300 days and 60000km all over asia in a syncro

Outback Kampers · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:28 pm Post subject:

Was that a standard or high cube? Seems it should fit in a high cube no problems?
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1990 Syncro 16" sunroof Reimo highroof conversion
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carterzest · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 2:08 pm Post subject:

gelPsy · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 1:25 pm Post subject:

Hey guys, we are still alive and another video update has been produced! This time: INDIA! Smile

Watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXHjyPeabv8

Thanx,

Martin+Sarah
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14", 1.9 TDi, V2A exhaust/DPF, 2 difflocks, decoupler, 30x9.5R15, ATE57/Lucas38 conversion, Weinsberg poptop, RAL1028

gelPsy · Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2012 3:17 pm Post subject:

TIGERBUS IS BACK HOME! Met at the border by our friends we went to eat at our favourite restaurant before we finally headed home. "Tobi" the cat recognized us and my mother bought pieces of wood for a new fence that "only" has to be built now. Seems like everything back to normal within minutes Smile

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Sarahs university has started and we're trying to sort out all the things that we cut off prior our departure... apartment, job, telefon, money... This is NOT the end of the tiger2asia project, as the missing video episoded suggest. There is a lot more to come, including a BOOK in both english and german. Thanks for all your support, thanks to all the people we met, stay tuned, the Tiger is still on the move! Smile

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Thanx,

Sarah+Martin
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tiger2asia 2011/12 - http://log.tigerbus.de/reisen/tiger2asia-201112/
14", 1.9 TDi, V2A exhaust/DPF, 2 difflocks, decoupler, 30x9.5R15, ATE57/Lucas38 conversion, Weinsberg poptop, RAL1028

gelPsy · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:42 am Post subject:

Crossed most of russia into St. Petersburg, "Venice of the East", met with a group of Russian bus drivers on the island of Kronstadt Smile

Will stay another day, then off to Helsinki, Finland, where even more vanagon enthusiasts are already awaiting the arrival of the Tigerbus - un-be-lie-va-ble! Smile

Track update to St. Petersburg: http://traveller-tracks.de/bl/journeys/show_public/43-tiger2asia

Pictures from Kronstadt meeting:

.martin+sarah
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tiger2asia 2011/12 - http://log.tigerbus.de/reisen/tiger2asia-201112/
14", 1.9 TDi, V2A exhaust/DPF, 2 difflocks, decoupler, 30x9.5R15, ATE57/Lucas38 conversion, Weinsberg poptop, RAL1028

insyncro · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 7:48 am Post subject:

WOW, thats a ton of tranny issues, BUT you have logged so many hard miles.
Impressive.
Safe travels.

dylan

Escorial Syncro · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 6:38 am Post subject:

Thanks for the run down. Always nice to have a mechanic onboard for a trip like this! Joel
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gelPsy · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2012 12:08 am Post subject:

Rebuilt? Hmmm... In Turkey I replaced 4th gear after it threw its teeth. 3rd had to go aswell, as the flying metal destroyed it, too. Second time the pinion bearing retainer nut came loose and the pinion went backwards through the housing... gears (except G) were undamaged. As the housing with the pinion bearing and ring/pinion were destroyed aswell, we replaced the whole box with a used one from Germany, which had been stripped down to the bare minimum (no bell housing, no diff, no nose cone, no levers, switches, whatsoever) and reassembled using our old parts in Ulaan Bataar. Unfortunately I did not replace the 4th gear on that occasion, leaving us with yet another (3rd) fail 3000kms into Russia.

That's already it! Smile

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.martin
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14", 1.9 TDi, V2A exhaust/DPF, 2 difflocks, decoupler, 30x9.5R15, ATE57/Lucas38 conversion, Weinsberg poptop, RAL1028

Escorial Syncro · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 7:48 am Post subject:

Martin,
Love the updates, thanks.

Afraid to ask, but how many times have you had to remove the transmission and rebuild it? I just rebuilt a transmission for my TDI swap, I used HD Weddle stuff...hope it's enough!

