Show us the last picture you took on your phone. (VW related or not!)

Interesting..
I learned about the duck shooting near Hampton loade, this week..

Thousands of mallards.. Quacking..

 

I'd guess the early 'Swiss Army' type includes small tools to pull stones out of horse shoes and a corkscrew for the wine, leading to the obvious conclusion that the other knife is for the cheese and bread

 

Somehow instead of the most recent I ended up on page 2 I wonder if Bertie the Bus ever sorted his parking issues.

 

Messing with a old landy (might be mine one day) think the rim is leaking and tax has run out

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Cheese knife...
Unknown at colly towers.. @CollyP

 

Does this look like a re-stamped (wonky) number? (on a replacement case?) or were the digits not necessarily dead straight on originals?
Also, the number has an extra "SF" before the 1967-1970 "F" before the numbers ... Shipped to South Africa.
Something to do with that maybe?

 

Did they play their plumber's song - Brass In Pocket?!

 

Let's Go !!!!

 

The wonkiest engines from VEGE have that number ground off and a tag starting 4545 riveted on..

It really doesnt matter any more. No endfloat, good oil pressure, good engine block. Low pressure , crank banging on the bearings, ooeerr.

 

I hate thin cast iron and stick welding it, the sticks stick then weld perfectly somewhere the end hits as its flailing about..

Welded up the hole in the side of the boat's Yanmar 1GM exhaust port once , using 3 sticks ..it was rubbish.. and then bashed it to bits.
Then put a copper backing plate on the now larger hole in the side of the exhaust port. Welded round the edges of the hole with nickel sticks and then ran out of sticks..only bought five.., and then used 0.8mm wire and MIG to build up up across about a 10mm gap as I was no longer welding to cast iron.
Went much better . . Managed to melt a cheapo aluminium chuck on the dremel while spinning a carbide burr really fast to clean up. It isnt great but it will last a few years, better than seawater spray and exhaust going straight into the oil ... then next time I will get it milled out and jam a bit of gas pipe in there . Still cheaper than £1100..

 

Definitely no end float, and ticks over/got me 135 miles back from London without incident ... but the whole thing is a "a bit South African" as in no rusty bits but a few after market things in there and a couple of wrong-year panels, and no signs of having been maintained well (crazy wiring, low and filthy oil in the breather, missing exhaust/exchanger boots, missing flexis etc etc) ... I have a feeling the engine might have been rebuilt.

 

Given that some kind of TLC is needed about every 50k miles with a T1 engine in a T2 van, the chances are the engine in your bus was rebuilt at least once by VW back in the day, acquiring extra characters on the crank case engine number marking, .In Germany it would have had a particular recycle marking, in South Africa, it was probably different.
Wonkiness would be somebody would have used a handheld tool to punch all the numbers in the factory originally.
And since then it has probably been worked on a few times ...

 

... I'm assuming as much, even though a T1 in a bug might tolerate longer intervals?

 

Did she sing "Anyone Seen my Glasses?"