makes hoses to measure--
Billy...Defected to white box but still lurking.

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