b - Items of equipment     (see page 19 for spare parts)

 

Emergency windscreen

 

Tow rope

 

Foot pump with pressure indicator or separate pressure

gauge, battery-driven compressor if necessary

 

Tyre repair outfit for tubeless tyres

 

Tubes for tyres, repair outfit for tubes talc

 

Valve inserts, dust caps with nipples - for removing the

valve inserts

 

Fuel funnel with hair sieve

 

Engine oil quantity according to length of journey vis-

cosity according to expected temperatures).

 

Journey recorder

 

2 rolls of insulation tape, I roll of adhesive tape, binding wire

 

Liquid sealing compound, kneadable sealing compound, adhesive

 

1 tin of contact spray

 

Automotive electrical cable

 

Hard wood blocks, approx. 20 x 20 x 5 cm and approx.

15 x 8 x 5 cm e.g. for putting under vehicle jack

 

1 additional vehicle jack, e.g. column-type jack from the

VW LT 35 or air bag 1)

 

1 set of cranked ring/open-ended wrenches 5....27 mm

 

1 hammer, approx. 900 g/hatchet

 

2 tyre levers

 

4 Screwdrivers (various sizes)

 

Lamp for static Ignition timing adjustment (test lamp)

 

Plug spanner

 

Triangular File, approx. 150 mm long

 

Combination, motor-pump and pointed pliers

 

8 mm Allen key, 17 mm Allen key for gearbox filler and

drain plugs or cranked 17 mm bolt

 

Feeler gauges 0.1, 0.2 and 0.4 mm

 

Items of equipment not required for the vehicle itself

can be obtained from companies dealing in expedition equip-

ment, e.g. Därr's Expeditions-Service Hauptstraƒe 26,

D-8011 Heimstätten.

 

1)   The "air bag" is a sack made of strong rubber which is laid empty under the vehicle and then Inflated using a pump or the vehicle exhaust, depending on design, thereby raising the vehicle.