My Bay won't start! Please read!

There's a vintage vehicle restoration and repair centre near Inverness that I have just discovered. They do MOTs too! I think from now on, after fitting this Dizzy, I will just use them all the time! MOTs up next month... No work done last year and no advisories last year... Wonder how she will fair this year

 

I feel another skype session is needed @Clive Neilands or any other dizzie/timing gods on here

 

9min and 19secs to fit



Did you use to live in Wales

 

thats not very helpful Daniel Macrae has a type 4

 

Same as any petrol engine with a dizzy just the holes in a deferent place

 

I'm just looking forward now to getting this part fitted and putting an end to the popping! I've been told that this part will stop the popping so fingers crossed

 

Was 20 ish minutes for me to change to electwanix on my Type 4, though some have been known to say I'm a numpty!

 

It will probably be vacuum hoses

 

Is this the part you mean? http://www.justkampers.com/n0203535-vacuum-hose-3-5mm-diameter-sold-per-1-2-meter.html

 

I was a bit bored but then I though, "tune into the thread that just keeps giving".

Whereabouts exactly are you in Scotland? I lived up in the highlands for eight years and I certainly didn't have a big choice of garages. If you've found one that actually knows about VW's I'd treasure him and buy him coffee and cakes. I certainly wouldn't take my van to yet another garage just because he can't fit my van in for three days because he's busy fixing my car.

 

I'm in Dornoch, Sutherland. Its not that I couldn't wait... Colin just doesn't seem keen to take the van back again! I think he's just sick of the sight of it though haha

 

Ahh, not a million miles from where I was then. A most beautiful part of the country. Is Colin a proper trading garage? If so I can't see why he wouldn't want your van back.
I've gone through a few welder type people who now run away when they see me coming but engine stuff is just ordinary garage type stuff.

 

this video runs for 21 minutes...he talks veeerrry veeerrryy slllooooooowwwly....it takes ten nimutes if that....no additional parts needed

if you've no timing scale and can use a ruler, you're good to go

 

Is that an Underwater Nimrod? The Russians were always mystified as to how they worked...

 

Carbs....worth sending the above link to Colin, if he's not had much experience with twin Solex carbs...principles are the same for different models/years

He won't be insulted...he's a mechanic

To remove, strip, clean, rebuild and refit a pair of these will take a good, conscientious mechanic at least three hours, including slurping Tea and fag breaks

in the vid, he spends some time setting the gaps between the throttle plate (round brass thing) and the carb body.....both carbs will need to be done identically....this is critical to smooth idle and all subsequent adjustments to fuel/air mixture

 

As you well know the subsequent board of enquiry absolved me of almost all responsibility and said it wasn't really all my fault and they only put me in military prison for a few years.