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Just a quick one to add to my post above, the only real snag I had once I got used to applying the paint was rubbing through on a few of the high spots, I wasn't sure if touching it in with a brush would work very well, and because the paint was thinned I didn't know whether or not a can would come ...

Hi there, I've not been on this forum for a long time as I've not had a T3 for a few years, (I'm now onto T4's), :( but when I did, (I had 3), I found this thread and considered but never did paint my vans with Rustoleum. As well as owning and restoring a few VW vans I am a serial car restorer and h...

If it were my van I would still be poking around with an ammeter to check the current draw when ignition off and on you could have more than one fault and shorts can catch fire. I don't know what a diesel takes when running not sure if a standard 10A meter is enough? Don't worry I'm going to, I don...

So why did the battery go flat? or perhaps it didn't and you thought it did because of the measurement? I'm not sure, the earth must have been gradually degrading to the point it wouldn't start, it definitely did so during my fault finding because at the beginning of the process on Friday I had dim...

Fixed, using a bit of logic I thought there was no way that all the live feeds could coincidentally be 7.4 volts being a Westy there s also the live feed under the drivers seat, so it had to be something common to all, so I bridged the battery earth to the body with some mole grips and hey presto I ...

Right then, I've had another delve into it, and can confirm that at the live feed in (red thick gauge wire from loom) to the back of the fuse board I have only 7.5 volts, the same goes for the feed into the ignition switch (which comes from the adjacent terminal to the feed in), also I only have 7.5...

That's useful info, cheers

Yep appreciate that chaps, I'm a bit miffed to be honest, I've been in the trade for 20+ years and haven't been beaten before so this is a bit embarrassing for me especially as the T3 is pretty simple.

Hey up chaps, I have a bit of a problem, wonder if anyone has had experience of this before I go fault finding as it's quite specific. I've just fitted a replacement JX engine in the van, all is/was good, no problems with the engine. Before I fitted the engine there were no issues with starting, or ...