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Hi guys:

Thanks for your words. My foot is okay.

tooFATtoDRIVE: this is the best I can do for you.

I descended from the cabin and tumbled on one of the footrests. I thought I could use some time preparing it for a round of plaster and sanding before painting and installing it. 15719.jpg Got the bumping hammer and one of the bumping dollies and began to reshape and undent the metal when, suddenly,...

Back at the shop, I sanded the box and its cover with progressively finer grain sand paper, and then applied many hands of an ad hoc satin black paint to get the uniform look I wanted. Three cans were used just for that job, and at least one day in between each hand of paint. Pretty annoying. 15701....

Well… what do you think happened? Yes… absolutely nothing. I could not make it work. There were only whistles and static. Christ. All I wanted was to listen to a couple of piano accords but… nothing. Then, the news of the disaster. Chileans decided to commit economical and political suicide at a gal...

Instead, I grabbed the dusty pieces that hold the turning lights on the mudguards. They were pretty rusted, with a lot of little holes and dents. I remembered at the moment why I left them apart and away from sight all this time. It took me quite a while to get rid of the rust and seal all the holes...

Another issue was that the service tray was wide open on top, not good for the care of the hardware itself and not good for the sound management either. So, I took a few pieces of steel sheet from around and fabricated some covers for closing the tray over the speakers. It was a long and boring job,...

Hello again. It’s been a while. Still cannot figure out what is the bloody problem with the pictures. For now I will try to keep up using the capacity of the account for attachements, hoping it will be enough. My memory is not my best attribute, so hope not to forget many things. I will go on from w...

Christ! I can't fix this thing!

Ops. And now?

So, as it has happened before in this neverending personal learning project, I had to start from zero. I cut the failed plate off and threw it away, cut another one, prepared and drilled it, drilled the base and threaded the holes for the 6 mm bolt that were initially - and wisely - been bought for ...

At the end of the day, no matter how many times I washed my hands, my fingers and palms showed the marks of the efforts and dedication to cleaning and sanding all the intrincated shapes and surfaces of the pieces. Was it worth? Of course. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wiCNSlZaIYVrZ3dPIidy4b7B81I...

Well… here we go again. Things have not changed a lot, and thus big progresses have been absent these days. The blocked BMW that did not allow the Merkabah to go out for a ride was still there so I have dedicated what was left of the days to go on with little tasks an the seat business, item that ha...

Thanks carbon, and thanks Pirx!

I have got an idea/solution from this thread.


Pairoa

Hi, a90: Unfortunately no, there is no big air compressor. I have made a few attempts to fill directly the air system of the Merkabah before, but the pressure given by the compressor at hand was simply not high enough. The exhaust of the truck is pretty straightforward, just passing from the combust...

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Days passed and there was a lot of cars coming in and out the workshop, but the car of the ex wife of Franz, the air conditioning guy, still was waiting for some exotic and pretty expensive part quite difficult to find. It was the only obstacle for the Merkabah as she needed that place to maneuver h...

Hi again. No… nothing pretty exciting. Just a few words and a few pictures. I liked the idea of reporting more often, and this way I am more aware of the different and quite numerous things still to do. After struggling a little with time and steel I almost finished the base for the driver’s seat. A...

Really, quite a nice work.

I share with you the respect for all who do it right at the first time.

Regards.


Pairoa

I cut, welded and drilled some pieces of steel as supples and stretched the perforated plates to reach far bellow the level of the upper framerail. The new measurements indicated that the front height was 31 cm and the rear one was 27, so I set the torsion free points accordingly. https://lh3.google...

Hello, and thanks for the encouragement, a90. Some brief words regarding the project. It is easier to report little things, especially when you have time for it, and not let the story go on and cumulate, not remembering when or what did you do. First of all, I have to confess that I finally washed t...

When I could, I got some steel and also a dedicated angle-cutter saw to work with. I also got a few more G clamps of different sizes to help me with the task. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/MyluHQswQ6N0D8_lWpro71Lihn9m_bDUhJfV5C33xIBQ50966odksyVqmZQcWQwFMLlcAkbHRIwHWm4ydBKqraJW-U1L-XCUXsKA33UVtUa...

So, I lifted the rear right wheel and put it on one of the old brake drums kept always at hand… just in case. Then, I repeated the move on the front left wheel. A pause and a picture showed a very promising job, but when I was uncomfortably jacking up the last centimeters I heard a strange bump comi...

Hi again. In fact, two or three weeks isn’t much time. I need to work as everybody else to pay for the toys I love to play with. And work has been hard with very little time left for the Merkabah. Just a few news, all in all. Last time I was in the middle of the building of a new and more accurate t...

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Hi, Wolfram: Thanks for your regards. Carmen, the dogs and the cats send back regards to you. Yes, I will measure the turning radius with and without the intervention of the air suspension next time I go out in the Merkabah. It will be a good and objective method of quantify the relationship between...

Thank you, Oli. But, please... a little more faith!

Hi, Uwe: Yes, I am having a lot of fun indeed. The current drag of the third axle is enormous, as in any tandem. It will only get worse when loaded, BUT... this is where the air suspension comes into play. If I have to make a tight turn, I raise the pressure on the second axle, the load is transferr...

Happy and feeling like the king of the world I turned back to the city, a few blocks away. I was a little nervous, though, because of the illegal condition of the Merkabah. When I reached the gates of the shop there was a couple of cars blocking the entrance as Eduardo was chatting with some clients...

At some point I decided to go serious and aimed to one of the half demolished staircases to make the truck flex for real. Had to connect the 6x6 to go up, though. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/lnINfzLGTbtywc3SKq_3Ijf4z8uJVcDbQvCQRpIOA__b4wv9gleZngIMmMdPQjSiqLkmbaBiAPysgcnf-C55pcJKsDxTfbJ4iAT2M-r...

Hello again: Life and the project go on, fortunately. And now it is even more funny even if I barely step into the shop. Short on time, short on progresses, I worked a little more with the base of the seat of the Montero, but finally got to nothing trying to preserve the original base of the truck's...