Doing a few bits to try and tighten up the throttle and have been looking to replace the below spring, but it doesn’t seem to be a normal part!! Is this a previous owner bodge up or am I looking in the wrong places?! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I thought this was a weather posting tbh....I was going to mention being sunburnt in March, snowed out in April some years.
Yes I think that spring is normal stock. It is not made out of liquorice but rusty metal in a VW bus.
Amazingly, it is original. Bit of an afterthought by VW, I think. Dunk it in some phosphoric acid (or even white vinegar) to get the rust off.
Ta very much . It’s not just the rust on it that’s a problem, it’s really floppy so the whole throttle linkage isn’t very tight. I’m gonna swap the linkage for one of Buttys jobs and change the carb springs for new ‘uns too, just wandering if it’s worth swapping that at the same time or even if it’d be necessary with those changes.
Back to the spring. Mine is the same as that. It’s only a light tension spring to help keep the throttles shut. If you want to tighten it a bit cable tie some of the coils together.
