Well, if it's any consolation; all the fuel filter cleanouts provided copious amounts of levity to your readership. It also demonstrated that you're clearly a gambler and too damn patient. :)Amskeptic wrote: ↑Fri Feb 09, 2018 10:12 amYeah, it kinda turned out that way.airkooledchris wrote: ↑Tue Dec 15, 2015 1:51 pmId be worried that the fuel filler cleanouts will be needed for a long time before it clears itself completely.
Colin
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1970 Westfalia bus. Stock 1776 dual port type 1 engine. Restored German Solex 34-3. Restored 205Q distributor, restored to factory appearance engine.
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What did it get down to, 4 miles between clean outs? That would have put me in an asylum.
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X100!
1970 Westfalia bus. Stock 1776 dual port type 1 engine. Restored German Solex 34-3. Restored 205Q distributor, restored to factory appearance engine.
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400 feet between clean-outs. That last day was unbelievable.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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That *itinerary* was unbelievable. While keeping us glued to the screen for updates on the progress, i'll happy return to waxed floorboards and freshly painted roadside heater boxes.
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Well, NaranjaWesty did give me another nail-biter with those Bigsert installations. So far so good.airkooledchris wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2018 3:30 pmThat *itinerary* was unbelievable. While keeping us glued to the screen for updates on the progress, i'll happy return to waxed floorboards and freshly painted roadside heater boxes.
Waxed floorboards, not yet.
Freshly painted heater box on a refrigerator box, check:
We do have a roadside CVboot replacement coming up. These factory originals did good, but it's time.
ColinInMidFlorida
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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What "new" brand of boot are you "gambling with on the CV joints? So much info on what boots last and which ones fail after a year.
My 69 bug is running its original CV joints boots. They are still perfect.
My 69 bug is running its original CV joints boots. They are still perfect.
1970 Westfalia bus. Stock 1776 dual port type 1 engine. Restored German Solex 34-3. Restored 205Q distributor, restored to factory appearance engine.
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I have two Lobro boots and two Rein boots.
Long Term Test - stay tuned
Long Term Test - stay tuned
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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Did'ja put the small ring clamps on two boots and leave the other two clampless, just to add more variables?
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Hasn't happened yet.
But I will use a plastic tie on one of them, a kit ring clamp on another, and clampless on the other two. I have been clampless through almost all of my VW history. The boots on NaranjaWesty have been real troupers. Sat motionless for twenty years then pow! let's go across the country! Heat! Ozone! 33,400 additional miles!
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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Did you ever find the missing seat bracket cover? I just found two, one for each side....as they have been unobtainium for years.
Geoff
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70 Ghia vert, black, stock 1600SP,- 139,000 miles,
76 914 2.1L-Nepal Orange- 160,000+ miles
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77 Sage Green Westy- CS 2.0L-160,000 miles
70 Ghia vert, black, stock 1600SP,- 139,000 miles,
76 914 2.1L-Nepal Orange- 160,000+ miles
http://bleysengaway.blogspot.com/
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Yes. I ordered four. Gave one away. Decent quality!
NLA Parts in Britain. Embarrassingly, they arrived days before the Bus Depot parts ordered on the same day.
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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles
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And the LHS is out of stock!
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check at GoWesty as they had some too
Geoff
77 Sage Green Westy- CS 2.0L-160,000 miles
70 Ghia vert, black, stock 1600SP,- 139,000 miles,
76 914 2.1L-Nepal Orange- 160,000+ miles
http://bleysengaway.blogspot.com/
77 Sage Green Westy- CS 2.0L-160,000 miles
70 Ghia vert, black, stock 1600SP,- 139,000 miles,
76 914 2.1L-Nepal Orange- 160,000+ miles
http://bleysengaway.blogspot.com/
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I don't understand Bus Depot's business model. I'd certainly use them more if they shipped the same day and told Ron that. But, they don't change their shipping policy so they lose my business. People are too accustomed to Amazon's blazing fast shipping, especially with Prime to want to wait days/weeks for a business to ship parts they say are in stock.
1970 Westfalia bus. Stock 1776 dual port type 1 engine. Restored German Solex 34-3. Restored 205Q distributor, restored to factory appearance engine.