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scottbott Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2010 Posts: 83 Location: essex,uk
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Posted: Tue Sep 30, 2014 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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jeez you have been busy,never realised so much work involved,good to read though |
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lloydy Samba Member
Joined: September 15, 2010 Posts: 715 Location: cheam surrey
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 1:57 am Post subject: |
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Lots of work, but enjoyable. Especially doing the air intake, as the engine bay is getting to be as i want it. _________________ 16" syncro multivan pop top AHU TDI
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lloydy Samba Member
Joined: September 15, 2010 Posts: 715 Location: cheam surrey
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 2:18 am Post subject: |
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i now also have the new dashpod It's a very nice thing, and will be a nice upgrade for my broken pod.
it uses the clocks from a 90's onwards vw, immob is in the clocks, a speed sender screws in via a adapter to the front diff.
all the vehicle wiring fits the pcb on the back
_________________ 16" syncro multivan pop top AHU TDI
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nmerrill Samba Member
Joined: January 07, 2014 Posts: 387 Location: Vermont
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:36 am Post subject: |
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Nice work on that van!
I'm wondering though about your battery box - That's a regular wet cell battery, no?
Did you provide a vent line for it to off gas to the outside? |
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lloydy Samba Member
Joined: September 15, 2010 Posts: 715 Location: cheam surrey
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 6:20 am Post subject: |
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Hi, its a sealed battery so there is no vent. _________________ 16" syncro multivan pop top AHU TDI
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lloydy Samba Member
Joined: September 15, 2010 Posts: 715 Location: cheam surrey
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Posted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 8:15 am Post subject: |
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About 14hrs later the K&N stuff turned up, super quick!
old filter next to new
The pre filter thing
and how it looks all together
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scottbott Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2010 Posts: 83 Location: essex,uk
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 2:09 pm Post subject: |
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that is a big shuttlecock,how big are the rackets! |
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dobryan Samba Member
Joined: March 24, 2006 Posts: 16476 Location: Brookeville, MD
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luVWagn Samba Member
Joined: February 21, 2008 Posts: 1340 Location: Snoqualmie (WA)
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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lloydy wrote: |
i now also have the new dashpod It's a very nice thing, and will be a nice upgrade for my broken pod.
it uses the clocks from a 90's onwards vw, immob is in the clocks, a speed sender screws in via a adapter to the front diff.
all the vehicle wiring fits the pcb on the back
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Please tell us more about this dash panel? Does this just snap-fit into any T3? Only Syncro T3? How about a Suby or TDI T3?
Man, i love this, and might be easier to go that route on my TDI that now has a MPH cluster with a CLOCK I want a tach back!
EDIT: The SyncroSport Site has all the details I'm pondering! _________________ '91 Syncro 16 Reimo Hightop Conversion, eTDI |
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oldhuldy67 Samba Member
Joined: November 25, 2008 Posts: 506 Location: somewhere with a southern exposure
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for posting your restoration...and your adventures. I trundled my young family around Europe 30 years ago (courtesy of the US Army) in a '78 Westy and would do it all again..and again...and again. All the best, John in GA
Finishing a 4 year 1980 Westy here
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/album_search.php?search_author=oldhuldy67 |
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lloydy Samba Member
Joined: September 15, 2010 Posts: 715 Location: cheam surrey
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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Hi, it is all in and working now
from speaking to the seller it will work with all tdi engines (even has can bus connections on the back) subaru ej engines and standard engines.
will fit 2wd and syncro. its nice to have an accurate tacho, a the standard one is pretty vague especially after a tdi conversion. it take the rpm signal straight from the ecu.
