RobKnn[ Edited on 28-7-2005 by splitbusaustralia ]

looks good mate.. smooth..

Yeah!!!!

I want one (even after seeing all the work that has to go into it!!!)

How does the Type 4 donk go Rob? He's looking very nice.

Cheers

Steve

Yeh how much $$$$$$ Rob, haha

schmick, loving the colour, the brms go very nicely, i want a set of brm 4's for my car

Man I love that thing!

That is smooth as very kool

Marc

looking good ,must feel even better when driving along and having all the people looking at you

Very nice Rob!!

But i am with Matara - how is the Type 4??

Happy with the torque??

Was it easy to get tuned???

Barry

Well done Rob, excellent result. You must be proud and relieved..

Looking sweet Rob, any more pics???

G'day Rob,
Well done mate!!! it looks awsome, so I guess now it's back to Barney, can't wait to see him looking as good as Leo!!!
Cheers, Ian.

Nice work Rob

I will keep an eye out for you in Pako (GJs to be precise)

Beautiful...What an acheivement!

great work Rob

He goes OK. I only got him registered yesterday morning – had to take a day off work – its very difficult to get inspection appointments at Geelong and I had to see the ‘special’ dude who deals with cars not recently registered.

Re-registration of a long unregistered vehicle is always a tense event in Victoria – while I had all the required paper work, bill-of-sale, RWC and engineers report etc they get really iffy if they can’t find a previous registration record for the vehicle on their computer database… which is an average outlook given they haven’t got all the older archived records onto their computer database yet!

Fortunately I had what I think was leo’s old rego no. (on an old RACV membership tag attached to his keys) and this turned up a ‘record not yet updated from archives’ flag and they accepted that…….

I put the plates on him and then took him for a drive. Dragged off some guy in hot EH at a set of lights (first and last time but ya gotta do it once) and took him up the Geelong road. He does hold a good cruising speed (which was always the aim) - wound him off the clock (remembering that’s only 70+ mph indicated on a bus speedo) and held him there for a few kms. Pleasant change from 55mph in a stock early splitbus!

Still got a few things to sort out….couldn’t really test drive him extensively in his unregistered state.

Got some slight front tyre rubbing underneath on extreme locks. Have to sort that out………………

Also coupla rubs on big holes/dips – I haven’t got front bump stop rubbers on him at the moment (repros are like $120 to buy dammit) but it looks like the ½ inch extra buffer they provide will stop this….

Oil temps only getting to about 150 (F) after a fairly long hard run and are far too cold around town, barely getting off the peg. Will have to fit a thermostat in the lines to the external cooler (more $$$ - I become very budget conscious after paying all the inspection and rego costs in one hit).

There’s a rattle in the passengers cab door – I hate rattles!

Still have to rust repair gates and paint. I’ll paint the oval panels in the gates the same charcoal grey as the bumpers. I’m also going to get little ‘tare’ and ‘gross’ signage done low on the rocker forward of the rear wheel at some stage.

Also have to get the tunes happening!

wow nice ride man, wuv the colour..

As mentioned above by many - fantastic work! I know your pain/pleasure of a full resto, so it must be a nice feeling to finally drive it!

Can't wait to see it with the gates on - that will really make a huge difference.

:thumb

Alan

Super nice ! Like Alan, I cant wait to see it with the gates on.

You might like to post a before and after photo comparison for those who havent read your fantastic resto threads about Leo (those of you that havent, have a search on Leo - some fantastic examples of rust repair and general body work).

The grin must be ear to ear.....

saw you cruiisng down pako last week rob it looks very sweet great colour too brms are tops would love to have a chat with you some time cheers chris

At 9:00 am on Fridays RobK can be found in GJs on Pako
eating fruit toast, inhaling a large caramel latte and reading
the papers! Look for the guy with the oldest pair of
jeans on in the place.....

Sorry about the pics disappearing - my ISP bandwidth for the month has blown up (it'd take a bit of downloading
to do that too). They won't be back until the 1st of
August.

RobK

:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry:cry i wanna see the pics can u email me them rob? kombikid@tpg.com.au
i wanna see it!!
cheers
rhys

My broadband mob offer 20 meg so I've parked em there
so they come up...(all my other pics will still be MIA until
Aug 1st unfortunately!)

RobK

absolutely NICE

why don't you just ask for more bandwidth :>

there ya go :>

Ah,the bandwidth gods have answered my prayers! If only they read their email!

Thanks Brad!

looks bloody awesome rob you are definately takin me for a cruise in this!!! love it mate please dont sell it until i can afford it please
know onto the barney
cheers
rhys

you are a seriously dedicated man!

can we gave a before and after shot?
I know what he used to look like, but side by side; what a serious mission you have undertaken.

Power to ya.