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Hmm... pretty odd.

Anyway, there's been no problem in Chile, as I wrote before. Hope they find out what happened.

Thanks for your concern.

Pairoa

a90: no problems with electricity here. No news about outages in other countries neither. I guess that the only way it can be an international outage is if a big meteor falls in the middle of South America, or a supervolcano as big as Brazil erupts, as every country has its own power network. Regard...

a90: That is precisely the idea. You are more than welcome if you want to come! And, even before thinking it twice, I realized that I wouldn't have gone far with the old plastic glove box on the tunnel of the engine. Surely I was not the only one to see it... So, I went to the store and bought some ...

Great! It feels good when someone shows once again that I am not the only crazy dude around.

Waiting for the rest of the story and the pictures.

Cheers.

As soon as I presented the metal tray on the lining it was evident that there would be a space conflict with the stereo amplifier. It was a big piece of equipment, obviously oversized for the volume of the cabin of the truck, as everyone pointed insistently. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/v-vPYbt...

Back home we resumed our routines and I continued, when possible, with the repairing of the rear wall lining. To ensure the integrity of the edges of the opening for the passthrough I made a frame from steel plate which I glued to the lining. Then, I glued some reinforcements to support the flat cov...

Hello everybody: Needless to repeat that I have had very little time to work on the truck the last weeks, but something has been done. Pretty little, but still. Working with the rear wall lining was especially hard because it was pretty fragile and needed many repairs. I had to take out the bent edg...

Thanks for your kind words, Jurgen.
Most appreciated.

And the same to you for Rocky.

Pairoa and Carmen

The frame was then put in place, with a generous provision of glue, and the flanges carefully though strongly folded. It was a very good solution, according to me at least. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7KjF77iPgUfcH_cMvvzi3K6XUKElFp0q_3qFce4TBi3zKUMK_1L4S0g-q9sKt1TYb2OwOxhXlkQwrVqi-cfXqMAc7m6YK...

When I had a little free time, I got the roof lining from its hideout and prepared myself and the working place for repairing it. If you remember, I took it from a doomed truck in a scrapyard a few years ago because it was in far more better shape than the original lining of the Merkabah. https://lh...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/jZNapr5qtH_4yeo-BEVQlnvCspiMRUCUvwt9WJOmwmBKnq3EnRpWi-og5MaP5s1FkFyT4Y5Vq58ILBnqDKcyaZfIfhrg06sCBWzSUGq0PCiuhpnJsf64kI-DCwL8a-eevsBhjvtWR57icBfdeWovtL0oMVQerCUcsNdw25uf9VaRu_WvtTH_BsLEMAkvsk8TtWLKSXhkSjNwHN3RUpCOb4p6tUbfBtiCHvhVnSXtIZ2f0KWUJOUvfFhjiMBsTE63ZFy8A0rU1...

Hello, and greetings to you and to your project, tooFATtoDRIVE. Just a few words to keep this thread as alive as I can. It has been quite strange times, pretty busy, as usual, and a little bitter too. I’ve done only minor things, always waiting for the brake cylinder to arrive from somewhere in the ...

Does not matter how slow you go, as long as you do not stop.

Congratulations for the job done so far. Keep it up.


Pairoa

In the meantime, there were no news about the brake cylinder quest. I had just to wait. What to do next? Well, I went to the shop some day and got the control panel for the CTIS from its box and added a little chaos to the already messy central console installing it in the middle of the wiring. http...

In the front I had forgotten to tighten the air tubes to the air shocks so I had to do it before having any effect, of course. Once ready, the bellies inflated when the proper button was pushed and the frame and the cabin lifted and tilted a few centimeters, not too much though noticeable. https://l...

To check if the locks worked properly Carmen and I went to the mountains north of San Felipe. We took with us Deva, Amanda and Cachito. The Montero climbed up like a spider and the locks did not jam. Good. Deva and the little dogs had a very good time exploring the dry lands. It was a good short tri...

He did it, carefully as always, and checked the rubber pieces and seals. According to him they were too soft, probably ruined by the time they did not work. He also criticized the make of the cylinder, of Chinese origin. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Z47-kowAkSkOyQVYBaobQZmxiQDaoMikJyhQ3Q08bXFtP...

