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Wed Jul 08, 2009 9:19 am

up in Red Feather, Colorado, video is short but what they hay.

Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:42 pm

Coming back DOWN off the mountain . . .

-Klauss

Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:01 pm

ghostwagens wrote: Found this on the net somewhere...

he should have welded a shovel on the front of that one lol

Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:38 pm

ghostwagens wrote: :) Dammit you're right! I give you all these cool pics of orange buses with roo bars in the roo bar forum and now you blow my cool and tell me that it's a beach. Thanks :) :oops:
so just curious, if i give you a snowcone but its full of sand ...will you eat it?

Tue Jul 28, 2009 5:41 pm

78Kombi wrote: ghostwagens wrote: :) Dammit you're right! I give you all these cool pics of orange buses with roo bars in the roo bar forum and now you blow my cool and tell me that it's a beach. Thanks :) :oops:
so just curious, if i give you a snowcone but its full of sand ...will you eat it?

lol :lol:

Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:31 pm

theizzardking wrote: ghostwagens wrote: Found this on the net somewhere...

he should have welded a shovel on the front of that one lol
I think thats one of the proto types for the synchro they made.. was like a few 79 buses ..kinda lit now so , not sure..

Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:39 pm

78Kombi wrote: I think thats one of the proto types for the synchro they made.. was like a few 79 buses ..kinda lit now so , not sure..

It's definitely NOT a prototype Bay Window Synchro. :roll: That's clearly a fairly recent picture, and none of the prototypes were ever released to the public. They certainly didn't rust and get primered over. THIS is a prototype Bay Window Synchro.

Tue Jul 28, 2009 6:58 pm

my bad, you are correct.was mistaken

Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:00 pm

Syncro. A synchro is in your transmission.

Aka Quattro 1, the mother of AWD.

Tue Jul 28, 2009 7:18 pm

Around Lake Kachess, we've been rolling down a snow mobile track for the last 1/2 mile.. mm time to turn around... right after I snap some pics.

Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:29 am

Krautski wrote: Syncro. A synchro is in your transmission.

Aka Quattro 1, the mother of AWD.

so how hard would it be to fab up a synchro tranny for the bays? i'm willing to be they used the same case with different components, it'd be cool if we could get our hands on one and reverse engineer that sucker.

seriously though anyone know how they achieved this in the prototypes?
what kind of t-case did it have? any other special parts... or am i only going to get this info by breaking in to the museum in Germany and take one apart?

Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:33 am

You don't have to break into the VW Museum in Germany-it's open to the public. You can walk right in. Disassembling the prototype on the floor of the museum I'm sure they would frown upon though. There's an Australian website with lots of 4X4 Buses on it, most of them running water cooled 265 V8's.

Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:56 am

VDubTech wrote: You don't have to break into the VW Museum in Germany-it's open to the public. You can walk right in. Disassembling the prototype on the floor of the museum I'm sure they would frown upon though. There's an Australian website with lots of 4X4 Buses on it, most of them running water cooled 265 V8's.

yeah but after the plane ticket i probably couldn't afford the admission fee! lol you got a linky to that site vdub?

Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:19 am

I've seen a conversion done using a Late model Syncro for the doaner.... It took many frame mods and frame parts from the Syncro and used many of the drivetrain components..... Lotsa work.... :)

It can be done..... but it won't easily be reversable if you wanted to go back to a stock Bay .... :?

Here is a little reading..... :D
http://vintagebus.com/cgi-bin/gallery-search.cgi?string=4x4

Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:26 am

hhrrrmmm so the bay frame in these protypes above are completely different from the standard bay? it makes sense that they may need to strengthen the chassis for a 4x4 model as these things are just tin cans anyways, or was it just alot of work getting the fram to accept the trans axle? as in fitting it and brackets and such?

Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:04 am

well here are some more pics

that is the mudhole i posted earlier that ate my bay

in the background you may notice me attaching a tow rope to my roo bar. that thing is strong enough to pull him out of that mud hole we learned. we also learned the value of a snorkle!

Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:12 am

Awesome pics Fusername, that looks like a shitload of fun!!

Wed Nov 11, 2009 10:24 am

that it was. turns out a server monster ate my last post of pics, so here is what happened the first time I attempted that mud hole a few weeks prior:

it was a fight to keep the tail pipe above water, notice the bumper is underwater in teh background. my engine did not like the extra backpressure, and all my exhaust leaks let water in which had to be cleared from time to time w/ a led foot. ended out needing to reverse out of that area i nteh dark w/ no reverse lights. no fun.

more fun pics:

its a little known fact that the lat 70s bays actually prefer grazing to nozzle feeding.

Wed Nov 11, 2009 11:26 am

what kinda tires ya runnin there fusername?

Wed Nov 11, 2009 12:16 pm

NLA BFG all terrains, 27x8.5 r14
if I had known then what I know now, I would have saved the money, bought some 15 inch mercedes rims and a set of retread 30x9.5, or 215x85, which would give me another inch lift. I would love to test fit some 31s, if they work i would run those. everything is better w/ 15 inch rims.