The Split Screen Van Club

Yes to timing, doing comp test now...


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Hi all, Haven't posted for a while since I've been away working and haven't had much time to work on let alone drive my bus! But got her running again recently after redoing my heads, pistons and rings, and a thorough service of my .... carb, a Brosol h30/31 PICT. So it starts well, drives fine on f...

Hi and Happy New Year! The trims are marked VW SWF and yes, I believe they are for US spec lenses ie the SLIGHTLY smaller ones. I thought US lenses were the all red ones...? Why there are two different lenses so close in size I cannot imagine, but anyway I just took my orange and red lenses off and ...

Hi all and happy silly season. So... my '62 11 window had rear lights when I bought her 8 years ago, but no seals or trim. I assumed they were the correct orange and red lensed originals. Then I was lucky enough to find a set of chrome trim rings, complete with VW logo stamped on them, at a swap mee...

Hahaha I thought this was a uniquely South African thing! (Since almost all our buses have been exported.) I hear this ALL the time!


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Trying to remove my #*@&ing flywheel gland nut. I've heated and cooled it, tried all sort of combinations of handles on the 36mm socket. Any other ideas? I'm thinking of welding a long piece of angle iron to it next...


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So I just whipped my heads off to replace my dented leaky old pushrod tubes with nice shiny new stainless steel ones. First time I've had the heads off this engine but it continues to surprise me! A few weeks ago I found no gasket behind the oil pump cover, now I find two different pistons on the RH...

Chrystal: I got my quick shift kit from JK. Not sure what the brand was but JK part no J11070. It was a bit of a fiddle to get it to fit right, but probably cos I was doing it on my own with no one to hold the mechanism from underneath. I had to adjust it once to solve the reverse problem you're des...

Don't know about those fancy shifters but I fitted the metal 'quick shift' kit which is basically a diamond shaped collar that goes around the stock gear stick and bolts above the original shift plate limiting the travel. Really big improvement over stock, much more precise feel and looks totally st...

Hahaha just read the old "Fast Bus Owners" thread which has given me some food for thought... Let me clarify what I'm after: I want reliability foremost, but would like to be able to cruise at a steady 60mph minimum since I will be driving longish distances for weekends away and don't want to take t...

Hey all, Well I'm taking the plunge: while I've got the motor out I've decided to go for a full rebuild. Just too many signs that it's been really abused (eg a complete lack of gasket on the oil pump cover and oil cooler! Amazing any oil stayed in there at all!) and don't want to refit it in my nice...

Sorry my mistake, I meant the in/out pump, not cover. If I were to use a single port pump cover and the stock pump, where would the other connection go? Simplicity of the in/out pump aside, does one method have an advantage over the other? Thanks!

One more question: Would the in and out pump cover still work if an oil cooler was added later, or will it only work for a filter alone?

I'd like to do the same thing ie just fit the spin on filter. Makes sense to me that any additional filtration is a good thing, provided you're not restricting oil flow, and you probably get an extra half litre or so oil capacity which won't hurt. I have a marine engineering background and I've alwa...

Corvair that dark grey and black colour scheme looks very smart!


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