Club 80-90 Forums

Just joined to help me keep my daughter's 79 camper on the road. I think the forums brilliant.
My first question is this.The van has had a replacement water cooled engine at sometime in its life.Would it have had an air cooled unit originally. The current engine is playing up and I am not sure which way to move forward.......Sam

Pics?

hi and welcome
yes if built in 1979 it would have been air cooled, will have steel rear air intake vents and big gutters and a host of early bodywork features; plus the conversion to watercooled

Thanks for help so far, will try and post some pics tomorrow

How do I post a pic?

notmineitscarlas wrote:How do I post a pic?

It took you all night before you failed at posting pics? Most of us stumbled within minutes!!

The forum doesn't have server space to host pictures so you need to sign up to a service like photobucket, upload your pictures there and then link to them in your posts.

There's a write up in the wiki on how to do this:
https://club8090.co.uk/wiki/Mi ... g_pictures

Thanks to all for helping the luddite.The van has plastic air intakes. I am going to check chassis number because I'm getting worried.Has anyone seen a V plate with water cooling?

notmineitscarlas wrote:Thanks to all for helping the luddite.The van has plastic air intakes. I am going to check chassis number because I'm getting worried.Has anyone seen a V plate with water cooling?

You're safe amongst other fellow Luddites on here

notmineitscarlas wrote:Thanks to all for helping the luddite.The van has plastic air intakes. I am going to check chassis number because I'm getting worried.Has anyone seen a V plate with water cooling?

Is it diesel or petrol?

Its currently petrol

notmineitscarlas wrote:Thanks to all for helping the luddite.The van has plastic air intakes. I am going to check chassis number because I'm getting worried.Has anyone seen a V plate with water cooling?

Or with plastic grills?

Try checking this table.....http://vwt3.com/t3-tech/t3-data/t3-manufacture-dates/

And the invaluable guide to which early or late parts your VW should have using the VIN Number

https://www.brickwerks.co.uk/t3selector