Hi All, I've recently purchased a '69 transporter (VIN 229-235-069). It had no seats except the driver and passenger buckets. It has a plywood box constructed in the back that can be used as a bed and I added a short bench (origin unknown but it's out of some vw van at a local vw wrecker) so now it's a 4 passenger van. It's got some rot under the windshield that has been sloppily repaired but it looks like it can be salvaged it also has surface rust and dents and nicks all over the place. It's green with a white/rust roof. The previous owner told me that it has sway bars and gas Bilstein shocks and it does handle a bit stiff. It is however blown all over the road quite easily. The engine is 2 years old with a higher lobed cam than stock (how much I don't know) and it seems to be quite well tuned except for a minor idle problem that I haven't looked into yet. The main engine problem right now is that it leaks a LOT of oil. It will leak a little while driving as the rear of the bus got speckled with oil and soon the speckles merged into a fine coating. It dumps about a cup of oil when I stop and this seems a bit odd to me. I'm going to be getting the 'Idiots guide' as soon as I can find it and probably the Haynes manual as I live just around the block from the Haynes offices. Any other advice is appreciated as I seem to have found a new hobby. I want to get a Thing as my next project. Cheers Scott Beckstead ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any nation that trades Liberty for Security deserves neither. ---Ben Franklin conrad@centcon.com sbeckst@dpc.com becksteads@aol.com
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