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21 850.jpg 21 851.jpg As I needed some more bolts and nuts, I grabbed some wrenches and walked decidedly towards Spare II. The poor truck had not much to offer, though, as most of the pieces were held together by rivets. 21 853.jpg The few bolts I could get from the frame were in not so good condit...

I decided that I would keep the rear section of the main rails of the subframe longer than needed, just in case some great/stupid idea popped up. I then cut both profiles and the left overs became two of the main crossmembers. 21 831.jpg The long clamps helped to keep the new shape and, again, I spe...

I worked pretty hard and for many hours cleaning the neglected 100x50x5 steel profiles, alternating both power grinders not to burn them out. 21 811.jpg The final result was okay, not perfect but good enough to work with the profiles cleanly. The plan was to build the subframe and once finished take...

I made some good-looking patches trying to slow down the rate of decay and to minimize the damage to the paint and left it for the dry and hot season to be properly addressed, whenever that might be. Made a stop at Eduardo’s workshop the next day and took the steering wheel, which Don Pato had gentl...

I checked if the thing worked, first of all, and then I cut a piece of metal sheet from the scrap box to make a support for the resistor that then I glued to the control unit of the tire inflation system, et voilà! 21 769.jpg 21 771.jpg A couple of items would be left for a later time, like the inst...

My deepest appreciation and the most felt regards from the distance, guys. Glad you like these lines. Well, the fixing of some minor leaks continued and I reached to maintain at least 4 bar of pressure from one day to the other, which reduced the waiting time before cranking and parking brake releas...

Hello, Moritz, and thanks for your encouragement. Well, Bushrider65, yours is actually a very good and appropriate question indeed. I could just say that the target of all these efforts, all this spending of time and money through all these years are just about the original idea of travelling the wo...

Back at home, I replaced the clutch lever of the bike that was broken at some poor handling moment when parking. It could have been just a regular fix not deign of notice, but the spare parts costed f…king Euro 260! I looked at both BMWs and sighed; it was the price for having not one but two big, d...

Hello again, everybody, and thanks for your words, Joe. Profiting of having the welder plugged and near, I welded the metal pieces to the bumper struts and gave them a couple of hands of gray paint from a spray can. It was not exactly the same colour as the original paint, but it was okay for the ti...

I removed the contralateral shock and it was not broken, but almost. So, I started to search for a couple of replacements that led me initially to nothing as I had bought already the last couple of shocks in stock some years ago, the ones that were right there. As the rusted supples were out, I took...

The problem at that moment was that there was a constant low hissing from under the cabin, and I needed to tilt it to fix the air leaks underneath. Initially, I thought that I would need to also replace the hydraulic cylinder along with the hand pump, already installed, but I decided to give the old...

When I put the panels in place, it all started to make sense and looked in order, again. 21 651.jpg At some moment, I wanted to take the truck for a longer ride to see if there was any other issue, as it would surely be the case, and I still had not connected the air management system, so there was ...

21 629.jpg No need to stress that I rushed to assemble the engine, including the short cardan shaft, absolutely convinced that the issue was definitely solved. I did not pause to take a picture of the process, as I usually do. Of course, I did not forget to properly connect the oil pressure gauge. ...

Yes… as most of the readers would expect, the starter worked perfectly and cranked the engine after a few turns, but the damn noise reappeared immediately after. I let the mighty V8 idle for a few moments and went to check what in the hell was still fooling around, testing my patience and my determi...

Sorry for the delay, Marcus. Hope it was good Easter for you and thanks for the vibes. Hello to everyone: Hope you are all okay in these quite strange and powerful times we are in. Today is a very sad day as Deva, my beloved and restless german sheperd, passed away this morning. It was a violent dea...

And, one day, Ramón the builder finished the house… and the parking… and half the roof of my brother-in-law’s workshop. Finally. 21 567.jpg The day after, he and his son, Gabriel, came back to our house and got back to work with us. The first job was to replace the beam that supported the trusses of...

The normal life and the regular job went on, leaving not much time to enjoy the ups and to grieve the downs of the project. At some point, the upholsterer delivered the wooden subframe for the central control panel, and I went to his place to pick it up. He has already retired and does only little j...

Hello: Critical times, uh? Hope you are all okay. Carmen and I took Helga and went to the coast and had lunch at the beach, for a change, some weeks ago. It was a terribly hot day at home, but it was pretty cold and cloudy when we arrived to our favorite restaurant by the sea. Nonetheless, there was...

And there it was, the only remaining piece of steel of the frame of Spare. 21 501.jpg After unearthing it, I cut some pieces and worked the way to get them precisely shaped to strengthen and enlarging the support. The rest is known. 21 503.jpg 21 505.jpg 21 507.jpg Once the paint dried up I installe...

One of the items I had long neglected was the lug nuts. Some had already noticed that the wheels had only six or eight lug nuts in place, and this has two explanations. One: I am lazy; two: the military rims are made for coned lug nuts, and I only had the swivel flanged ones that came with the norma...

Next, I put the heating unit back in place in the cabin, connected the hoses and tightened the brackets and… voilà! ready to fly. Sure. 21 459.jpg The next day, talking to Eduardo, I mentioned the closing of the valve and he brang up the issue of the pressure on the cooling system. I did not think o...

That afternoon I left Piston, the newly arrived dog -yes… another one-, locked inadvertently inside the shop. At some moment, when we were dining, we heard some noises from the terrace above. It was him that got up captain Nemo’s stairs and walked his way through the container to the terrace of seco...

Hello again: Things are getting interesting all over the world, eh? Good. Thanks for your tip on the cleaning products, lura. I have been discouraged to use them, though, as it seems they can, in the process, clog the radiator with the dirt and rust removed. Maybe I will give it a chance later on. W...

Thank you for your help, Willie.

I already asked for pictures and a quote from them and from a couple of shops in Denmark and in Turkey.

We will see.

Cheers.

The next day, I replaced the old crank and the broken linkage of the wiper with the reconditioned parts and, finally, I could say that the washer-wiper system was finished. Or was it? Then, I remembered that I still had not installed the reservoir for the mighty powerwasher. Ops. 21 397.jpg 21 399.j...

And so, some time later, the two pieces were ready for painting in their way for a new home. 21 377.jpg 21 379.jpg 21 381.jpg While the paint dried up, I removed the hoses from the heating unit and unpleasantly discovered that they were very dirty inside. There had to be a lot of dirt also inside th...

Hello: Just a few things to add to this story. As told, I installed the windshield wipers and made sure all the connections were okay and the new motor and the new steering column switch worked properly. And they did, aparently. Good, I thought, but it was just a thought, as I realized later. I spen...

Found the new tecalan among other forgotten stuff in the container and made all the connections so the servo could get air to work with. 21 331.jpg I did not connect the hydraulic line. I would wait for the spare of the release bearing of the clutch to be installed and the clutch bell housing being ...

I was not in the mood to build a new one from scratch, so I did my best to keep it simple and came up with a solution that turned to be indeed simple and tough enough, thanks to a couple of ad hoc bolts and the powergrinder. Good too. 21 307.jpg 21 309.jpg Replacing the hydraulic pump was quite easy...

Drilled a few holes and had to deal with a very short length of wiring that, at first, made me struggle with the front cover of the fan box as there was not enough room for the connector. 21 293.jpg I made another groove and stretched a little the connections, and finally got to accommodate the conn...