I Bought a Doka! From Poland! VW Vanagon Truck Build 

Chaotically funny video, love the polish spec repairs 🤣🤣 loving the videos all the best from the UK 🇬🇧

"Sometimes you need to wiggle the shaft a little bit to see how much play " Winner of the double e'ntrant award of the year.

Very entertaining. Man, the effort they put into patching this thing with literal garbage is just astounding. It's almost a work of modern art. Love these videos. Thanks, and keep Forging ahead on this beauty.

Craig watching you work on pigs like this makes me so happy dude. Please keep making these videos. I learn so much from them and I appreciate it immensely.

You know, I think I need one of these. This would make a great work truck! ☺

I`m enjoying your videos, so I signed up . I had 3 bugs and a rail buggy , I Love VWs ! Your channel helps fill that void . Thank You for sharing your video, and letting us hang out .

I got to say pretty cool I've never seen one like that. That would be great for a cabover camper oh, of course with the hole in the floor for the motor. No problem there. I actually just watched your 600-mile video the other day pretty cool actually can't believe they let you work on that thing in a campground??? Anyhow have more fun, mustie1 would love it.

Love it!!! Keep this series going!!!!

Happiness on joining the DoKa club! The extra wire in the rear light cluster seems to be for the European-style fog light ~ you didn't get fog lights on those, so people inserted and wired the fog light bulb to the brake light and made a double brake light out of it. Would usually be the same bulb as reverse. L-body Mk1 Golfs also had that "feature". Enjoy the DoKa!

great video I bought one just like it last week. 1.6 L turbo diesel, but with 5 gears. Mine also smokes very strongly, as soon as the engine is warm it stops again. The 2nd gear falls out also like times...Hope there will be a small video series on the Doka. My subscription remains there for now. Greetings from good old germany

Nice. Thanks for uploading

just stumbled across your channel and have to say I love the way you work on / chat about the bits of the vans lol Currently restoring my own van and seeing the state some of the ones you get running gives me hope for success! got yourself a sub here! look forward to lots more vanagon stuff!

keep these series coming! i love it

Just found your channel. Keep it up.

Dude killer ass video thank you so much!! Nice brick hauler. Completely jealous!

What fun. Mine is not different - European origin somewhere, but a '91 Syncro Doka with an AFN Turbo Diesel. All the wacky wiring challenges of course.

Whether you like it or not, this is the content we all want.

Those "jam rolls" are expedient, if nothing else. They got good practice against the krauts in WW2.

Looking good! Reminds me a bit of my own doka i bought in 2017, similar color, similar destruction :) but now it looks a bit better, higher, and with a nato canopy... on the plus side - it looks like you have an original engine, thats a plus :)

Have a T3 in Australia we never got Westys but got Trakka campervans from the Australian distributors. but we still get rust here. and our spiders are huge! Great videos BTW!

Always Crack me up!! From Montgomery al 🙏 ❤️

Great vid :) maybe fuel pump needs a bit of tinkering to get the injector quantities correct :) Have a great Christmas!

The filter looks like something you would find on a Diesel power vehicle. It’s a hydro disseminator.

This is epic! Yinz got a VW club out there in the burgh?

Hey brother l love the channel and definitely a subscriber, I had a 1987 Vanagon that blew the head gasket at 147,000 miles and found out many years later that these vehicles were meant to swap engines every so many hundred thousand kilometers and it was as easy as one could drive in the morning and they swap out and install a rebuilt engine by the afternoon and they run like forever because they are meant to change…. so every time the engine gets replaced all the accessories get inspected and you basically get a rebuilt vehicle. How cool. I Would love to learn if you know any history of their regularly scheduled maintenance record, and any suggestions for folks who like to better preserve and maintain the vehicles they have now🤙🏾

I've been looking for a crimp tool and connecters to replace in my 87", REALY apreciate what you use

It is very used, I like it ❤😂

The double cab license plate lenses and bulb holders are the same as a van but the black housing is truck specific, you may need to look at Brickwerks in the UK for some of the JX parts and some of the doka specific parts, they do have the proper door check strap for the rear door.

i hate it when the shaft is firm but you find slop in the ball

Pull the cold start knob I also have a Poland doka! 1.6 jx turbo diesel

Well that might explain a little bit while you having a rough time starting it and a few other mechanical issues LOL 😂

If you want an easy’r startup, hook up the diesel choke. The JX dieselpumps have one.

Doka is the best, I’ve one with a 2.5lt Isuzu diesel engine. Legalised tractor runabout 🙃

Awesome

For a European t3 / Vanagon its not very rusty, i am in the uk and they can be quite rusty, i have similar issues on my diesel, i am learning from you ! i hope to see more on this one.

Did you replace the burnplates before putting the injectors in, and check the pump timing

Hey did you get this from south Jersey? I was looking at it on marketplace to replace my totaled 85 7 seater lol it definitely looks worse than I thought!

You need to let the glowplugs work before cranking

Did you "time the pump"?

I have got a Audi variant 80 1965 manufactured.a you in a position to get for me few spares

I’ll take the spider

20:06 thast intake no loose of boost there and also change the engine for AHU AFN or 1Z because this engine is total garbidge or order South Africa Bellhousing and put in 2.5TDI from audi 100 :)

Why would you buy that? haha Especially from Poland.

I can't believe you went for a Doka in "HORRIBLE" condition. Even if one buys a Doka in "good" condition, there will still be enough to keep one (you) with your hands dirty for life, doing repairs and routine maintenance. I bought my VW thinking it was in good condition...but have found out that it needed so much work and upgrading...and still not sure it's reliable.