Hi guys,

I'm new here, and have arrived seeking your wisdom and humble advice.

Little background on me and my "vehicle"

I've got a 1980 VW T25 panel van that i'm currently fitting a Impreza 2000 turbo engine & mating it to a VeeDubs box

Now before you all run off screaming blasphemy, gimme a minute

I bought a complete V reg uk turbo, with a dead gearbox, stripped the car, and carefully labelled nearly everything as i undid the wiring loom etc.
Today while working on my van and trying to route the wiring loom around the engine bay of its new home, i stupidly asked my son to remove the ignition barrel from the steering column, explaining how careful he should be.

Obviously, ive not explained the word carefully enough to my son, because he decided to remove the steering lock with the aid of the 2lb lump hammer and appears to have ben the barrel sligtly. He said he thought i wanted the steering column and not the barrel

Now the good news is the black plastic ring that circles the barrel is ok (Where it says i have a wire attached on the pic), but the key will no longer rotate the barrel, but it does move to position one, but then stops and will go no further.

Can i buy another barrel, complete with matching key, swap the lot over and just plug and play?, or as i'm hoping, can i just remove the electronics from the barrel, tape my old key to the remains, and just wire the ignition switch to the vee dubs ignition barrel?

Also what is the purpose of the white block on the underside of the barrel, that has only two wires? (where it says can i remove this)

 

So 57 people read this, and not one of you can shed any light on the situation ?

 

2240 to 815-am

Only the hard core scoobynetters that like to talk about dumpvalves and women ,drink and football are on throughout the night
The rest are sleeping as they have to work which they will be doing today

Anyway I've bumped the thread up for you

 

i will search for a guide i did to remove the tumblers which you can do to match up a new barrel, but on the later barrels im not sure if you can remove the internals

 

Check this thread out bud, like i say, i did this on an earlier barrell, maybe it will be some help, maybe not as you have the later barrell


oh and i aplogise for the pics, my phone is crap LOL



https://www.scoobynet.com/general-te...rel-apart.html

 

Thanks for the reply, i actually found that thread that while trawling search engines, which brought me here, i even actually took the original image to make my drawing

looking at barrels for sale on the web, might looks more like a buyeye barrel set up than the classic one? being a 2000 uk model, did the have a change over period where stuff is like this normally

 

No worries, I've sorted it out now, van is running sweet!
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um2iHCAwzQY

 

Good man, sounds good bud, sort that hiss out at the end LOL :-)

 

Its sorted, it was coming from the vacuum pipe going to the dump valve, two jubilee clips later, all sorted!