TheSamba.com :: View topic - Need to get rid of sink unit, dont want to ruin aesthetic

Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:44 pm

I've been wanting to pull the sink unit out of the weekender for a while now, but havent come up with any way to do it without the new storage unit segwaying to other stuff, like the headliner and exterior, so I was thinking about trying to duplicate the materials in there now ( black 60's formica top with some sort of darker wood grain veneer on the cabinets) just in a different style. I'd like to keep the sinks aesthetic (is it anything more), but it seems stupid to have a un-functional sink there.

I've never used the thing so im not quite sure how its supposed to work. Is that drum below the cabinet supposed to be pressurized some how?

Thought that I could buy a large litre plastic container and run some tubing up to the sink. If it needed pressure maybe fit a bicycle pump into the side of the container.

-the units on the top flip up, underneath would be 6 inch deep trays to hold electronics, books and such. Would probably install two cabinet locks on these.

Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:19 pm

Exactly what kind of camper do you have? Those color descriptions ar confusing.
An early westy has a pump handle on the faucet, I have seen some other us made travel trailers with an air pressure system but an electric pump works well too.

The pump faucet works well and is available at most RV suppliers, no battery drain and won't flood the bus if it springs a leak.

Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:08 pm

busdaddy wrote: Exactly what kind of camper do you have? Those color descriptions ar confusing.
An early westy has a pump handle on the faucet, I have seen some other us made travel trailers with an air pressure system but an electric pump works well too.

The pump faucet works well and is available at most RV suppliers, no battery drain and won't flood the bus if it springs a leak.

The models a 1969 weekender deluxe, but im wondering myself how it came to the US. The flooring, which is original is this trippy patterned 60's viynl, the top of the z bed has a black viynl covering with chrome handles. None of these seem like the german design style.

I havent found anything on it but I think that it might have been retrofitted by a US company and sold in 1969. The seats and headliner all seem to match the 1969 transporter brochure.

The faucet doesn't have a pump on it though. I havent really dug around inside the cabinet much, all I can see in there is a massive chrome tank and some plumbing.

Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:31 pm

If it's got a headliner it's an aftermarket conversion. Other way to tell is body color around the inside windows (westy's have it, deluxes are headliner and kombi's are beige).

Definitely sounds like one of those funky 60's-70's air pressure water systems, could be a PITA but then again you dont have to pump all the time. :?

Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:32 pm

Quote: if it's got a headliner it's an aftermarket conversion. Other way to tell is body color around the inside windows (westy's have it, deluxes are headliner and kombi's are beige).

Stock bays didnt have headliners?? The one in here is a light grey, which matches the stock seats.

Wed Aug 22, 2007 5:48 pm

Stock factory Westfalia's had whitish (white birch) photofinish plywood headliners (roof only, body color to below windows), deluxe passenger busses had perforated off white vinyl that went down the sides to below the windows and kombis had bare metal painted beige.

Wed Aug 22, 2007 9:48 pm

anyone know how the mechanics of the sink works if the faucet doesnt have a pump on it?

Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:21 pm

Either an electric pump (demand or manually switched) or air pressure in the tank (tire stem or small compressor) Kinda like the window squirter.