Hello again. Hope you all are okay. It’s been rough times here, with lots of things to do and little time for the Merkabah mixed with some health issues. The brakes problem is still unsolved. We tried the way the Mercedes Benz manual tells to purge the brakes without success. I made a lot of attempt...

I went to the workshop, when I could, and found nobody to help me at that moment because they were pretty busy. So, I went to other thing and checked the differential lockers looking for the reason why they did not work as supposed. I had fixed the electrical circuits for the warning lights and ther...

Well… getting closer but not there yet. Hola, Pirx! I tried what you mention, but did not work. Thanks anyway. A few days passed, and I had to do other things. When I finally could put my hands on the isolated pump, or cylinder, as you may like, I purged the air the way everybody tells you to do it,...

Congratulations for the effort and the results so far. The truck looks great!

Keep up with the good work.


Pairoa

A few days passed and I had to work like every human being because someone had to pay all the expenses of the project. At some moment I got a couple of hours in between appointments so I run to the shop and assembled the renewed tail lights and the quite lightweight plate holder. I believed it was s...

Thinking about the idea of the changing standards, an accommodative shift under some not very propicious circumstances, made me feel uncomfortable so I decided to do things the way I was doing before the fast and the furious came. I grabbed a piece of discarded metallic sheet and made with it the si...

I felt kind of desperate because the air leaking at the valves and distributor was still an issue and pressure could not build up in the system. I tried what I had at hand to help with the tightness, but it naturally did not work as expected. I needed to replace the banjo and racord bolt system beca...

Hi, a90. Yes… it’s been quite an effort so far. Let’s continue. I removed the gear shift valve, even if I wanted not so much to do it. I disassembled it and found that it was full of a dirty and slimy thing. The components seemed to be in very good codition, though, and I could not believe it, when ...

Sorry, Carsten. I left you in the oblivion. Do you mean these? https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Gde_WfBdumXBBa4HX2banPgBBaw2_-BongNhULPkocpYmM5JPGeXqPmi6ehGW9BhnU6nQAQyIYN7y2xovyGNi8hzZxyPdArq7hbSluPriVUkg1UMmWR34I05xd_SrMFFV5Pb-dLO0nth-ZQhfQThb8x4H2nnz7m6U2_HejSGlWUbO0QIWypc25gUDuO5gdGWau_gLaXH9kV...

Ater all these years some superficial rust had formed on the pin, naturally, but a little more of RostOff and the pin was able to move freely and thus the shifting shaft began to move free again. Good. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/X9NpQlwsyTKzxKsyvdx8hDcDJqf_P0BeNBKr0fnVC25_vsJtMzYv-Bn59QsvVRqn...

I removed first the cover of the bottom of the shift case and, clearly, it was the same case. I cleaned the cover for good and went on. https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/doQALtqITxAY87Tc_W1UMdJL8n9Y2jNQpixDBz2akoqQKWrgMat-qyz78-cgR7kWNftM4dVefOgWnhNY1kceMChbuTpdRockVVxZ9r8y5sa7eOcjwPsfbL-FQzavZTUkQs...

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YtRu2JzOmHdwfaJUU2zTwevZO48IQL5i5DAipCwuM8NS02W88KYhGS2YV_OsZdp86koUIffzAa6GPL5vOPjk93pTKYMc_n5QvZZg6L57H_vyNTnSS5kgSRCYWsPi4c5opqW66ukWdumd_fX1ekySBOvbFOa8DCjRhqNKvcy9fg0QWiGaqmKWnNTNojz5V4H1syRKbW840jeKH3cYFvHuxkpT5q6ThfXW_kqy_dnfQPvpUpZk7yaNnmqm3_KLLPcajJexbhAMQ...

Well, it took a lot of time to test, check and solve every little problem regarding the air circuits, and I only had a few hours to work, and just a few days of the week, so the Merkabah had to keep on waiting for the final moment. And it seemed it would hardly come. https://lh3.googleusercontent.co...