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now you have driven it get of your ass and finish it and stop proving my loom works and start proving your welder works .....
Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx Australiai bet that was a shock !!!!!!!!!!!!😏 needs a hair dryer or two
are the thousands n thousands of splits really rare???
Well after a recent disaster with my planned ride to fraser for the Manx Club run next week , i have had to pull my finger out out get tehis bus happening to get me there too , so if you happeneed to be looking for some thing to do one night this week just pop down the Custom Vee Dub and i'll be sure to be there and will quickly hand you some parts to attach in my all out effort to get the beast back on the road.
Thanks Andrew
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SO ... is it done yet ????
I will bet you one of the 5 cartons of beer that you owe me that IT WILL NOT MAKE FRASER ...... oh thats right you don't drink anymore, or was that didn't and now do .. hell I can't keep up with it all......
So back to the question at hand .. IS IT DONE YET ???
As I am driving my 80 Series and it is a Toyota I guess I should ask the most obvious thing ...
Do you need a hand ? If so ring me ..... ❗
Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx AustraliaI'll take you up on that bet and double or nothing .
It has to make it or i'mm a walking , although i never said it would be pretty
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OZ Towdster wrote:I'll take you up on that bet and double or nothing .
It has to make it or i'mm a walking , although i never said it would be pretty
mmm now that is very tempting but since I will no doubt end up helping you to make sure it makes it I would be stupid to bet anymore than what I have. Although if I did then I could give you some special help as I think you could do without 10 cartons of beer and the walking would do you good.
The biggest problem I have is that I really do want to see more of this Kombi under your control on the sand...
I mean last time was so much fun..
Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx AustraliaHey come to think of it, I am up at this great time of the day working on what I need done before Fraser, why are there more ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz coming from your mouth than &^%$%&^$ *&%*% which should be flowing if you were working hard on the Kombi ????
Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx AustraliaBuggy Brad wrote:OZ Towdster wrote:I'll take you up on that bet and double or nothing .
It has to make it or i'mm a walking , although i never said it would be pretty
mmm now that is very tempting but since I will no doubt end up helping you to make sure it makes it I would be stupid to bet anymore than what I have. Although if I did then I could give you some special help as I think you could do without 10 cartons of beer and the walking would do you good.
The biggest problem I have is that I really do want to see more of this Kombi under your control on the sand...
I mean last time was so much fun..
Still got me stuffed Andrew how you got stuck like that on the beach???? did you forget to let some air out or what???
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First time in the Bus on sand mate and only had the tyres down to 12pound at that point for memory + bloody soft spot and slightly up hill from a dead stop take off.
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OZ Towdster wrote:First time in the Bus on sand mate and only had the tyres down to 12pound at that point for memory + bloody soft spot and slightly up hill from a dead stop take off.
blah blah blah ... GET BACK TO WORK !!!!!
Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx AustraliaSo will it make it's maiden Suby powered voyage???
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Yep
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Well rumour has it that a large Orange and White Baja Bus was seen going across the Gateway at about 11.30pm tonight.... looks like I lost a Carton of Beer....
Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx AustraliaNot quite 11.30 mate , i have had a some what difficult night after you left and have fun bleeding the water systema nd have only just got home not 3 minutes ago .
Again a BIG thank you to you Brad for comming out tonight and helping get the Bus back on the road ,Thanks mate .
PS i hope i have given you the wiring bible back as i can't find it and i t flashed code 32 on the way home
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Oi you havent got time to be on here gas bagging, hurry up and get in here so the front bar can be finished!!!!!
pete -
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OZ Towdster wrote:PS i hope i have given you the wiring bible back as i can't find it and i t flashed code 32 on the way home
Nope you still have the SVX one I printed out for you.
As for 32 - O2 sensor, just ignore it you will be running rich flogging it on the beach anyway.
From all reports bus is now running well and made it up the cost and back on a test drive ... Beach time in under 24 hrs, expect to see lots of bigged pics :>
Brad
Why copy when you can own an original ?
Meyers Manx Australiaso did it make it through the weekend without breaking or what?? Have heard very little about the weekend so far from anyone.....
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Well all after a few months of driving the Beast around and sorting a few problems etc and creating some new ones ie the Box is buggered in first due to a shitfull rebuild by others I am back into the body work and finishing mounts etc for it to go to Al's Das Restohaus .
Have got the front skin and all fresh air ducts removed at present and am just this morning being assembling my subaru climate control heater / ac so i can position it behind the dash and mount it etc so as to be able to with stand some hard jolts offroad .
Due to the size of the heater/ac i have had to remove all the standard fresh air ducts except for the drivers side of the intake area behind the outer grill and am now in the process of build a custom duct from behind the inlet that not only feeds the air to the unit well but also as the original did , drains off any water comming through the front vent when driving in rain etc .
As with other areas of the body as seen earlier in the this thread the PO has been more than handy with the bog trowl around the front pillars and wheel arches so they too are getting some fresh metal welded in .
