VW Doka From Poland- Chapter 2 "That's Also Broken" 

A little bit hairy, clean up to a landing strip...I'm rolling 😂 This gets better and better. Can't wait for #3.

So glad I found this channel! 26 years ago I had a 68 weekender that was in pretty fair shape, a great project! Got married and had a kid, it was sitting so I sold it to a guy who was going to give it a good home. Now that I'm retired I need a project! Us Craigs gotta stick together!

And I thought I was the only one that buys junk from other “reputable” dudes and find out everything is ruined while ruining it even more…. Keep it coming bro!

You tech descriptions of parts and functions gave my wife and I a good laugh. Keep up the humor! 😁

I laughed out loud so many times watching this - you remind me of Jack Black .. looking forward to episode 3 ! 😂

fun to watch every time. keep it up I'll keep watching as long as the mustache stays. own a doka and adventurewagen always something to do Greets from the Netherlands

Thank You for sharing your video, and letting us hang out .

Love your VW videos!

The content we need! Thanks Craig! Keep it up!

Cheers from SanDiego, CA keep up the awesome content brother!

As a former PGH resident considering the purchase of an 87 Vanagon, your videos are both terrifying and empowering. Keep up the great content!

Good stuff brother!! Lookin forward to Chapter 3 😎

Greetings from the uk....I love the exhaust bracket the most...a true piece of art meets repulsiveness repair...❤️❤️❤️❤️😂😂😂

Hi Craig, Love this channel! Your esprit de vive comes across beautifully! Thanks for the links to squeeze bulb and the clear tubing. Once I get my DoKa up and running I’ll take a ride down from Boston. You’re doing a good thing here! Keep Going! G.

Started my week off with a smile and a few laughs. Love your videos and your sense of humor. These vans have so much personality and “character”…after going through my very clean 91 carat and replacing and doing all the preventive maintenance, it runs and looks great. I can really appreciate all the work you are doing. You inspire and delight. Looking forward to chapter 3.

loved each part

This is now my favorite car channel. Your unbridled enthusiasm and positivity really makes the horror of what you find quite enjoyable. Seriously though, as much stuff is completely broken on this, how was it running and drivable at all when you first got it? It's a testament to Polish farmer engineering, really. Thanks for sharing!

please keep doing this, I'm a new vanagon owner and probably will have many of those issues one day hahah thank you for the videos, they're very informative. Keep it up

Hey! Nice vid. Keep going!

I think im on my 4 episode today, could be 6, what a way to spend a cold cloudy Sunday! That turbo diesel makes my 80 air cooled westy look like a piece of cake! thanks for the very entertaining and informative videos!

I have an '88 camper that had the same engine as your DOKA. After messing with it over several years I eventually gave up on it after rounds of problems involving a previously bodged cam, injector pump, the pump enrichment device... turbo.. leaks and then the final straw... overheating. I then swapped in an AHU TDI and while that has also been a pile of work to get it working right, it is so much better to drive with the extra torque and power. One good thing about all the stuff that is wrong with your DOKA is that by the time you have it all sorted out, most of the wearable pieces are going to be brand new...

I've think I've found my people....This feels like watching myself replace a CV transaxle in my Eurovan. Should have taken an hour but required a month and 3 different transaxles (1st one had the right box but contained a very wrong part, the 2nd ended up breaking during install, 3rd was machined to slightly different specs than it was supposed to be so it wouldn't bend/rotate, so I ended up building a function amalgamation from all 3). Videos like this give me hope. 😂

Can’t wait for chapter 3. Hoping the stash makes an appearance. Maybe an engine blow up or two? Who knows! Let’s fucken go

In Craig we trust, love your videos, regards from Germany. a nother Doka driver....

You help so much with diagnosing,,, I'm a visual learner,,, hoping for some more detail in all those repairs, you make things very logical... thanks for inspiring me to take shit apart

Glad to see you experiencing an oil-burning "bus". In Europe people seem to avoid the later PD engines because of the associated ECU, immobiliser etc. but you guys in the US kept the earlier Bosch pumped engine for a few more years than us so I guess you have more parts available than we do. Again, we sometimes see Passat 5 speed diesel trans fitted (upside down) but that leaves you with a vertically transposed H gearshift unless you can find a way to correct for the fact the box is pointing 180 degrees to its original fitment...

Thank you for the video. I’m proud owner of a 84’ diesel high top. It runs really nice but I have an injector pump that leaks pretty good. Would love to see if your friend would be interested in rebuilding another pump. I’m in Tucson, Arizona. Keep ‘em coming man, your videos are inspirational!

