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 splitbusaustralia
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| posted on April 14th, 2004 at 02:45 PM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
Looking good Ian!
Snorkel and roof rack with ladder would look good!
Whats are the plans for the interior?
RobK
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| posted on April 14th, 2004 at 05:53 PM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
G'day Rob,
Interior will have permanent double bed set up over engine up to approx center of dbl doors. Underneath bed will be 130lt fuel tank and 82lt water
tank plus a roll out kitchen in line with rearward side door, plus various other storage areas. Behind drivers seat will be a 29lt Engel fridge
sitting on top another cupb.
With the 60lt Bay fuel tank I will still carry a 20lt jerrycan to bring total fuel to 210lt for the trip accross the Desert.
At this stage I don't want to put a rack on top, need to keep weight low as possible, but will build a double spare wheel rack across the back above
the taillights. As for snorkles, l'm putting an air tube up in the vent area.
With current tyres there is 490mm from ground to under sill, will be putting taller tyres on for the trip, about 20mm extra clearance (not loaded).
Just for interest, cost to date less than $300 using bits from paddock (incl paint), not counting time (hobby time doesn't count).
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| posted on April 14th, 2004 at 10:14 PM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
you keep paint in your paddock ??
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| posted on April 14th, 2004 at 10:23 PM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
Coulda worded that slightly different, but I knew what I meant when I wrote it.
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| posted on April 14th, 2004 at 10:38 PM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
hehehe
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| posted on April 14th, 2004 at 11:01 PM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
beautiful work, when is the desert run?
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| posted on April 15th, 2004 at 09:06 PM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
Good stuff Ian, I'm lovin it. I was wondering how things were going....
Steven
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| posted on April 17th, 2004 at 10:38 AM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
Good to see the pics come up !!!!!! Looks fantasic.
P.S
Sorry Rhys you will have to join the line to buy it !!!! (remember Ian I asked first) Then I suppose its a bidding war:vader
Matt
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| posted on April 16th, 2004 at 01:03 AM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
Hi,
Desert trip is mid July to mid August across The Great Victoria Desert west of Coober Pedy to Vokes Hill Corner then south to the Eyre Hwy at Nalabor
Roadhouse, back to Ceduna then north on Googs Track to the railway line then out to the Stuart Hwy. Will be away from home about 3 weeks.
Cheers, Ian. |
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| posted on April 16th, 2004 at 01:05 AM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
wish i could do that mate, but wont have 3 weeks spare nor the car to do it with. Is it a solo thing or you got a group going?
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| posted on April 16th, 2004 at 01:31 AM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
There's 5 Kombies being built for the trip, 2 Bays, 3 Splitties.
4 couples from Volksclub Bendigo plus a bloke who is flying out from Canada just to do the trip. |
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| posted on April 16th, 2004 at 08:05 AM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
The splittys looking great & the trip sounds awesome.Look forward to the updates.:thumb |
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| posted on April 16th, 2004 at 07:34 PM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
u wont to sell me the splitty when ya done?
cheers
rhys
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| posted on April 16th, 2004 at 11:31 PM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
This pic didn't load up on 1st page (there now), taken Easter Friday. |
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| posted on April 17th, 2004 at 08:50 AM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
ian
if you can do this to any splitty i will pay the $$$$ to get it done its come out awesome (plus i want an offroad splitty) i will supply the
splitty!!
cheers
rhys
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| posted on April 17th, 2004 at 07:36 AM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
mate that looks bloody awesome!!!!
cheers
rhys
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| posted on April 17th, 2004 at 02:44 PM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
That splitty is looking AWESOME.Its so cool seeing before & after shots as it helps me realise,I WILL FINALLY GET MINE THERE!! |
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| posted on April 18th, 2004 at 09:36 PM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
Hi all,
Splittychick, stick with it, it's a lot of hard work but worth it when done. In the nine weeks up to Easter I hadn't gone to bed before midnight
except for 3 nights.
