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I have just purchased an A Reg 1983 water-cooled T25 hitop.

A few things I would like answered, or any help provided would be gratefully received.

1) I did what most new owners do, when buying a secondhand vehicle, and that was to fill it up with petrol - for only it to leak for 40 minutes - I do understand this is a known fault of the top of the petrol tank rusting. Does anyone know where a good garage is ( preferrably in SE London / Kent / Sussex areas ) which could fix / replace this?

2) General appearance of the 25 year old T25 is OK ( it could be better !). Some rusting round the windows, bottom of doors, etc. Also, when this is fixed, a respary would be beneficial.  Again, any garages that specialise in this field, in the same areas.

3) Fitted in is an Electrolux '3 way fridge'. On electric hook up it works. The other two ways, from the battery when the T25 is moving doesnt seem to work, neither does the gas. No handbooks were passed over, so its the blind leading the blind on this. Also, the fridge, when on hook-up doesnt get that cold, is this a common fault?

4) I have ploughed the web, but cannot find any specialist garages at all, I am assuming that most ' normal ' garages will do servicing, MOTs etc?

My thoughts exactlly MartyM...mines a 1983 as well

Happy camping dude

Nannycatch  

Many thanks MartyM and Nancycatch - have registered with both sites,,,,,

Cheers

MJBS

Hi

Ignore Jinnan's bit about the coolant as yours is Air Cooled... Obviously had to much Jinnan

When I had my old T2 aircooled one of the best bits I fitted for the running side of it was one of the electronic ignition kits (Pertronix), smoothed out the running and much better starting.

As already stated check around for isolating valves to the fridges gas system, my old T25 Westy had taps at the underfloor tank as well as in the kitchen cupboard and they all had to be pointing the right way.

Quote: Originally posted by AndyVines on 01/9/2008

Hi

Ignore Jinnan's bit about the coolant as yours is Air Cooled... Obviously had to much Jinnan

Quote: Originally posted by MartyM on 01/9/2008

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Quote: Originally posted by AndyVines on 01/9/2008

Hi

Ignore Jinnan's bit about the coolant as yours is Air Cooled... Obviously had to much Jinnan

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I would say its you thats p*ssed, unless you just know nought about T25s--- the OP states the van is watercooled, '83 being the year the WBX was introduced & all petrol T25s air or watercooled already have electronic ignition. Petronix is an upgrade for T2s.

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Sorry miss-read the watercooled aircooled bit, as you also miss-read my post as I did state that I had the Pertonix on my old T2, and my comment was tongue in cheek as per my smiley inserted.

My T25 was the 1.6 turbo diesel running extra boost and fuelling, good performance and economy.

Whats happened to the friendly VW people of old?

Quote: Originally posted by AndyVines on 02/9/2008

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Sorry miss-read the watercooled aircooled bit, as you also miss-read my post as I did state that I had the Pertonix on my old T2, and my comment was tongue in cheek as per my smiley inserted.

My T25 was the 1.6 turbo diesel running extra boost and fuelling, good performance and economy.

Whats happened to the friendly VW people of old?

 Hey chill, sorry if I have offended you, I admitted I got it wrong and had miss-read the original.

As for the JX it was a NOS imported engine from Germany so it was deemed by the VW specialist to be a worthwhile tweek, the van was sold on and the new owner is aware of the modifcation.

Although we enjoyed our years with the VW's we were away so much that we decided to go for something bigger, and now have our Hymer A Class, still got a flat four though in the guise of a Subaru Legacy 250T, now that engine in the back of my old T2 Westy would have been fun.

Another excellent forum is

http://forum.80-90.co.uk/

They have a wikipedia section which covers all known T25 probs and then some

The other one is

http://www.brick-yard.co.uk/forum/

Kev