Short update from my "permanent construction site":
In the past few months I have completely dismantled the engine in a friend's workshop ...
... and bought everything new that had any signs of wear - lioke this ventiles...
...or had to be replaced for another reason!
Engine block and everything else is cleaned with a steam jet (after previous "Caramba" bathing orgies), ALL oil channels are free again!
Now I can turn the previously totally dirty (and correspondingly stiff) oil pump...
...with two fingers, not as before with heavy equipment (pipe wrench)...:
The bad news: Before Christmas I had to give the crankshaft for grinding / balancing, I can't do that myself - and that will cost extra. ** sigh **
Meanwhile, the two large construction sites of the car are slowly taking shape:
I got body parts for cheap money in Switzerland last summer to remove the bulky trunk ceilings that were added later at the factory (which totally messed up the elegant lines of the car!) And instead to install the old original flap with the spare wheel on it.
The next picture shows the difference: on the right with the trunk lid, on the left with the spare wheel cover - and the beautiful old curly bumpers ...:
That is what a carosseriebuilder from Poland does who really understands his craft.
This is what my "Traction Avant" looked like last summer when it lay still ...:
... and so today ...:
And in one fell swoop the car looks much lighter and more elegant ...
As Edmund Blackadder says, " My path is beset by the giant cowpats deposited by the devil's own incontinent herd ".
