Steps to Get Pro
Pro means professional. In this post i already spoke about this 🙂 Professional is someone who does the thing for living, i.e. the car mechanic repair cars to feed his family. Not every professional performs perfectly, but i will use this word as i don’t know the right one for…
Plug Weld Logic
When we weld 2 pieces of sheet metal, one of them is perforated and we weld through the holes, we speak about plug welding. Here i will explain my logic about “how to do this properly”. Because one of my sheet metals (the body of the car) is not flat,…
Rustproofing Receipt
The Mystical Recipe I found one very strange receipt for rustproofing in an bulgarian classic car forum. If you click the link, search for Отговор #363 (Answer #363). It sounds like a receipt for a magical shit, made by a wizard: Despite of this i have a feeling that it…
Sheet metal and welding thoughts
Sheet Metal I bought 16 ft2 from here. The guy i was in communication with was very king. He defined himself as Human Forklift (formerly known as “Sales”) in his email signature 🙂 He offered me to cut it to 2 pieces of 8 ft2 to decrease (~ the half) the price of…
Butt Welding Lesson
I start with the disclaimer “this is a joke”. I am not good enough to give lessons 🙂 Let’s just get some fun. At the end of the production, they made some modifications for 1.1 and produced the same body for 601. Everybody knew that The end is near, it’s…
Floor Inside (the rustproofing points)
I almost prepared the floor from inside for primer/painting. The holes for rustproofing are visible on the next pictures (some were cut on the spots for patching). Front Side Middle Side Back Side More info about these holes in Butt Welding Lesson. In general the floor is in very good…
Adjust Timing
The Tools The EBZA ignition is using a Hall effect sensor. It is using magnets and it is contactless, therefore there is less wear. Today i remembered how to adjust the EBZA ignition timing. You need this tool: and two flat screwdrivers for the “blue” and the “red” screws: Adjust…
Trabant Gletscherblau = VW Beetle 1974 Olympic Blue (or Marina Blue or between these two colors)
The Meeting Today the Montreal’s Trabant club had a meeting. Very nice and friendly people. My friend gave me his car to drive. I didn’t do this since 1999. Four more “known” cars were missing – mine, 1.1 Universal and other two 2-strokes. One of the Trabant owners also owns…
Documentation
I will use this folder to put all the documentation that i collected – operation manuals, repair manuals, electricity plans, etc. My naming convention is: <Book Title> (<Year>) (<Language>) The languages that i usually collect are German, English and Bulgarian (my mother language).
Hycomat to regular gearbox
Today i helped my friend to switch from hycomat to regular gearbox. We worked on his son’s car. He was there and helped us a lot. These are my notes: The final discovery was that the Megadeth’s Unibroue Saison 13 beer is very nice.