1977 Westfalia Camper-The story of how we met

[notchboy]

Lots been going on. Had to move cuz I dissolved a relationship, built a new garage space and filled it. Today I broke it in. The rear right wheel bearing was bad for quite some time. Just been dreading the doing.

So I did it yesterday and today. Yesterday pulled it all apart, went to my cousin's house and built his new press so I could do this all with ease. Cleaned the housing up and pressed in the new bearings. Then this morning put it all back together. My ass is still cold.

The bus is soooo much quieter. The outer one was blown and when I took it apart, the castle nut was hand loose.

Now just need to fix some dash stuff and we are ready for Summer 2018

I cleaned deez........deez nutz!

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[calo1956]

Sweet camper, loved the video, and the surprise, how it work out for you?

[Tram]

[Xevin]

[notchboy]

Tramual is genetically predisposed to consider folks assholes. The older he gets, the more assholes he sees. Ive been trying to change my code for awhile. But its hard to do.

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[notchboy]

Big doings as usual here. Moved, that miserable sting is mostly gone from my memory due to the amazing weather here in San Diego and the love of a good woman.

I've been having stalling and or falling flat on her face issues ever since the engine rebuild and before. Its been tracked to two issues now - before the build, it would have been the triple relay ground wire. It was loose. After the build, it was once again that little bugger as it came loose during my mass exodus from Seattle through Oregon, not only that I kept getting the falling flat die problem after the wire was regrounded. Stuart gets to talking and finds out its the pointless ignition. He had been suspicious of it since day one when timing my new dizzy.

So I got a tune-up kit to go back to points. Yeah yeah, no one particularly likes the pointless stuff. Should have known better Jaja. Cept I ran one on my old 1776 on an Oh9 for years with no issues - and that was when they came out. Remember the early days of Petronix? 50% positive yield or something like that

Dealing with the stock FI is different. I guess the injector pulse is read off the points opening and closing - mechanically. The lack thereof makes it hard for the FI to read so it shuts off temporarily. So it stumbles while running.

So when Stu gets here Saturday with my trailer, Im thinking a tune-up is in order with new bits. Hopefully, this will cure a pretty rad running bus.

Adventures in San Diego so far.

Bought another bus.

Went to a couple of VW BBQ's

Went to a couple of shows.

Built a landing pad for a future shop.

All this after moving my sorry ass down here.

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[notchboy]

Little back road driving after Stuart put points in and changed out the double relay. Tour of Del Dios and Cardiff. Went to lunch with my girl on the beach at Las Olas.

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[Stuartzickefoose]

Fresh valve adjust, grease and adjust the new points, and new dual hella horns.

Celebrate and test drive with lunch

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Stuart Zickefoose

2011 Jetta Sportwagen TDi 6 speed manual

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[notchboy]

Its always nice to find official manuals, receipts and pictures to back up recollections from 40 plus years ago.

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[Bleyseng]

Ok, nice pics of all the buses and new digs but where is one of the girl?
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70 Ghia Black convert-9/69 build date-stock w/133k 1600 SP-barn find now with a rebuilt tranny and engine
77 Westy 2.0L w/Ljet, Camper Special engine-95hp and with LSD!(sold)
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87 Syncro Westy Titan Red 2.1L 2 knob 100k miles

[notchboy]

[wcfvw69]

[Tram]

I have a message for the comely young lass in my old yellow Bus:

"RUN FORREST RUN"
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Немає виправдання для війни! Я з Україною.

[Tram]

[Abscate]

Winces at Bus under work on jacks...



Congrats on your new cave,and your new relationship

Don’t forget to preload those bearings
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.ssS!

[notchboy]

So the latest in the cut-out issue I've had with this bus since I bought it. Stuart recently had a similar issue on his Vanagon. He tracked it down to the head temp sensor. We drove my bus the other day, had the cut-out issue, he grounded the switch lead skipping the sensor and I hadn't had a problem since.

Since then I have installed a new sensor from Bus Depot. Fingers crossed.

Also very good to be back in SoCal. Where you can sleep on the street in December.

Last ones of Lake Hodges when Stu and I cruzed a bit.

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[wcfvw69]

Wow.. Your friendship doesn't even warrant the spare bedroom in the home.

Pretty hurtful Stuart.
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[notchboy]

That's the way I found him. After his 1am roll up without warning Well some warning. You know when he says I "may" be by.
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[notchboy]

I think I have a winner for this bus.

Hankook DynaPro MT RT03 Off-Road Tire - 215/75R15 101Q

I wanted to still have the white letter out - 70's Style!

Here are the specs for the stock Audi/VW Steel Rims.

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[notchboy]

Shit just got real.

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