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Maiden voyage on K'gari (Fraser Island) with the local Manx club, surprisingly capable on the sand, soft and hard, the splitty reduction hub gearbox working overtime to keep me moving forward. Didn't even get bogged lol. 10/10 recommend #karmannghia
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Uh oh too high, time to rip everything out and lower the suspension #karmannghia
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Has it been done before? Maybe not. Should I be doing it? Probably not. Am I gonna do it anyway? Yeah, righto.
Reduction hub kombi gearbox conversion for the #karmannghia hoping for a bit of extra rear clearance before my incoming trip to the beach
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Temporarily taking her out of camping mode and into car mode while I recover from the petrol bill might even give her a lick of paint who knows, one things for sure she looks wierd now lol #volkswagen #karmannghia

Priming those sills and bits I missed last time, the epoxy is going to be doing some heavy lifting but it's the best primer money can buy, looking good until I do the whole body
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Hell yeah #boggang

If you love Karmann Ghias, look away 🙈 considering this was the first car I learnt to weld on, some of it is still holding up strong, I have neither time or money so just doing a 2 year fix on the worst parts #volkswagen
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Finally got around to welding a strip around the tinware to meet up with the engine seal, hopefully will keep some of the exhaust heat out of the engine bay

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A few snaps of our yearly #volkswagen show Dubs On The Hill, good weekend though rain kept a few people away

Quiet Easter camp out! #camping
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Ruh roh

Also made a tappet cover racer for our #volkswagen show that has been cancelled due to the incoming cyclone so here's a sneak preview lol

Finally, the combo between the Temp Matador 16" rims with the 205r16 all terrain tyres has jacked the back up just a lol bit more, pretty much maxed out for a swing axle. Looking beastly

Ruh roh my flywheel has been getting nice and toasty

The wheels on my #karmannghia compared to stock, was lucky enough to find a pair of wide 5 pattern 5.5x 16 inch wheels that came off a Tempo Matador, one of the funkiest looking vehicles ever made. Just need to find a nice 7.5 r16 mud terrain tyre to fit them 😂 extremely hard in Australia.

Day 3: disaster lol, the gear box is a dud, locked in 1st gear, looks like I'm temporarily borrowing the gearbox from my 58 Baja beetle for the meantime, until I do an irs conversion

How my clutch plate looks 🫣 (normal worn out one on right by comparison) looks like she didn't like my 4wd track shenanigans as much as I thought

Just #volkswagen things lol

Merry Christmas! Engine out, now for gear box

Tomorrow is Christmas, so time for some festival changes 😌

Old rack came off a beetle, I didn't like how it looked on the roof though so I pushed it back further, body lift is custom, front end 4mm cut and turn, rear suspension is basically all stock, maxed out the torsion bars but it's basically all I can do without converting to IRS

The rack on the front is just a Rola roof rack I found in the back yard lol, designed for small cars but it has a wide gutter mount so I figured it could support a fair amount of weight, the rear is something I whipped up in a few hours with some RHS and aluminium base plate

World first maybe? Probably not lol, hard shell rooftop tent install complete for now, just need to pick a weekend to test it out 😁 #volkswagen
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Does it count as a secret project if you post it online? 😌 Only just finished tacking together the bracket to hold it onto the roof, but what is it?

Carrying camping gear for 2 is difficult but not impossible, camping trip last weekend
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Few snaps of a camping trip I did mid this year, extremely capable on 4wd tracks, especially with mud tyres #camping
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How she used to look before I decided on a paint job (primer) to get a roadworthy and registration
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Sometimes modding your #Volkswagen goes wrong, exhibit A. Silly me decided to do a cut and turn on the front beam for some extra clearance, what I didn't know was that 10mm turn meant a height gain of 100mm, learnt my lesson, I swapped the front beam back out with another one I had laying around