What did YOU do to your van today?

[vanis13]

[riceye]

[jlrftype7]

Had a strange source of heat out of the passenger floor duct area at speed. But drivers side only gave ambient air temps while driving.

I’d already adjusted the 10cc heater valve cable a few weeks ago, and that got rid of the really small amount of hot air out of the drivers side once adjusted.

So, I went to the next step and added an in line shut valve in the heater hose under the dash this morning. Ran the engine , ran the heater, checked the floor vent output with valve on and off. No heat from the passenger vent.
Hmm, then I spotted the real culprit…

The big oval rubber grommet in the floor where hoses and cables run through, was no longer fully seated. Hot air from the Radiator was flying up through the gap, not a heater core issue.
Then wrapped the grommet to the floor with aluminum duct tape and added a small piece of Reflectix to act as one more heat shield against the body and behind the plastic ductwork.

Test drove on Lake Shore , only cool air out of the passenger and drivers floor vents- success.
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'68 Westy- my first VW and vehicle/Bus- long gone.- sold it to a traveling Swiss couple....
'67 Type 3 Fastback, my 2nd car- gone
'69 Semi-Auto Stick Shift Beetle-gone
2017 MINI Coopers, our current DDs
‘84 Tin Top - Hilga....Auto

[littlejoe]

First time getting to post here since having my last van 20 years ago!

Did the following on my new-to-me 83,5 Westy this week...
- Spark plugs and wires
- Distributor cap, rotor, o-ring
- Fuel lines, injector seals, rails and filter
- Vacuum lines
- Coolant flush and refill
- Breather tower o-ring
- Hookup boxes
- Roof seals
- H4 Hellas with LEDs
- Washed the curtains (for the first time ever?)

Was idling piss poor when I drove it home 500 miles. Oil pressure lights on idle and just had to feather the gas to keep it alive on the line. Considering half of the vacuum lines were crumbled to dust I'm surprised it drove at all. It idles sooooo much better now and no more warning lights.

I created a couple new gremlins in the process (as is tradition), but I'll leave those for another thread.

[dhaavers]

^^^ Sweet! Looks damn clean, nice rig!



- Dave
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86 White Wolfsburg Westy Weekender
"The WonderVan"
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[bobbyblack]

Packed up a bus load of gig gear to trolley into town for a backyard (in town) party where my (our?) band played for "The Fest" .. annual thing, usually happens at my place, but adult beverages and 6 miles from town don't seem to get the party goers to stop by.

So, with a minimal gig rig packed, and inbound towards town, I started hearing the too obvious sounds of brake pad liners having gone too long. So, I'm hopeful that within 10 days, I can resolve this, likely the first brake rehab in this T3's life (80K on the odometer), in time to send the R1, with my kids, towards their camping destination. Only 6 hours each way!!

I'm keeping my hopes up that I can find all my bits and pieces to put this back on the road in worthy condition for the next month

Oh, ya.. I do have trippleA and other options to get R1 home again, regardless!

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'87 Westy 'Flossie','86 Westy 'R1','86 tintop GL - Subi2.2 'J2','83.5 stock tintop L 'ZoomBus','74 Karmann Ghia, '63 Notch

[dhaavers]

Go, Bobby, go!

- Dave
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86 White Wolfsburg Westy Weekender
"The WonderVan"
<EDITED TO PROTECT INNOCENT PIXELS>

[AlfromNH]

Took a deep breath and cut a new opening in the coat closet. The hole is sized for a fridge door, but I have a roll-up tambour door I’ll be installing. Also added two shelves to maximize use of the space.
I’ve ordered the trim from Bus Depot, does anyone know what size router slotting bit is needed?

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‘88 2wd Auto Westy project

[ProvoCyclist]

Slowly but surely making progress, it’s been unpleasantly hot here lately. I finally began painting my 16” wheels. I’d forgotten that I bought a dark gray paint, but I’m still happy with the results. It takes about one can per wheel.

I also degreased the engine, i know its not perfect, but its much better than when i started. Yes, I did cover the intake ports with some gorilla tape, this is after it was dry and everything was uncovered.

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Clark
Current: 1986 Tintop GL 2wd, stock 2.1L, manual trans, Savanna Beige Metallic LH1V.
Past: 1985 Sunroof GL, 2wd, Subaru 3.3L, manual trans, resprayed to Diamond Silver L97A

[Kdj]

[13b Bro]

[AlfromNH]

[dhaavers]

^^^ Fabric backing, or similar? I’m not intimately familiar with tambour doors…

- Dave
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86 White Wolfsburg Westy Weekender
"The WonderVan"
<EDITED TO PROTECT INNOCENT PIXELS>

[shadetreemech]

Installed a rebuilt Maval Power Steering Rack and Pinion and scheduled an alignment.

The last one lasted 5 years.
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'84 GL 1.9
'01 Volvo V70 T5
'88 Westy - "MZDRTHY"

[Jeff Tamarack]

AAZ Brake Boost Repair - Oil in the line.

Ended up a while ago putting a check valve about 20” away from the brake boost vacuum pump after thinking the connection to the pump, that had broken off, wasn’t anything more than a connection. I had fabbed up something from some plumbing parts at the time.

Today I installed another check valve at the vacuum pump with some 1/2” plumbing pex to accept the check valve I got off of amazon and an insert of some sprinkler hose or something to take the connection down to 3/8”. We’ll see how it holds up.

Jeff

[jlrftype7]

Washed and Waxed the Vanagon. By hand no less. I could have broken out one of several buffers, but didn’t , I kept it manual today.
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'68 Westy- my first VW and vehicle/Bus- long gone.- sold it to a traveling Swiss couple....
'67 Type 3 Fastback, my 2nd car- gone
'69 Semi-Auto Stick Shift Beetle-gone
2017 MINI Coopers, our current DDs
‘84 Tin Top - Hilga....Auto

[pbrown]

I replaced the old engine cover foam with Dynamat Hood Liner.

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Patrick Brown

1986 Westy Syncro EJ25
Flickr --> https://flic.kr/s/aHsmQNUXEF

[pbrown]

Today's project was to replace the old and warped front rotors. This is a G60 Small-Car brake setup. I sourced new rotors and pads from Rock Auto.
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Patrick Brown

1986 Westy Syncro EJ25
Flickr --> https://flic.kr/s/aHsmQNUXEF

[Jeff Tamarack]

Dealer installed air conditioning switch repair.

Just a bit of a road hack repair on the a/c switch. The ground overheated itself off over time so after taking the switch apart and cleaning it up I’m using some copper RTV and some creative electrical tape work to hold the ground in position until I get the proper GoWesty switch.

Jeff

[littlejoe]

Drained a water tank that has been full of the same water for 20 years.



Must have been some hard water. The minerals had settled to the bottom like sand.
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Current: 83,5 Westy
Gone, but not forgotten: 57 Beetle, 71 Beetle, 82 Westy, 84 GTI, 01 New Beetle, 05 Passat Wagon, 06 Jetta, 08 Touareg, 09 Passat, 10 Touareg, 10 GTI, 19 GTI
Gone, firmly forgotten: 06 Jetta, 21 ID4