Tag: electrics
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roadtrip fails in the Doka
going away for the weekend in your T3 ? just pop a spare starter motor in with your holiday stuff – you know – on the off chance that the one in the DOKA will pack up 300km from home….
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Arrived from brickwerks and put in these black anodised cargo eyes in the back of the Doka decorative and functional – dunctional? Also fitted an oil extension and t piece into the sump fitting for oil pressure switch – now with temp and pressure sensors wired in… The joy of proper crimpers finishes off the…
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Instrument upgrades and wiring on the doka
Threading signal wire through sleeving ready to play ‘ticket to ride’ with vw t3 wiring in the doka – linking to the oil pressure and temp gauges fitted into the heater duct cover in the front. Go from the new gauges in the cab to the engine bay – following the route of factory wiring…
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Square Headlight conversion on the doka
Doing an upgrade to later style square headlamps on the doka with a wiring loom upgrade at the same time – the existing round lamps and old style loom barely illuminate the road at night and on long roadtrips and kinda sketchy – the lamps only get around 10.5 v as it is and the…
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Taking the very pretty campervanculture headlamp upgrade loom and sleeving it to run power under the chassis rather than under the carpet – more DOKA upgrades in progress – the one I installed in the black westie last year was worth every penny Also Trying cheap windscreen fix fluid on the numerous cracks and chips…
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‘what does that wire even do?’ doka edition
Having a fun game of ‘what does that wire even do?’ . Each player picks a non-factory previous owner’s wiring loom addition and removes it at random – if the vehicle still starts you stay in the game … after 45 minutes of tracing and cutting i’m still in the game ! The winner gets…
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fixing temp gauge in doka?
Could be that the reason the #t3 doka double cab temperature gauge and coolant sensor indicator is being wired is because the relay that controls it all is missing…. it turns out that (on later inspection of the bentley factory manual) the relay is screwed to the bulkhead up behind the instrument panel because putting…
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fixing lazy starter in the doka?
Starter motor on the double cab #t3 is super lazy and the solenoid sticks – so – a Sunday of crawling under it and twisting arms into impossible positions extracts the starter – and the starter bushing in the gearbox – new bushing in and solenoid cleaned – let’s see how it goes
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instrument illumination in the doka
The #T3 #doka cooling system is still fubar from the LPG install and the swap to a post ‘86 style engine so do the important stuff like fixing the blown heater illumination or swap the old dash bulbs to LED
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More EFI wiring on the WBX engine
Mike and Lucian came over and we started doing more work on the 2.1l EFI MV wbx motor on the engine stand. More work on the loom and plumbing on the cooling system, oil system and getting ready for coil pack mounts… – to think I used to work on engines sat on the floor.…