Germany and back
Posted: 17 Jul 2007, 23:22
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.
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.