I. Silly idea to put a air cooled engine in a steel box at the rear of a vehicle..It seems that the chance of fire is a real problem.(one caught fire at the above mentioned show) :er: I have been around type 2 vws campers for years,(used to be on the type 2 owners club committee),and in fact have 2...

it was leaving a small pool of oil after parking it up in the garage, but when using it the next day in 2wd it was fine.

Is it possible to change the main subject heading, as it should now read that its actually out there.

Just a few extra pictures of my first few days with the sj up above the village.

I guess its to do with pointing the camera down the hill to take the photo`s and it looses the perspective , I will put some more photo`s on in a new thread in the gallery.

Having used my sj413 for the first time in 4wd with locked free wheeling hubs, i have developed an oil leak on passenger side. I have added a picture of the area leaking showing a gasket damaged and also one of the free wheeling hub. The leaked stopped after going back to 2wd and unlocking the hubs....

Just to say that in all of these photos the terrain looks much flatter than it really is, especially the one labeled whoops, as I got out of the sj I could not stand up without slipping down the slope.

As promised I have put a few photos on, ,I had a couple of moments on the longer trip. one where I stalled it going up a steep rocky climb (should have had it in 4wd and give it loads of gas), it rolled back and up the side of the slope balancing on 3 wheels, and the other one was going down another...

Well it finally got out here. It arrived late last night, a bit late in the holiday but hayho at least its here. i have had a couple of shortish trial runs up the logging trails today , with a longer one planned for tomorrow deeper into the wooded hills (with a neighbor armed with a metal detector, ...

well it looks like its all change again, a day before coming out here to Bulgaria my wife phoned me to say a friend of a friend can pick it up next week and trailer it out to the village. So with luck it will be waiting for me here in the village when we get back from our apartment at the coast.