Well, I tightened my head down the other night, did my first 500 miles.
I then drove down to Devon and proceeded to hammer the van around a test track!
All went well until I pulled off the track and the van cut out! Bugger! Highly embaracing! Turns out that in the process of twatting around the track I have dragged all the *** and water from the bottom of the tank and filled my filter up with it. After a couple of unsuccessful attempts to drain it I decide to have a ring around and see if I can get a filter.
Couple of mates help out and a fresh filter is brought from Bristol. Result.
I fitted the filter and decided to get a bit of clear hose and prime the filter. It wouldn't prime, something is blocked. Bugger.
So, starts blowing down the pipe and suddenly blockage clears.
Fit the filter, had to bypass the pre heater as the new filter and the only one I could get doesn't have the pre heater bit.
Anyway van fired almost straight away and has run fine ever since.
Tank will be removed this week and flushed out with another frsh filter and the pre heater replaced.
I've now done 1000 miles on the fresh engine now, it feels really strong, it's just happy at 75mph, 80 is fine too, 75 is nicer and after I have done a few motorway miles, a few back roads and several hard laps of the test track it's returning 30 mpg which Im quite happy with considering the amount of stock I took with me to the show and how I drove it around the track, well impresed.
Why didn't VW, KKK and Bosch do this in the first place!?