{"id":348,"date":"2011-10-04T00:17:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T06:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/?p=348"},"modified":"2011-10-04T00:17:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T06:17:19","slug":"our-new-camping-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/our-new-camping-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"Our New Camping Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-349\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=349\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-349\" title=\"IMG_6479\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_6479-425x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_6479-425x318.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_6479-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_6479-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a>Well a couple weeks back we picked us up a 1976 Volkswagen Westfalia. We are pretty excited about our new toy. We have a lot of work a head of us but we are ready for it.<\/p>\n<p>When we got it, it didn&#8217;t run, but with a little work and a lot of love it is now running. I did a little trouble shooting ad figured it wasn&#8217;t getting any gas. So I got under the bus and pulled off the fuel filter. I found that the filter was solid full of gas gunk and the fuel line as well. I pulled the line from the tank and fuel came draining out. I drained about 11 gallons of varnished old gas. Lucky for me, the gas gunk stopped at the filter and not through the rest of the lines, pump and engine. I did replace the lines and installed a new filter.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-350\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=350\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-350\" title=\"IMG_6481\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_6481-425x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also had to set the points and figure out the firing order. Also the previous owner installed a new battery cables backwards which had fried some of the electrical lines so I replaced them as well. After a little starter fluid, the engine turned over and started up. It was nice to get it up and running.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to try to keep everyone updated on the progress of our Westy as we clean it up and get it up camping. I would love to hear any suggestions or stories about any of your VW buses. Keep riding.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-351\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=351\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-351\" title=\"IMG_6484\" src=\"http:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_6484-425x318.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_6484-425x318.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_6484-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_6484-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well a couple weeks back we picked us up a 1976 Volkswagen Westfalia. We are pretty excited about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,106,105,108,107],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bus","tag-volkswagen","tag-vw","tag-westfalia","tag-westy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openairlife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}