The rest will be green too?

No, yellow, just using up good paint.

They say today all cars have to be greener....yours is coming on quite well.

^^^^^

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Flipped the flamer over for the last time.

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The usual sight, the brake shoes had seized as had the cylinders, bearings are ok, just need cleaning and new grease.

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All ok here except for the steering rack guide bush, i'll fit a new one and grease nipples.

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The weather continues to be kind.

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Even these went in without a fight .

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That's the weekend sorted then.

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Perhaps I should fix the workshop manual .

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Good stuff happens even in a sh*thole like this .

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Better get back to it.

Yes i know several of this workspaces too ).
I did some routing today on a clock part. I was strange to do this driven by hand wheels. At my work i have an CNC router.
And then i cleaned 2 vintage Tefifons. One is working the other has a problem with the drive and the pick-up element seems to be dead.

That's all good stuff Fer!

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The bearings and the brakes all went back together ok, I even remembered to fit the seal before finally fitting the drum .
The spiral pipes went in ok too so I was feeling pretty good and the weather was sunny, then...

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I noticed this. What you can see here is the cover plate over a felt seal and it's given up the ghost, what I saw was terminal corrosion of the spring tube end cap. For reasons unknown I decided to remove the cap. What a waste of time that was.

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Absolutely butchered it .

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Of course the springs, rods and the tube are all perfect, as good as new .

I don't know why I didn't realise at the beginning that it was just a rusty cover plate and not important, sometimes my ignorance amazes me.

I went for a quick win this afternoon.

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It was worn so...

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let's put a new one in, tack welded at the back.

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Right, where's the bits,

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alles in ordnung.

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Grease nipple heaven.

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Just waiting for some new bolts to fasten it on.

Nice job.

Great work, strong spirit!


I have restored two 2CV's. So why is it, EVERY time I read threads like this with lots of photos by people restoring 2CV's, I really wanna do another one?
(Luckily I do have another project, my -58. So when the time is right....)