I bought a 91 Carat at the end of '21. I looked like the same person did transmission things to our vehicles. Mine also has an air-cooled era tranny and the shaft was cut in half then old shaft welded back to it, and it has been a nightmare to deal with. I drove it back from Clearwater Fl, to the St. Louis area. It was a miracle I got it back. When I started it the day after I got back, one of the plastic coolant tubes broke off at the engine side and dumped coolant all over the driveway. Break lines were hitting the radiator fan. I found 6 different coolant leaks after I fixed the plastic tubes. None of the balance or expansion lines were in the top of the gas tank, it was just open to atmosphere. Both the feed line and return line leaking fuel. The Power steering rack sprayed fluid everywhere so I rebuilt that. Guy I bought it from said it was his daily driver btw. After a year of rebuilding, I started it for the first time last weekend. Hope to drive it tomorrow after some finishing touches. Love your videos, looking forward to the next chapter.

Splice and dice the shift rod, awesome.

The down function on the wiper stalk is just a white clip that needs to be removed on the stalk assembly and you have the down position. Btw nice video's love the build

You guys are so funny and good

There is a hack for you're wiper to have an intermittend position... you need to remove the White u shaped plastic thing by you're wiper stalk. And replace the relay with a relay from a golf 3 than you have an intermittend wiper function...

Fun to see someone else redo the shifter. What a world of difference it makes. Thanks for the entertainment.

Loving this, very interesting seeing the jobs you done on the engine, i will be very interested to see the engine upgrade

About the missing wiper interval: on the inside of the lever is a white clip => remove it and the lever can be moved to the interval position. I don't know whether or not the electronics are prepared for your bus, I only have experience with VW Polo's from the same period. Greetings from the Netherlands.

Ahh I needed this vid. It is the motivation to get me back in the garage and working on mine. How many VW do you currently have in your arsenal? As far as engine swaps what do you recommend for a syncro. My 2.1L is okay but I want more power..the ability to cruise at 70 up hills not slow traffic to the point where an entire family in a caravan flip you off on I76 would be amazing. I realize I may not be in the ideal vehicle for that but…it does seem that unreasonable. Still smile when I drive it. Thank you for the content.

Swapped an AHU into my Vanagon. Finishing up a 1Z now.

It's a little bushy!!!LMAO!

Craig this one was too good. Laughed my ass off and learned a thing. Thanks!

Doing things twice is how I expect most projects to go (sometimes I get lucky and it's once and sometimes I get to do more learning and threes times is the ticket) and replacing a stereo that is down the list of priorities seems like good judgement for future cruising and abusing Craig.

hello the Barefoot Forge nice to watch, I did some restoration, and still not done after almost 7 years this Summer, but I get my VW T3 Turbo Single Cab on the road, and the fuel pump has to be installed correctly, I might be able to get you the e right installment but I have from German into English. so if you are interested then I can't give you the right instruction🇺🇸🙏🏻🇳🇴🇳🇱.Greetings.Hubertus

A feet of bodged Polish engineering

I am very intrigued by your hydraulic strut for the engine flap as my brace on my doka is rather rough.

'That's some crazy'....Lord, have I been there....

This thing is gonna purr like a kitten!

I bought a 1985 Double Cab flatbed Vanagon Transporter that came with the seatbelts in a box. I need to know how to fit in the middle seat and the back middle seat belts...can you do a little video on belt installation?

I absolutely can't wait till chapter 3....and I don't know why...I know nothing about cars!! You make me laugh every time I watch!! From Montgomery al ❤️ 💕

If you ever run across a 1985 Westy in Bronze Beige Metallic - LH8U in the Pittsburgh area, can you let me know? It used to be my dad’s and I’d love to figure out how to get it back for him.

Any new vids on the horizon about the Doka?

At ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UOODJPNb5UM.html you sound sooooo pissed at the previous owners. Lmao.

My gawd.

We do it nice, because we do it twice!

If only these were cheap in the UK... have some engagement...

I've been wondering what you've been doing for the last 2 months. I see there's no end to your problems...and the time you've invested in this Project vehicle. I had to laugh when you begin by acknowledging "it's a piece of crap". I can't believe what you bought yourself into. I give you credit for negotiating down the purchase price from the previous owner. In the end you will have put out his "asking price"?...but have a good, reliable Doka, and not "a piece of crap". Is there any component still working and functional? Seems like everything needs addressed and either replaced or upgraded? I can't believe I'm hearing that you don't know how something (i.e., injection pump) works?

Laugh out loud had to spell it out for proper emphasis.

Why didn’t you make yourself some pins rather than using the bolts? Not worth the time it would have taken?

Your videos are awesome. But could you please... finish your sentences before cutting to the next scene... I drives me insane. lol

The only thing I don't like about your channel is you bounce around to.much