Well on friday I got me a new (to me) transporter.

Good price, good body and great mechanicals.

Already given it a clean up and fixed a few minor things. Engine needed a breather pipe and and fan belt adjust and she's running like a clock. Gotta love a volkswagen
RWC tomorrow, and she'll be put to work.

You have to love the fact that the 'muller wbx' sticker held in such high regard they blended the respray around it. lol

cool, now it just needs a lift kit ..

hey matt that needs to be slammed for sure

Heh Mat

Thats more like it. The other tow vehical just did not seem right.

Thanks guys, feels good to be in a transporter again

Nice van. Most comfortable of the later models. Just don't over tighten the fan belt. Water pumps used to chew out easily when I had mine.

I loved the fact a Muller sold it originally, and a Muller helped fix it all these years later (well at least the wipers needed fixing!).....a lot of history in that car, right down to Mr Muller knowing the factory workers who assembled it as well as their wives! hahaha

Up or down....well while the bank account is empty she'll have to stay right where she is.......definately down if anywhere but, these dont go offroad like a bay, too heavy in the front.

Das I think Fritz the Austrian put in the windows

The 'repair' Mr Muller did was actually allowing the intermittant wipers to be used for the first time in 341 000+km. The commercials have all the wiring and relays hooked up. One of Fritz's buddys actually fit a plastic stopper into the wiper switch to render it inoperable....go figure.

Kronk is a walking dak dak time capsule......"oh year" he said "I remember delivering that one, it was a tuesday....and this service you see dad wrote the invoice and stamped the service record......and here is where keg f'd up the mileage in the book"

Definately minimum tension on the water pump/fan belt, thanks.

RWC today knocked me on a few minor's, so ordered parts and should be regoed Wed.

The panel has cleaned up a treat already, and has twice the torque the tempory tow vehicle had (2.0 l riceburner), and she sits on the road really well.

I think it's called Farvenugen......didn't realise I had missed that drug for the last ten years or so.

air or water?

next time you talk to Mr Muller, ask him about the picture with the picnic bar.

Looks good Matt. Lower it and some nice 16's will look the goods.

WHERE YOU GOING BRENNDEN
20S OR NOTHIN

young whipper snappers......

20's aint cheap tyre wise to use on a tow vehicle or for everyday use. Stuff that LOL

Speciall for this hillbilly

Yeeee haaaaggh!!
Pass me some whiskey and put some bull horns on that sucker!

Good to see you in a volksie Matt.

DON'T WORRY MATT EVEN IF YOU PUT 20'S ON
YOU CAN STILL LEAVE IT IN PRIMER FOR THAT HILLBILLY LOOK

And rat Col for some bits that he ain't using LOL

no haltech efi 914 powered duel cab, but i guess it will do for now.

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Originally posted by kombibob no haltech efi 914 powered duel cab, but i guess it will do for now.

The locals enjoy a bit of waterskiing while camping on the banks of the dam, cool spot.

On the way home spotted this window art with a type two close up as one of the glass panels advertising a shopping center in Childers. Guess you have to look hard in this image.

The following weekend, a 1300km round trip to Nambucca with 3 nights camping where we pleased was great. The 2.1 always returned 12l / 100km, I dont drive too slow so am happy with that, and hiway cruising anydak dak loves

Good to hear you are enjoying life behind the wheel Matt.
That is reasonable fuel consumption for a van.
Gotta love the camping!!
I have so much room in the single cab we just take watever we feel like when camping...

Here's the panel being put to work.

About to leave home bound for Portland. We drove for 32 hours with only occasional pitstops, sleeping underway. The trip home was much more lesurely with two 5 hour stops, but still about 30 hours of traveling.

A 4500 km round trip and used consistantly 15 l/100 km.

You Queenslanders are crazy!

I hope thats a good crazy, cos we all know it helps

Well the bus took us to Portland and back, a trip of about 4650km in total. In true volkswagen fashion, the panel got us home, but not without a few little issues enroute.
At our first fuel stop, Goondiwindi, our clutch slave cylinder gave its first signs of protest. With the increased heat around the transmission, we were long haul towing, the hydrolic clutch began to injest air and was as lazy as, constantly needing to double shuffle, and any stops were interesting to say the least, but hell, once in fifth on the hiway, you hardly change gears...right?

Well we made it down to Portland in time for the Friday morning dune session, what a blast that was, and without the trailer on for the 40km trip to the dunes, the bus was much more driveable, heaps more power too for power slides on the dirt road into the dunes just to get us in the mood. The Vintage crew had generously helped out with bringing some clutch spares, so we felt much more comfortable with spares on board for the trip home. We could change the leaking cylinder whenever we wanted to now...

On Sunday arfternoon after a great weekend of racing we headed home this time the coast road via Melb and Sydney, about 200km further than the inland route, but cooler with much better roads ( my pick for next time).

First pic was our 2nd night stop after visiting Daimo, at Mullaway Beach north of Woolgoolga. Nice cooked brekky on a free barby on the beach. We didn't worry about the clutch until dropping off Crew chief Ritchie in Brissy. Only took an hour or so, happy now with a clutch that works :-) .

An hour away from home, I had the coolant level warning lamp start flashing......bummer. The bus hadn't used an ounce of water or oil the whole way.....a top up after a cupper to boil up some water to add to the engine, and made it home, all good except for the puddle of coolant that now appears under the engine....big bummer.

These engines have been known to have their heads crack, head studs corode away until they break etc etc. With manifold off for visual inspection and you guessed it, a big crack oozing coolant in front of my eyes. Well you got to be lucky sometimes. Head off in car, NO corrision what so ever, studs look like new, even the cracked head shows no corrision.

So next week find a replacement head, some new seals and coolant and put it all back together again....you gotta love a volksie

On the second pic here you can even see the coolant coming from the crack to the left of the two top center headstud nut bosses.

Engine all repaired and going well again but while the bus was getting the head repair done, I figured the few spots of rust needed a bit of attention, so repaired some some bits at the rear bumper and seams, also a previous repair on the wheel arch where some bog was lifting.