Thanks, Joel
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2002 Toyota Tundra 4x4

MKIII and Sons · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 4:47 am Post subject:

what an amazing adventure.
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gelPsy · Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:36 am Post subject:

There you go: http://www.easy2design.de/bla/en/2012/08/22/westwards-from-sibiria/
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14", 1.9 TDi, V2A exhaust/DPF, 2 difflocks, decoupler, 30x9.5R15, ATE57/Lucas38 conversion, Weinsberg poptop, RAL1028

gelPsy · Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2012 10:47 pm Post subject:

Hello

Long story short: In Mongolia we smashed the pinion bearing retainer nut, meaning it simply jumped on the thread. Of course pinion bearing became loose and walked backwards through the gearbox, ruining the G synchroizer teeth and making the ring/pinion overlap smaller and smaller. One day in the middle of Mongolia the pinion and the ring just gave up. Total failure alltogether. 400kms of towing by a fellow Landcruiser who HAPPEND to be there just in time into Ulaan Bataar. LUCKILY sarah had flown back to Germany to sort out some University stuff, so just two weeks of waiting for me all alone in Ulaan Bataar, then Sarah came back to Mongolia with our fully stripped down spare gearbox (no diff, no nose cone, nothing else...). Put it all back together and off we went into Russia. 3000kms later the 4th threw all its teeth again. Should have replaced it right there and then in Mongolia, but I didn't think about it. Of course the spare box wasn't new, so that could have been foreseen. Anyway, 12hrs by the road and we went on with yet another 4th gear - i put the shot blasted 0.85 back in, that took us all the way from Turkey to Mongolia. It does its job fine ever since, we're about 1800kms short of St. Petersburg now, near KIROV in the forrest Smile

Apparently the HD pinion retainer nut and 3rd/4th from Weddle could have made this trip much more enjoyable. Oh well, we simply didn't have the funds.

I'll put some picture from russia on the blog right now Smile

Btw, some russian vanagon driver in Sibiria presented me a 3rd and a 4th just in case... Smile

))

.martin

P.S.: Lake Baikal is nice... Smile

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14", 1.9 TDi, V2A exhaust/DPF, 2 difflocks, decoupler, 30x9.5R15, ATE57/Lucas38 conversion, Weinsberg poptop, RAL1028

gelPsy · Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2012 7:32 pm Post subject:

Pakistan anyone?! Our new video is online NOW! See here: http://www.easy2design.de/bla/2012/07/27/tiger2asia-video-teil-5-veroffentlicht/

Happy watching,

.martin+sarah, Ulaan Bataar, Mongolia
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tiger2asia 2011/12 - http://log.tigerbus.de/reisen/tiger2asia-201112/
14", 1.9 TDi, V2A exhaust/DPF, 2 difflocks, decoupler, 30x9.5R15, ATE57/Lucas38 conversion, Weinsberg poptop, RAL1028

gelPsy · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:28 pm Post subject:

Track update to reflect most of our China adventures... update up to Ulaan Bataar within the next days! See here: http://www.traveller-tracks.de/bl/journeys/show_public/43-tiger2asia
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14", 1.9 TDi, V2A exhaust/DPF, 2 difflocks, decoupler, 30x9.5R15, ATE57/Lucas38 conversion, Weinsberg poptop, RAL1028

slo356 · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 11:06 pm Post subject:

Martin y Sarah,

Thanks for the trip update and great video #4. Seems you have been in China a long time...also seems you enjoyed and learned a good deal.

Btw, other Germans out doing stuff today, 4July in the Tour de France, was sprinter Andre Greipel winning Stage 4 to Rouen.

Drive safe.
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gelPsy · Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:41 pm Post subject:

huhu

we're in china, about to leave for mongolia… and we just published our 4th video Smile

)) see here: https://vimeo.com/45123601 greetings, martin
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14", 1.9 TDi, V2A exhaust/DPF, 2 difflocks, decoupler, 30x9.5R15, ATE57/Lucas38 conversion, Weinsberg poptop, RAL1028

tencentlife · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:01 pm Post subject:

gelPsy · Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:37 am Post subject:

The TRack has been updated to reflect our current position.... seee here http://www.traveller-tracks.de/bl/journeys/show_public/43-tiger2asia

Sarah already on her way home... Smile

Next stops will be Mongolia, Lake Baikal... Russia all the way west to the Baltic states.

See you,

.martin+sarah, China
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14", 1.9 TDi, V2A exhaust/DPF, 2 difflocks, decoupler, 30x9.5R15, ATE57/Lucas38 conversion, Weinsberg poptop, RAL1028

slo356 · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:23 pm Post subject:

Latest news relay from TigerBus f-book page.

Both front wheel bearings, both upper and lower balljoints, lower bushings of the front shocks... all that f*cked in Tibet! Two full days under the van - luckily, we had most of that stuff as spares and the rest came from Germany via FedEx Smile

Thanks to Stefan from GMB, Volkmar and TK! Smile

(All the above parts had done around 40k miles when we left home, all good quality stuff...)
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