Rhys, mate! I'm about KOMBIED OUT!!! Once I get this one Rego'd I have to start the internal fitout. Next project was to be a radical Beetle based
roadster that I've been thinking about for years. Rhett also wants to finish another one of my project ideas that I've had two goes at.
Cheers, Ian. |
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| posted on April 19th, 2004 at 09:42 AM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
Looking great Ian, I look forward to seeing it. I may have to give you a call next time I'm over in Tarnagulla...
Kruizin Kol
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| posted on April 19th, 2004 at 09:57 AM |
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Ian's Desert Splitty
Hey Ian,
Can you tell me how you got the splitty over on its side. I see from the previous pic that you have an axle stand on the jacking point. How did you
secure the roof bit, and how did you get it over without it resting on the bodywork? Any more pics you have would be appreciated.
Great looking kombi by the way, and I think you've been a real inspiration to all those people with $2000 fixer uppers who thought it would be 15
years before they'd see anything like a registerable split!
Cheers
Steve
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| posted on April 20th, 2004 at 11:44 PM |
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G'day Steve,
I sent you a u2u about it. Basicly you throw a 50mm strap (old seat belts are good) over the roof hook it on and PULL!!! Good idea to have an observor
to check as it tips and just before the point of no return I positioned some old tyres so that the rain gutter area would take most of the load. At
the same stage I put some old Kombi front drums in place to meet the dust cover on the front wheel and the axle nut on the back wheel then give a
little push and over it goes. I've used this method many times with very little damge, maybe a small bend in the gutter which is very easy to
straighten. I then use a Beetle jack with a bit of pipe over it long enough to fit into the top chassis rail and jack it up and put axle stands under
the jacking points, this makes it quite stable to work on. To get it back onto its' wheels is pretty much reverse of above. Makes underneath work
easy.
The Beetle jack with various lengths of pipe and various shape blocks of wood makes a very useful tool when trying to straighten out bodywork, you use
it like a Porta Power only much easier and very much cheaper.
Another very useful bit of equipment I have is a discarded invalid aid hydraulic jib I picked up at our local recycle yard for $10, all nice and
chrome and just needed some hydraulic oil and it very handy when lifting motors onto engine stands and I use it when taking beetle motors out and in
(without removing engine lid.
Well this got a bit long winded.
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| posted on April 22nd, 2004 at 06:56 PM |
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Desert Splitty Registered Today 22/4/04!!!!!! YAHHOO!!!!!
Will take some pics tomorrow, was dark when I got home.
Total build time 11.5 weeks from shell in The Graveyard to Rego.
I'm now VERY EXCITED!!!!
Cheers, Ian. |
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| posted on April 22nd, 2004 at 07:02 PM |
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congrats mate! have a :beer
62/60 model bug eye baja bug, (Full Build in Progress)
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| posted on April 22nd, 2004 at 07:11 PM |
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Congratulations Ian, that must be one of the fastest resurrections in history!!! 
Kruizin Kol
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| posted on April 23rd, 2004 at 08:18 AM |
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WELL DONE,that is one inspirational resto job.:bounce |
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| posted on April 23rd, 2004 at 10:22 PM |
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yeah be great to see it getting around now!!!
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| posted on April 23rd, 2004 at 11:25 PM |
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well done. Cant wait for the pics
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| posted on April 26th, 2004 at 08:18 PM |
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BLOODY AWESOME!!!!
it aint just cool its aircool'd
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| posted on April 28th, 2004 at 12:14 AM |
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Why is it that some post don't show or add on. There was one from "Pod" and one from "Kombikid" that aren't there.
Ian. |
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| posted on April 29th, 2004 at 08:40 AM |
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Every time on click on the last post in this thread that says it was posted on the 28th,it takes me to the last thread as the 23rd.So i'm posting
this to see where it takes me in the hope i can read the latest updates.:thumb |
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