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 kroozzn63
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how much weight can a kombi carry?
i drove all day with about 800 kilos of wood furniture in the back from smithfield to botany then down to caringbah
i was abit concerned about i my bay was stressing but she seemed ok all day , has anyone carried major stuff in their kombis "i suppose thats wat
they were designed for"
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 05:48 AM |
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I've had just over a tonne of bushrock in mine.
2nd gear up hill & certainly cleared any cobwebs from the 1600.
Well my friends are gone & my hair is grey, I ache in the places where I used to play.
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 09:14 AM |
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They'll take heaps!!! At least a tonne....
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KruizinKombi
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 09:18 AM |
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Just to prove it wasn't a fluke, this one is 5' lengths of hardwood....
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 10:12 AM |
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Well a Kombi is designed to carry 9 people and some luggage so.....
9 x 100kg = 900kg plus some luggage say 100kg..... that's 1 tonne
Also on the compliance plate of my 77 it says GVM of 2200kg. Unladen the 77 is about 1200kg so that's a 1 tonne payload.
[size=-2]note. The compliance plate says 2245kg or something, can't remember exactly but it was around 2200kg.....[/size]
[Edited on 20-8-2004 by MikeM]
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 10:46 AM |
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I remember reading about the history of the Bus. Sometime during the sixties (splitties!) the official load capacity was increased from 750kg to
1000kg. This wasn't from any official source though.
Those are pretty crazy pics there KruizinKol! That's a lotta wood.
Cheers, aurel
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 10:59 AM |
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depends whether you still wanna move it :thumb
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 11:05 AM |
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or how quickly you want to move it....
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 11:17 AM |
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how much weight can you carry on a golf?
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 12:46 PM |
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me and my dad went to sydey olympics to watch the sailing on the harbour. towed the 1300 kg trailer sailer down the new england highway from brisbane
in his 2l 74 kombi. averaged about 80km/h.
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 03:04 PM |
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Andy, our '77 bus states 2250 GVM on the compliance plate.
On our round Oz trip we weighed just over that for the whole trip.
We even towed a stranded falcon wagon fully loaded along part of the Gib River Rd (north WA).
No problem (well not many) 
Richard
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 05:35 PM |
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Gee Col, that balsa wood looks REAL heavy......:P
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 08:09 PM |
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I've had 2 pallets of pavers in one. Couldnt drive it though, couldnt turn the steering wheel. When hellbug was closing we had one filled to the roof
with engine bits/heads/cases to take down the road to recyclers. It was on the bump stops, didnt stop real well.
I have towed with a 3 tonne plus rolling mass. That was with a turbo, and that didnt last. It would be OK with a good engine though. But not legal.
Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 08:47 PM |
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if i lower it will it still be able to carry the same if cbb lower it properly and i get some good shocks? lowering next week {4"}
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| posted on August 20th, 2004 at 09:07 PM |
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picking up my 59 split from taree in the next few days , truckie lives there & for $200 will bring it up on back load , i will trailer 59 the rest
of the way . after reading these stories 74 2ltr should be fine has good motor pro service every 3 mths since i aquired it 8 yrs now (original log
book amazing serviced in madagascar nigeria so on)
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| posted on August 21st, 2004 at 01:37 PM |
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if that means putting heavier torsion bars in then it will be OK. Otherwise I think you will be bottoming out with heavy loads.
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if i lower it will it still be able to carry the same if cbb lower it properly and i get some good shocks? lowering next week {4"}
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Chris.... kombi pilot, oval dreamer... finisher #26971 2005 city to surf
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