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Eduardo had bought some time ago a Ford Cargo truck from someone who could not pay for its repair and had begun to restore it when Eddie, the painter/mechanician, got sick and left for Ecuador, again. The poor truck was then left in the oblivion for a couple of months until that day, when he came to...

Don’t remember how many times I have said: not again, but anyway, as I wrote before, I tried to reassemble the window and the regulator rail with the rubber profile with no luck, so I brang it to the same guys that installed the winshield. They explained that it was a machine that pressed the rail, ...

I looked for help from the professionals, but they left early that Friday afternoon and would be back Monday morning. Plop. The rail item dropped to the second place and so I took the regulator itself to accomplish the cleaning task that left it shining like new. Well… maybe not that much, but compa...

Hello everybody who wanders by these pages. Happy new year 2020! This will be THE year. It is going to be tough, but it will be good. Well… going on with the story, the door was finally regulated and the closure was very near to perfect. I turned to the door on the driver’s side then, of course. Ano...

The job was not free from inconvenients, like the spillover of adhesive at the worst moment but, anyway, the job was slowly completed. 16071.jpg Once the insulation was finished, I grabbed one of the available windows and worked on the regulator rail. The old grease had become a rocky crust and took...

In the meantime, Hermann the upholsterer was working on the seats, and at some moment after a couple of weeks of delays, he delivered them. I chose to have them renewed in dark grey, and I think it was a good idea, looking at them on the cabin. 16051.jpg I had to assemble the seats and the bases, bu...

Next day, after the regular run with the dogs, I felt on the mood for a ride on the dirtbike. Many weeks have passed since I visited the mountain tracks, and I felt pretty relieved that my skills, though amateur level, were intact, as I did not dress on dirt mode and went on unprotected. Well…nothin...

Hi, MadBkr: Thanks for your words. Actually, 120 psi is not a big deal of pressure. You just loose pressure with a big hissing, but nothing brakes loose except, sometimes, a piece of tecalan. It is a little different, though, when you talk about scuba air tanks. Those go with 200 or 300 bar (2900 to...

I really wanted to cut and weld some steel, but the thing is that I could not begin with the subframe at that moment, probably because there were too many things left unconcluded all around and there was, actually, no real cause for the rush. I would also need for that task to move freely the truck ...

The supports of the tubes would go bolted to the supports of the front brake cilinders, one of them I had made of a thinner steel plate, do not remember why. I had to make a new one, of the proper thickness, and prepared both for priming and painting. 15755.jpg I went to Santiago one day, and went t...

Here we go again, with a little more news from this place on earth. That weekend, some weeks ago I do not remember exactly when, we made a little trip to the beach. This time the weather accompanied us and the sky was clear and the air was fresh but pleasant. There was a lot of people in the water, ...

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...