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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...

Also cleaned up the head of the piston and the cylinder, and covered the compressor to avoid any dirt coming in from the windy and dusty environment. 21 269.jpg 21 271.jpg When I was at it, I looked at the hydraulic actuator of the clutch, and I could not help myself. Took me a little while, but I g...

Hi, tooFATtoDRIVE. Well, when the water and the mud dryed up, I unrolled the front winch cable and hooked it to a chain surrounding the base of one of the pillars of the container. That should be firm enough, I thought, croosing the fingers. 21 245.jpg Plenty of trust, as always, I connected the bat...

Pirx: glad to be around again. My best regards. I went to the store and bought some more plywood panels and started to assemble a platform over the panels. Naturally, I wanted to use the wooden boards from the stand to build the platform also, so I patiently disassembled it, struggling against a mir...

I got the Navara and the WR450 firmly attached on the pickup bed and headed south to the Teno river gorge, 300 km away. It was a long time since my last trip to La Jaula -The Cage-, my family’s old property amidst the Andes mountains. 21 209.jpg The house was almost covered by the grown trees, and t...

It came pretty good in the end, and heavy, and bulky, so I searched for a place to store it when not in use -probably until the end of times- and hung it from the pillars of the container at the entrance of the shop. Deva seemed to agree. 21 183.jpg 21 185.jpg 21 187.jpg As I still needed the mechan...

Greetings to you, Jürgen! We had quite a few adventures together, crossing the mountains and the desert. I premiered the new GoPro and got some interesting filming moments that, at some moment in the future, I will surely edit in a short video… but this is a story for another time. 21 151.jpg 21 153...

I went on with the dusty task of removing stuff and cleaning the interior of the shop to accommodate the panels. The plan was to put them all up on the shelf over the workbench to have plenty of space to work on the truck inside the shop once I could get rid of all that was inside.. 21 130.jpg And s...

It was all previously coordinated so when I arrived there Ignacio and the crew had allready loaded the panels on the truck. 21 111.jpg Ignacio’s wohnmobile was still under construction too, and both brothers shared information about how to deal with some issues and how the curvature of the panels wa...

Kept on doing some minor things, such as building the trellis for the creeper planter. I wanted many plants to help to manage the heat that will irradiate from the concrete entrance and the parking thanks to the merciless sun of the San Felipe/Putaendo valley. 21 088.jpg As you can see, the MIG weld...

There were also some other tasks to complete before the Merkabah could be taken into consideration, like to install the full irrigation system around the house and the shop. So, I hired a guy with an excavator that made a lot of deep ditches to put the pipes to drive the water from the irrigation po...

Greetings, Hans. I know you are there...

We adopted another dog that also made quite an impact on our lives. It was a german shepherd that was found lost in San Felipe and had a very pleasant nature though it was evident that he had suffered quite a bit. I wanted another big dog to guard the house so I met him and there was a special conta...

The building of Eduardo’s house proceeded at a steady pace and got the more attention of Ramon. It was a big beast to build but he managed to make some progress here and there while finishing some items on our house too. 21 023.jpg Our home became more and more comfortable and functional thanks to m...

Well, yes… it’s been quite a while, uh? But here I am, again, with new and necessary efforts aimed to finish this neverending quest that has taken sooooo so long. Not long ago I was on the top of the mountains on a short ride with the Africa Twin, and I decided to resume the work on the truck becaus...

Hello, Berdn: Unfortunatelly there are no news to talk about. The poor Merkabah waits and waits. It does not mean that I have lost interest, at all, but the focus has shifted and, for the most part, there is no place to work on her. Do not know when I will go back to the project. Hopefully soon. Bes...

Hello, Madoxen: Thanks for the vibes. Unfortunately the project is still paused due to the the complexity in which the house project has sunken in. Regular work has also been very demanding in terms of labor and time which has not helped the cause neither. Anyway, even if it seems tough, as always, ...

Hello, tooFATtoDRIVE and lura: Hope you and all the good girls and guys are okay. Sorry for not being around for a while, but I have had nothing interesting to post about the Merkabah in the last few months. The house has got all my attention and it is an ongoing and neverending project on its own. ...

The prefilter box, along with a couple of plastic pieces for the cabin, was also painted with a lot of hands of black paint. I could not find, though, the big metallic clamp that I had fabricated quite a long time ago. 19413.jpg So, I had to take a rusted metal sheet from the surroundings and cut a ...

19399.jpg Well, I had things to do, anyways. Heidi was a little late for her service of the 35.000 km. It was a pleasure to work on her on the elevator, especially for my back. 19400.jpg Ramón finally reached some target points on his list of duties and was momentarily free to give me a hand with t...

19389.jpg Due to the multiplication of the tasks asked Ramón the builder to accomplish, the building of Eduardo’s house went on at a very slow pace, though the quality of the work and the amount of steel and concrete poured so far gave it the name of “The bunker”. 19387.jpg As a side note, I was in...

Unfortunately, a couple of them were worn out, and I do not know how or when. Another issue to deal with in the near future. 19365.jpg I looked at the valve, tightened, caressed and cursed it in the hope that it will keep the air where it was intended to be. Then, in the afternoon, Jaime came with h...

Next, I replaced the alternative relay sockets I had bought and installed long ago by the original ones taken from Spare II. They were far better in shape and quality despite their age. 19349.jpg I had to remove and then relocate all the wirings, but it was worth the pain as I profited to remember w...

That weekend I dedicated a few more hours to the bike elevator. The problem was to keep the big and heavy bikes stable while descending from them once you bring them on the elevator, stable and safe enough to apply the straps to definitively lock the bike in place. This was critical, especially for ...