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air fooled\'s kombi love den....

~air fooled~ · 2004-07-26T05:48:28+00:00

haha, feel like a perv yet?? haha, welcome to my kombi pics! i recently bought three kombis to make one you beaut little bastard to put on the road. two kombis were bought from the damaged vehicles auctions and the half decent one in need of a bit of kombi lovin' was bought off of forum member jonnyb, i cannot speak highly enough of the man myself as i'm sure others can verify. all up these road warriors owe me less then a grand, and hopefully with a little bit of elbow blood (c'mon, how many of us dont bleed!! stuff the "grease"!!) and time and my much missing virtue of patience, i shall have the hand painted white kombi on the road!! WOOOHOO!!! she is going to be named "layla" in worship of the song of the same name by Eric Clapton, hhmmmmm, beautiful song. anyway, layla is goin to be fitted out with a big bed in the back on top of a frame with a single set of seats bolted in front. all the camper interior has been ripped out, including the cow print drawers complimentary of some previous hippy owner. very nice. i have been toying with the idea of mounting a hammock in the pop top opening, diagonally across, to use when the top is up, that will require more thought though... to get some rego layla is goin to get attacked by me grinder to terminate all visible cancer, all the usaul suspects, sill, wheel arches, nose panel, door bla bla bla. thats where the damaged *RUST FREE* kombis step up to the plate and have their swing. these were bought for their rust free replacement panels and engine and box (not the charcoaled engine of course). once rust has been blown away and good panels welded back in, they will then be graced by some more hippy paint strokes to keep the paintjob goin, cos i love it!!! its pretty cracked up but too original to paint over and lose!!! the engine and gearbox gratefully donated by the yellow kombi is a 1.8L fireball of power backed up by the traditional 4 speed clanger. currently it's given me the s#its as it had two barrels filled with oil cos the yellow kombi got rolled. obviously the time on its side led to oil runnin past the pistons into the combusion area, so at the moment the engine wont turn over with the plugs in as its 'hydraulicing', basically unable to compress oil so doin jack all.... the engine and box have already been put in layla, i thought i had drained enough oil whilst i had it out but it appears not. i'm either goin to have to suck it out with some clear tube through the plug holes or mix it with fuel (or another low evaporating temperature liquid) to spurt the remainder of the oil out of the plug holes when i turn it over. what will be left (hopefully!!) will just be mostly fuel and should evaporate soon enough..... anwyay, no more jabberin, here are the pics!!! ps- the damaged kombis will be parted out once i've taken my stash, however i'm open to enquires. i'll let you know if i wont need it, might need it, or will need it, and we can talk from there. layla -> queen of the car ramps.......

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Grock Officially Full-On Dubber

264 posts · joined Apr 2004 · 28 Jul 2004, 11:03 pm

#209475

Have sent U2U

~air fooled~ two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl

1,429 posts · joined Mar 2004 · 1 Feb 2005, 11:23 am

#301524

new update! bus should be runnin soon!! woohoo!! i finally have had time to spend on the kombis again and its sweeeeeeeet!!!

check it out!! http://www.aussieveedubbers.com/forum/viewthread.php?tid=34905