So for the past week Dougie has been in the garage having a number of wrinkles ironed out.
The first being the rather alarming absence of gear lever, sadly the previous lever had been bodged one to many times so a new one is winging its way over from VW Heritage. Hopefully this will be fitted in the next couple of weeks.
The second fix will be for the fuel lines after a slightly embarrassing leak from a disconnected hose (stupidly I forgot to take a picture). So to be on the safe side all the fuel lines will be replaced with some shiny new, non-leaking ones.
As an add on the the fuel lines, we have also decided to fit a new fuel filter as I suspect the loss off power we experienced on the way back from the lakes is due to crud getting blocking the fuel intake at some point. Glow plugs are also going to be tested as the amount of smoke and lumpy start-ups suggests that not all of them are working as promised.
Luckily these are the only serious repairs, everything else is (vaguely) cosmetic.
For example, new windscreen wipers (which included free washer fluid, woo) and a new knob to control the heating fan. Gone will be the wire-pulled-out-of-switch bodge.
We have also been planning THE EPIC SCOTTISH ROAD TRIP and decided that we could really do with running the phone chargers and such off the leisure battery and not the van battery (at the very least to stop me having to beg jump starts off people). I am going to have a go at wiring another 12v socket direct to the leisure battery. How hard can it be?!
And speaking of wiring, the dash is going the be looked again. Since Dad 'fixed' the horn, half of the dash pod lights have been conspicuously absent.
Finally I have decided to start stockpiling wine. I suspect it will be needed!
The first being the rather alarming absence of gear lever, sadly the previous lever had been bodged one to many times so a new one is winging its way over from VW Heritage. Hopefully this will be fitted in the next couple of weeks.
The second fix will be for the fuel lines after a slightly embarrassing leak from a disconnected hose (stupidly I forgot to take a picture). So to be on the safe side all the fuel lines will be replaced with some shiny new, non-leaking ones.
As an add on the the fuel lines, we have also decided to fit a new fuel filter as I suspect the loss off power we experienced on the way back from the lakes is due to crud getting blocking the fuel intake at some point. Glow plugs are also going to be tested as the amount of smoke and lumpy start-ups suggests that not all of them are working as promised.
Luckily these are the only serious repairs, everything else is (vaguely) cosmetic.
For example, new windscreen wipers (which included free washer fluid, woo) and a new knob to control the heating fan. Gone will be the wire-pulled-out-of-switch bodge.
We have also been planning THE EPIC SCOTTISH ROAD TRIP and decided that we could really do with running the phone chargers and such off the leisure battery and not the van battery (at the very least to stop me having to beg jump starts off people). I am going to have a go at wiring another 12v socket direct to the leisure battery. How hard can it be?!
And speaking of wiring, the dash is going the be looked again. Since Dad 'fixed' the horn, half of the dash pod lights have been conspicuously absent.
Finally I have decided to start stockpiling wine. I suspect it will be needed!
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