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 ang3lsholocaust
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| posted on October 25th, 2008 at 05:36 PM |
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steff this has come up a treat
well done..
im in love with the colour scheme looks fantastic
love the black stripes as well
looks like you had fun when you took it out
 
cheers jess
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| posted on October 25th, 2008 at 05:57 PM |
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Sweet looking Baja, I like the way you speed stripped the glove box to match.
Bummer about Fraser, at least Matt and Glen kept us smiling with the buggy antics ..
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| posted on October 25th, 2008 at 07:09 PM |
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posted by Buggy Brad
Sweet looking Baja, I like the way you speed stripped the glove box to match.
Bummer about Fraser, at least Matt and Glen kept us smiling with the buggy antics ..
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i know!! been looking forward to fraser since i bought it! shit happens but there will be plenty more trips for me to play/get stuck/laughed at and
generaly have a ball at.
steff................
Life with out a v-dub is no life at all!!!!!
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| posted on February 8th, 2009 at 01:57 AM |
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DubCrazy
Did this car come from Newcastle originally?. I swear i have seen it before down here.
I love what you have done with it's resto. It's a beautiful colour
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| posted on February 8th, 2009 at 09:40 AM |
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that looks the best it ever has well done that is one of the best bajas if not the bast in my mind in OZ
show us your gates
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| posted on April 2nd, 2009 at 09:22 PM |
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been a while!!
all in all she's been pretty good, had it pulled into main roads for a full lookie and it had no issues!!! yayaya!!! no broken bits(shockies died but
thats bout it) apart from the intermitent wiring issues so i bit the bullet and went out and brought a Microtech lt10 whichhas just been installed
along with new wiring in the back!!!!! out has gone all the rubbish to be replaced with nice tidy good new wires!
Monday it goes to the Dyno boys to get it all set up and sorted. So the plan is to have it back by the weeked(next) fit the new rear shocks and go
play
If all goes to plan i'll take some more pics for all to enjoy.
Oh and not that i have seen with my own eyes but i have had a report that there is a picture of it in Volksworld this month in the uk, not sure where
but i belive in the readers ride section  I am waiting for my copy to
arrive from the uk to confirm.
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| posted on April 2nd, 2009 at 09:33 PM |
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oh and the new project, fitting the rad up front with a false floor on the passenger side to hide/protect the water pipes so that i can finaly fit the
a/c i have sitting here for it!...
steff,............
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| posted on December 31st, 2009 at 11:50 AM |
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Well its finaly happened .........
the gearbox shit its self 2 days before xmas in a MAJOR way. Had been out playing in the mud as we've had rain here for the first time in months
with no issues at all. no over heating(new rad system) and since i fitted the Microtech and had the rewire its not missed a beat, very happy.
she was washed and parked up as i finished work for the year and was buzy doing a few things around the house.
I get a call from a customer whom i painted a heap of stuff for on the weekend saying no one was at work (panelbeater was ment to be there) so i had
to go in. The roads were a little wet so i hopped into the Baja insted of the bike and trundled of to let them in. Coming back from the workshop i was
aproching a major roundabout with shoppin centers on all sides. Wasn't going at any speed as it was mental with last minute shoppers, so as i came up
the the roundabout i changed down to second and as i let the clutch out there was a massive bang followed by the rear end locking up and attempting to
overtake the front!!!! Never hit anything but the whole place stoped and looked!
managed to get the car up onto the grass but it was locked solid so i had to leave the car there all day(about10am when it happened) untill all the
shoppers had buggered off so i could get the car trailer and remove it.
Not surewhich was worse the box going or the embarresment of it all and the many many calls i had from people i know asking why the bloody cars on the
grass at the shopping centers!
She has been parked up untill today and i've had a quick look and it seems like the diff has fallen apart! i have had another box lined up for a
while as this one has had a whine from the day i brought it and it has gotten worse over time. but u know how it is it just been put off and put off
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so party tonight then recover tomorrow so i can spend the weekend pulling everying out and fitting the new box. I think this is the only time i really
wish i had the aircooled engine in it insted of the subaru as the wiring and rad is going to take a while longer to remove just to get the engine
out
Kinda fitting that the first thing i do in the new year is vw related i think
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| posted on December 31st, 2009 at 12:18 PM |
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Bummer! I had no idea this was petes old baja.... I loved that car when pete had it and i like it even more now! I bet you don't like it much at the
moment?
Mick.
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| posted on December 31st, 2009 at 01:25 PM |
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posted by 1916baja
Bummer! I had no idea this was petes old baja.... I loved that car when pete had it and i like it even more now! I bet you don't like it much at the
moment?
Mick.
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to be honest its not bothered me as the box was always the weakest link as i have pretty much replaced/rebuilt everything else and its down to my
slackness that i've not already done it. so yea its a pain as we have had a heap more rain and the muds getting deep and fun so i am missing out but
thats about the only issue.
steff................
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| posted on January 1st, 2010 at 06:22 PM |
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Better get it ready for that Australia Day 5 Rocks trip.
Smiley
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| posted on January 10th, 2010 at 03:40 PM |
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well i've been a total slack arse and only just today taken the engine out. The gearbox came out no issues but i did find a small but issue. On the
frame horns about 2inchs back from the end is two bloody great cracks!!!! I have taken pictures and will put them on tonight when i finish repairing
it and get the box and engine back in.
Quite glad i found this as i am selling her and i would have hated to have sold ti and given someone else a problem...
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| posted on January 10th, 2010 at 03:41 PM |
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Better get it ready for that Australia Day 5 Rocks trip.
Smiley
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afraid i am goign to have to give that one a mis dan, pull ur finger out and take alice
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| posted on January 10th, 2010 at 05:00 PM |
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posted by smileyman3000
Better get it ready for that Australia Day 5 Rocks trip.
Smiley
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afraid i am goign to have to give that one a mis dan, pull ur finger out and take alice
steff...........
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You had better paint it then!!
Smiley
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| posted on April 7th, 2010 at 05:45 PM |
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Great to see my old car is still working.. I've been watching this thread for a while now, but I was the silly bugger who put the subaru motor in it
and did the original conversion to a baja. Light green looks a lot better than dark green and it sounds like the cooling issues have been sorted
(finally). What a nightmare that was.. My original plan was to run a radiator at the front (I had the heater tubes that run up the sides of the body
cleared of all the pipework) but figured it would get too hot inside, so ended up putting in the VW radiator in the back. Shame about the gearbox, but
I didn't do anything to it other than paint it red and polish the ribs, so as is the norm with these things.. the weakest link eventually breaks!
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| posted on April 7th, 2010 at 09:20 PM |
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Did you get that steering box in and get everything going good again Steff?
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