Milly my 1979 Westfalia Berlin Deluxe Vanilly my 1971 half a Beetle trailer

Some other bits I bought in Octoberfest a five pin rellay so I can flash my headlights without the lights on, a bold for my battery earth clamp & a pair of brand new UK style Hella headlights.




Fitted my new front Alpine speakers & run in new OFC speaker wires.
Soldered & heatshrunk the ISO connections on, at the moment there is no ignition wire at the radio but I'll sort that soon & I'll wire up the illumination circuit.
Notice my new window winders?








Fitted my GPS aerial too on top of the dash board.

 

Had a great day Saturday playing bus fitted my new Empi shifter replacement for the one I snapped in Chug Chug:-

 

Went over Penllergaer Woods again to take more photos:-

 

Went over Penllergaer Woods again to take more photos:-

 

A guy called Suart called in to see me for a chat & I ended up going down his lock up to see his Beach Buggy, it was actually in a James Bond film in 1985 & the good news is that he plans on restoreing it to how it was then.









Went out down the Mumbles with My M8's Kevin, Clare & kids & Ali, Sue & kids. stoped first at Knab rock.

 

Katy decided to climb the kids playground:-


Then Kevin did:-



Spotted this old Splitty in Mumbles:-




& this old Volvo estate:-


3 of us Lined up out side the chippy:-


Even got a couple of pics in the chippy:-

 

Car park in Langland Bay:-

 

Spent yesterday afternoon playing with my lights, I removed the USA spec General Electric sealed beam units & disconected the grey wire from the front indicators (this is the side light feed) pushed this wire into the headlight bowl through the standard grommet kept the original spade so I didn't have to modify the wiring. I wouldn't recomend breaking any cables that are outside the vehicle so I ran a new earth cable put a ring on one end & secured it to the headlight bowl on the inside ot the bus to the location already used. pushed the cable through the grommet & fitted a size 2 red spade, used a brown wire to be consistant with the VW colours. Notice the UK spec indicator it has a twin fillament lamp & a small sidelight lamp so three separate light sources as opposed to the UK's one.

Fitted a pair of H4 lamps to the new Hella units I picked up & the side light bulb holders I salvaged from Chug Chug.
Connected them all up & now they are UK road legal. You'll notice that the UK Hella units glass is flat where as the USA versions are curved.

 

Decided to sort out the Flashers while I was playing the USA lights only flash when the lights are on where as the UK ones flash with them on or off. I removed the standard relay which as it happened was a 5 pin anyway fitted a size 3 red spade & red wire to the terminal 30 opened up the terminall location on the fuse box & refitted my new 5 pin relay. I connected this to a permanant live so now I can flash the headlights with the lights & ignition off (they just stay on untill you let go of the stalk) they also flash on & latch when the lights are on (drop off when you flash again). I may alter this so it only works with the ignition on I haven't decided.

 

Got the Westy tow bar that was on Chug Chug off before he was scrapped. Had to weld the tag for the electrics back on because it snapped when I straightened it. My M8 Dean got it picked up shot blasted phospher coated & white powder coated for me. & now it looks the dogs *****. The black marks are from where I trial fitted it. It won't fit properly because the Previous owner fitted J-tubes instead of the heat exchangers & this makes the exhust sit higher, when I get heat exchangers back on I'll fit it then & wire it in then I can tow my new Beetle trailer:-

 

Got my new Propex heater yesterday, looking forward to fitting this I'll post full details when I do:-

 

Going to wire in my heater fan tomorrow weather permiting here is a diagram:-

 

Wired up & fitted my fresh air fan & it works so happy days, I also got my fridge working off the leasure battery, not sussed out the tap yet though, the split charging system isn't working its been wired wrong & I'll need to sort it.




Pics of batteries both will be changed soon:-



Going to fit this next my reversing alarm:-


Checked my back lights & I had a reversing light out so sorted it, happy to report my back lights are as new if not new & are Hella:-

 

Started looking into the mains hook up stuff in the bus today, in the USA they have 100V AC 60Hz supply in the UK they have a 240V AC 50Hz supply.
In the USA they use White, Black & Green cables in the UK they use Brown, Blue & Green/Yellow (Live, Neutral & earth)

Its my intention to convert the bus to the UK spec & fetch it up to date with the use of an RCD I don't want to make it look modern though so I'm going to use as much of the old kit as I can.








All the gear is underneath the rock & roll bed I'm going to use new Twin & Earth in UK colours, I've noticed that the earths are not sleaved I'm not sure if this is normall in the USA but in the UK all bare conductors are sleaved Green/Yellow for the CPC.

 

Nearly forgot I bought this from Britania tow bars its a lighter for the stove & its long so you don't burn your fingers. Its a must have accessory for the wife.