What did YOU do to your van today?

[seatown7]

A before and after for the powder coating of my stove face plate. Installed it today before the holiday feasting began.

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Current Rig: 1987 Westfalia with Subaru 2.2 conversion, Kennedy Engineering adapter plate, Peloquin limited slip differential, Schwenck springs, Rad-Flow shocks, Burley Big Brake front discs, Burley Rear Disc Brake kit, T3 Technique 711 Shifter, 16" Audi wheels, T3 Technique steering reinforcement, T3 Technique HD anti-sway bar, Powerflex bushings, 100w solar panel, Power-Sonic Life-Po house battery, Burley rear swing out spare tire carrier.

[BigPapaV]

Finished adjusting my shift assembly via markward's instructions with the bungie cord and a quarter. All gears are easy to get, and feels SOOO much better.

Before today I had tried the adjustment with my wife's help, but I thought I had read somewhere that the shift shaft elbow should be straight up and down. With that thought I had tried to pre-set or "twist" the rear shaft into this position and lock it down as such. Then when I checked the shifting 1st gear was actually R, and 3rd was 1st.
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1986 VW 3-knob Syncro Tintop w/ 1992? Suby Legacy 2.2L (KEP install)

[dhaavers]

[jlrftype7]

[RicMcK]

Rust repair, sound proofing and insulation.

Repaired the shelf behind the cabinet (at rocker panel). Rust Mort, Por 15, truck bed paint. Bonded in some sheet metal pieces to re make the shelf.
Removed all the fiberglass insulation.
Removed minor surface rust along the seams, and around the service panels(wire wheel, rust Mort / Rust fix, Por 15, truck bed paint).
Applied sound deading mats, and 1/2"open cell foam
Cut and glued single sided Thinsulate.
Fixed Rt rear leading edge quarter panel seam (water ingress into space between the rear of the sliding door and wheel well seam. De rusted, and treated the surface rust.

Cleaned up my Aux battery service panel, and associated wiring (battery ACR...) .

More to come:
Sound mats under cabinets
sliding doors and shelves for the closet.
sound proofing and insulation headliner, sliding door, rear hatch.
Sound mats on the metal on the engine lid area (seams covered with aluminum tape).
New front door, and A/C cabinet speakers
Manis Speed Throttle body.
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Rick McK
Seattle
89 Westfalia-2.2L WBX "VINNY"
2006 TDI Jetta
1936 Ford Pick up
70 tin top, 700k mi when sold in 91
58 split window bug - (first car) long gone.

[fxr]

Prophylactically refurbished the Chinese Diesel Heater with a new glow-plug, body temperature sensor and added a tiny drop of machine oil to the fan bearing. All ready for a winter trip or two - Alabama Hills next week.

I also replaced the CR1220 in the Afterburner controller - and spotted why this one appeared to have died within a year - the +ve connection to the circuit board must have been a very dry joint and had finally parted. Re-flowed that and all seems hunky-dory!
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Jim Crowther
1984 1.9l EJ22 Westy Wolfsburg Edition
Vespa GTS 300

[AlfromNH]

Removed a bent radius rod. Took. Some doing…

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‘88 2wd Auto Westy project

[randolph57]

Finally finished my Vitrifrigio fridge installation powered by Lifepo4 105 Ah battery fitted behind/under drivers seat.Fridge choice confirmed after meeting 'Sam' at the T3 Busmeet early August at the end of his several month Europe Sabbatical!
Only real thought I had was to attempt to fit Vitrifrigo mounting frame inside original cabinet rebate instead of notching the cabinet where the rubber strip is left hand side. It was tight and I think it has turned out OK plus if next owner (unlikely) wants to return to original it can be done as all original wiring is still in place. Cold beers on demand:)

[jlrftype7]

Scarped and brushed all our recent snow off the Vanagon for a drive around town.
We got approximately 8 inches a few days ago, then another 3-4 inches fell last night. Time to dig out the VW before it got snowed in .
The Dunlop Snow Tires are still working well. I had good grip while driving through our Winter Wonderland.
Packed snow, slick tracks on side streets, and cleared main streets.
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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

[campism]

Exacted revenge on the hickory tree that fell and crushed it last winter. We bucked and split and stacked the wood last spring and now that woodstove season is here we're burning that sumbitch.
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'87 Westy in Wolfram Grey Metallic, tragically crushed by a falling hickory tree in my own driveway and now gone, leaving me Vanagonless and with no plans to replace it, alas.

[vanis13]

[campism]