OK a bit of a much needed update here.

Fitted a 110amp leisure battery behind the drivers seat. All fused and connected up to a Relay. Made a wooden box for it to sit in and covered the outside of it with carpet. A couple of brackets were made and the box was screwed into place.

Did the forest festival again this year where I sold a few of my glass paintings.

This was followed by three festivals over the coming month.

Drove down to Cheltenham, a trip of about 5-6 hours this is when I found the gears becoming stiff. The next day drove into Somerset and again the gears where pretty stiff.

The local garage checked the gearbox oil level and this was fine. Had a couple of days near Glastonbury then drove to Dorset. The bus ran OK on this part of the journey and even got up zig zag hill in 2nd gear. The journey home was pretty bad as traffic jams and hot weather caused the bus to again develop a sticky gearbox. The drive back up the M1 in the rain wasn't much fun.

Have had the bus over to the diesel doctors where we changed the gearbox oil with a semi synthetic and added some friction fighter.

A part in the linkage (see photo) was also a bit worn and a small rubber ball was replaced with a new one ordered from VW.

Hope to do a engine flush/oil/filter change next month and also add some friction fighter to the engine.