real easy to fit, the main 14pin? dash plug pushes straight on as does the handbrake one. you then add on immob ring, vss ect. your light switches ect have to be moved, i used a golf unit that does headlights and fogs
hazard switch will move to the steering cowling _________________ 16" syncro multivan pop top AHU TDI
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lloydy Samba Member
Joined: September 15, 2010 Posts: 715 Location: cheam surrey
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Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2014 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you, I am just glad I can see an end in sight! Then just holidays holidays holidays! _________________ 16" syncro multivan pop top AHU TDI
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Abscate Samba Member
Joined: October 05, 2014 Posts: 22573 Location: NYC/Upstate/ROW
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 2:58 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for sharing all that work. I loved my old 1982 vanagon, but I have to admit the 2002 with gushing heat and AC is nice in the New England climate,
I'm about to launch my three into college so our camping is about to transition from 5 to 2. We found the weekender package is perfect for " hauls 7 " around for the week, and then sleeps 5 for a long weekend. _________________ .ssS! |
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lloydy Samba Member
Joined: September 15, 2010 Posts: 715 Location: cheam surrey
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:32 am Post subject: |
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The 7 seats certainly come in handy sometimes, normally with the wife and a girls night out...
Here's a pic of the speed sender and adapter mounted to the from diff
The air intake pipe i bought arrived as well, thankfully it measured exactly what i estimated and fitted in lovely.
That is the engine kinda how i want it now. The oil separator has been put back in the same location as i can't work out anywhere better to fit it at the moment. And with the dash going in the mechanicals feel like that are as good as they can be.
Unfortunately the van has to go back to the paint shop, as someone threw paint stripper over my van (and the wife's car) so a fair bit of it needs spraying again _________________ 16" syncro multivan pop top AHU TDI
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lloydy Samba Member
Joined: September 15, 2010 Posts: 715 Location: cheam surrey
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 12:59 am Post subject: |
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put a few miles on it now, MFA looks to be pretty accurate
for the one journey
and the average
nice to see my maths backed up by a computer..
finished off fitting the switch for the courtesy light for the sliding door, angle seems odd but there were the factory holes...
Ambient air sender arrived from Titus k
New hazard switch fitted, just need to extend the wires so the loom reaches
And new immob coil and upper and lower cowling fitted, did a much better job of trimming around it all this time
Have had some new keys made, unfortunately as it has the later style chip in the key they can't be cloned like my last set. So i bought some new transponder chips and used vcds to pair them to the immob.
Due to getting a soggy door card, i decided the plastic behind the cab doors needed replacing. Looked at using tape to fix the new stuff, but didn't like it. So decided to use megamat spray on glue, done the job nicely
Hopefully traced a very small loss of coolant to a join on the front to rear coolant pipes (noticed top up tank kept loosing small amounts) slight damp patch on it, so fitted another clip. Hopefully that fixes that!
And also found that i still had the sound insulation in one of the A pillar bottoms, so a bonus there. fitted some to the drivers side as that was missing
Now the insurance company have agreed repairs I've been allowed to cover up the bare metal left by the paint stripper
As you can see its damaged the 16" spats too
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MsTaboo Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2006 Posts: 4065 Location: East Kootenay, British Columbia
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 9:40 am Post subject: |
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lloydy wrote: |
Unfortunately the van has to go back to the paint shop, as someone threw paint stripper over my van (and the wife's car) so a fair bit of it needs spraying again |
Holy crap! That is so evil. I hope whoever did it suffers some instant karma.
Good luck with the repairs. _________________ Currently:
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scottbott Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2010 Posts: 83 Location: essex,uk
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:02 am Post subject: |
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remember when my first wife went off with my 'best mate' thought about doing that to his car but could not do it,really is an arsehole thing to do,hope it is sorted out |
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lloydy Samba Member
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 11:41 am Post subject: |
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It's a bugger for sure, my wife's little fiat got the worst of it. _________________ 16" syncro multivan pop top AHU TDI
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scottbott Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2010 Posts: 83 Location: essex,uk
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Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2014 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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any idea who did it or why?? |
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lloydy Samba Member
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 11:24 am Post subject: |
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No, not at all. _________________ 16" syncro multivan pop top AHU TDI
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