Will post some pics soon of the progress but best get back to it .
Andrew
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Hi folks , Just another quick update
Have spent today cutting out the inner and outer passengers front guards , and as with the rest of this bus , found some more bloody rust hidden in the B pillar behind where the inner and outer guards form a box .
So even though it'll never be seen by anyone but me , i did some nice flush fit fully welded repairs and as of tonight all areas of where the new guards fit are soaking in WD40 to prevent any surface rust and are as they should be nice and straight and rust free.
Again forgot to take my Camera but should get some photo's tomorrow arvo
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Good to see you're making some progress mate - I'm sure you can now appreciate the significant amount of time it takes to do repairs properly!
AL
Well now i'mm back in Brissy it's probaley about time i pulled my finger out and finished this thing
So sat down yesterday arvo and made a list of what needs to still be done
Well!!!!!!!
Baja Bus To Do List
1 : Finish cutting out rust from middle seat forward
2: Cut out tack welds on shifter tube outertube and vacume pipe so as to be able to remove rusty front crossmember
3: Source a T25 or T3 floor mounted handbrake assembly
4: Mount floor mounted handbrake assembly
5: Reroute passengers side handbrake cable tube to suite floor handbrake
6:Make new handbrake cables
7:Fab and fit new front crossmember
8: Adjust angle of brake booster and fab new brake push rod
9:Weld in tow hook crush tubes to chassis extensions
10 : Rework damaged front bulllbar/ radiator support and finish of including driving light mounts etc
11: Fabricate a rear tow bar with class 4 type hitch and mount factory bumper over it with exhaust tip cut outs
12:Mount aircon unit behind dash including crash intrusion bars as support work
13:Fab a air intake systemfor the ac to be fed from the drivers side vent of the front stock grill
14:Fab all ac duct work +mount stereo head unit and ac controller
15: Mount ac condenser under car
16 : Plumb up ac head unit to under car including shrouding of water lines
17:Fabricate lower dash unit so as to hide ac unit
18:Mount new front seats
19:Fab new fuel tank mounts
20:Fabricate fuel tank fire wall
21:Remove fuel tank and sink in sender unit and repair leak
22:Mount new back seat
23 :Fit new seat belt attachment points to suit new seat position
24:Remove motor and gearbox
25:Finish of any body sheetmetal
26: Remove all external existing paint and etch prime
27:Send body to Das resto haus for paint job
28:Mount ac unit
29:Mount new dash cluster
30: Wire up all
31:Send to trimmers
32:Fit all glass
33:Refit motor and recoed gearbox
34 :Final assembly and tit bits etc
Lets just say i may be a little busy for the next few months
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Couple of weekends and you'll be right....... 😂
How's that Tow'd going?
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11CAB wrote:Couple of weekends and you'll be right....... 😂
How's that Tow'd going?
Yeah, there's probably a far longer list for the Tow'd somewhere.
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Busy for sure. You'll get there Andrew, i'm sure i will see this thing at Valla this yr ay?
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Hopefully
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Well i have been busy back on the bus again this week and as noted in the list above the first item to address was finish removing the rust from the front half of the bus body.
Well some may say i should of probabley started with a better shell , but hey i didn't and even if i had i dought it would be much different in 12 months anyway
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Yes i still have it yes we are still trying to get it ready for paint .
So what have i been doing for the last 12 months you ask , when it should of been finished by now , well lets just say that the marriage of a subaru ac unit and a bay window kombi is not as straight foward as you may think .
To start with i mounted the ac unit in a tube and shs frame inside the front of the bus which was made easier by way of the front nose panel being already removed due to be full of bog and rust
Then spent weeks making a custom air intake system that like the original bus fresh air system , it drops any incomming rain / water of before the fresh air gets to the ac
Now with that all in the way of the stock e brake that had to be moved to the floor in the walkthrough , so a T3 unit was soarced from a wreck at a mates place and fitted along with 2 new crossmembers under the floor to support the lever when in tension
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With that starting to get fairly well sorted it was time to think about somewhere comfy to sit , so with a troll of the local wrecking yards a set of Honda Integra front seat where chosen and a Mitsibishi L300 Delica rear seat .
Under the rear seat is to become a nice storage area for storing a few spares and tools etc plus the ends of the front face of the frame will be receiving some 6 x 9 speakers and nice plywood boxs behind so as to protect the speakers from the storage area and give the speakers that bit more omph
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Also around this time i replaced the front cargo floor crossmember as it was like much of the bus , RUSTY , plus being a baja bus the jacking points are removed which made for some questionable outer strength in this area , so to replace the stock item i used some 50 x 50 x 3 shs which runs full width of the bus from inner sill to inner sill .
Once fitted i drilled out the holes through said shs and pushed the untacked shifter tube back through the crossmember and have since then fited a new booster vacume tube , and throttle cable tube from front to rear .
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