T25 - Daily Driver Dudewagon

Its a 1990, 1.9L, Petrol, Manual, Watercooled T25,
One previous owner from new, 124,000 miles with service history.

The old boy who owned it was very sorry to be selling it, but his wife has mobility problems and could no longer get in and out of the vehicle - luckily for me, he was not a member of DBS - none of his sailing club pals advised him to "slam the fucker".

So he listed it in the wrong section on ebay, which Griff cleverly noticed and kindly put in the spotted for sale section - with half an hour to go I noticed it, fired off a couple of quick questions, and bidded.
Griff - I owe you, I will be treating you to cider of your choice at the next opportunity

Its in its original microbus form, 11 seats, twin sliding doors, (working!). The paint has been touched up hap hazardly, there is some filler in the rear arches, and the cab steps have been repaired. Underneath is solid, I can see no evidence of welding, or shunt damage, and none needed anytime soon touch wood.
Headlining is non existant, and some little darlings have pressed their hands and feet into the foam, so it actually, being yellow, looks like an upside-down sandy beach on the roof, without the dog shit and syringes tho
Seats/cab area is as expected for a 20yr old bus, but overal im pretty happy. It drove back ok, very quiet, apart from a slight clicking from one of the back brakes which im checking out next week...

TBC...

I helped griff find this

looks a good un!

have got a box of bits from my old one for you bud new manifold and ecu etc.... will sort it out next week

nice find young man

Was looking good fella, from what I could see in my rear view mirror!!

Saw these dude.....

http://krazydubclub.ilikethose.com/index.php?topic=3920.0

ProjectParsons wrote:

luckily for me, he was not a member of DBS - none of his sailing club pals advised him to "slam the fucker".

This proper made me laugh

it looks a nice bus, my brother did think about bidding on it to break it. but knowing what your like, in six months time when you part it out for spares i would like the square lamp grill

i will take the passenger side sliding door with window

You bastards!!!

(Ive only broken two cars ever though, one due to a house move and one coz I couldn't give the thing away...
I do buy and sell a few - but thats just a short attention span...)

You both have dibs...
But if I keep it for longer than 6 months, you have to buy me cider

ProjectParsons wrote:

But if I keep it for longer than 6 months, you have to buy me cider

I agree to that because your never at a meet or show to claim it also if you do sell it in the next 6 months, you have to buy me and griff a cider

O nearly forgot, when are you slamming it and putting some wheelige on ??

I love the DBS banter ......LOL

project parson parts ...LOL

dubberatlast wrote:

also if you do sell it in the next 6 months, you have to buy me and griff a cider

Deal!

No rimmage/slammage till I've done the boring stuff first...
As soon as I have another 12mths ticket then I'll have a look, cheers for the link to the rims tho scoops.

There are some rims that could go on at work, they are nearly new Fondmetals, but they are only 15's, and I don't think it'll look right til its a tad lower...



I've taken the first two rows of seats out, been looking at flooring/interior options...

i love the ones scoops put up and would myself but 15s are small lol my 16s are bad enough

what does it need for an mot?

It not due yet (start of april), Im going to give it a once over in the light this weekend, as I havn't really had chance yet, despite having it a week today.
I know the exhaust is going, the back brakes are delaminating I'd say, I've had to put 2 tyres on it so far, not the end of the world...
Need new seatbelts up front, as they are frayed.

I am in saving mode so have to be mindful not spunking money on it just for looks, if it stays ugly for a year so be it

you need any help bud holla, happy to weld the exhaust if needed

Cool cheers, its not the tailpipe/silencer, its those nasty little pipes in front, it will repair sleeve ok i think.

How much is yours lowered by dude?

not much but it was like it when bought so not sure, i want to go lower but funds wont ever allow that lmao

Exhaust link pipe fractured completly earlier in the week, so found a cheap ernst item that looked like it would do the job.
All nuts and bolts had rusted to nothing so it was just a case of cutting them off, unfortunatly as is somtimes the case with different makes of parts, things did not line up as planned,
I had to cut the backbox straps (seized) to rotate the rear section in order for it to line up, so its rattling and crashing about like a bugger for time being...

So I've got this coming hopefully sound a bit better, and last longer than the van!

cool i likes that

Mmmmmmmm, shiny pipes!!

New exhaust now fitted, super quick delivery from VW Speedshop.
Had to fit a shorter oil filter for clearance due to the pipework taking a different route from standard.
Plugs/leads/oil change done at same time.
Need to fit new engine mounts next, as its moving about a fair bit, which is causing a little knock on startup...

Sifting through the receipts I had found a rather large one for a replacement engine amonst other things...
After some enquiries with the previous owner and some engine code scrubbing, it turns out that its actually got the 2.1 MV 95bhp motor, running with an earlier pierburg carb, bonus

Now with 12months mot