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 splitbusaustralia
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 02:13 PM |
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Leo's back on the road!
RobKnn[ Edited on 28-7-2005 by splitbusaustralia ]
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 02:16 PM |
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looks good mate.. smooth..
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 02:21 PM |
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Yeah!!!!
I want one (even after seeing all the work that has to go into it!!!)
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 02:22 PM |
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How does the Type 4 donk go Rob? He's looking very nice.
Cheers
Steve
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 02:22 PM |
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Yeh how much $$$$$$ Rob, haha
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 04:14 PM |
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schmick, loving the colour, the brms go very nicely, i want a set of brm 4's for my car
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 05:58 PM |
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Man I love that thing! |
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 06:00 PM |
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That is smooth as very kool
Marc
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 06:58 PM |
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looking good ,must feel even better when driving along and having all the people looking at you
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 07:31 PM |
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Very nice Rob!!
But i am with Matara - how is the Type 4??
Happy with the torque??
Was it easy to get tuned???
Barry
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 07:42 PM |
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Well done Rob, excellent result. You must be proud and relieved..
THE LOWEST WITH THE MOSTEST BLING BLING WINS!!
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 08:03 PM |
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Looking sweet Rob, any more pics???
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 09:02 PM |
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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.
Excentric (wife says) VW nut, having owned 250+ VWs in 40 years.
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 09:30 PM |
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Nice work Rob
I will keep an eye out for you in Pako (GJs to be precise)
Cheers Doc
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20th OCT 2007 STAY TUNED FOR DETAILS
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| posted on July 19th, 2005 at 09:39 PM |
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Beautiful...What an acheivement!
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| posted on July 20th, 2005 at 07:56 AM |
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great work Rob
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splitbusaustralia
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| posted on July 20th, 2005 at 09:40 AM |
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Cruisin
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!
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| posted on July 20th, 2005 at 09:46 AM |
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wow nice ride man, wuv the colour..
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| posted on July 20th, 2005 at 11:47 AM |
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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
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| posted on July 20th, 2005 at 03:15 PM |
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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.....
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| posted on July 27th, 2005 at 01:20 PM |
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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
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splitbusaustralia
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| posted on July 27th, 2005 at 05:51 PM |
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sorry about the pics!
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
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| posted on July 28th, 2005 at 12:07 PM |
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: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
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splitbusaustralia
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| posted on July 28th, 2005 at 01:52 PM |
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I've put em somewhere else
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
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| posted on July 28th, 2005 at 02:24 PM |
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absolutely NICE
Let me out, When I call my name
IGOR is ALIVE !!!! |
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| posted on July 28th, 2005 at 07:54 PM |
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why don't you just ask for more bandwidth :>
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| posted on July 28th, 2005 at 07:57 PM |
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there ya go :>
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splitbusaustralia
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| posted on July 28th, 2005 at 09:40 PM |
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The bandwidth gods
Ah,the bandwidth gods have answered my prayers! If only they read their email!
Thanks Brad!
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| posted on July 28th, 2005 at 10:23 PM |
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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
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| posted on September 3rd, 2005 at 04:02 PM |
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rob...
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.
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