Day 16: taking it easy again.

I was tired today as was Damae. We got up early to get Damae off to the train station. It was bitterly cold and the Dyane need much more choke than usual. I was a being a bit thick today so I stalled the engine when reversing and then a few seconds later when moving forwards. After doing groceries and being lazy I finally got round to doing something on the Dyane for the APK at about five. The cables that allow you to adjust the headlamp height from the driver's seat had been removed by the time we bought the car. But today I fitted new ones.

Type2 rear quarter repair

In the end I had to replace one headlamp bowl with a good second hand one. The other replacement headlamp bowl was a right hand one and I needed a left hand one. So I just removed the cable and fitted it to the existing headlamp.

The result is pleasing to me. If you look carefully you can see the difference between the low position (left) and the high position (right). This is most obvious if you look at where the brick wall is lit up on the right hand side of each picture. I'm quite chuffed 🙂

Tomorrow I have to tidy up the garage a bit and get organised for the next phase of work on the van. I'm tempted to fettle the new rear bumper seeing as the bumper brackets are finished. The brackets need to be mounted on the van to do this. The bumpers have hidden captive nuts. These will have ground off and then holes have to be drilled in the bumper in exactly the right places. Measure twice cut once is the old adage. I'm sure I'll be measuring more than twice.

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1 Response to Day 16: taking it easy again.

  1. anonymous says:

    mama writes:

    I enjoy reading your van stories! Measure twice, cut once reminds me of my mama (your baka) when she measured once and cut at once sewing a slip, and inspite of me and Tuga yelling that she was cutting wrong, she caried on, and saw it only when she made a mistake! We all had a good laugh but she had a job of sewing a piece of material where she cut too much! Poor mama! Except it would be much harder to do that to a meatl piece of course!

    You are doing a wonderful job, son, I am so impressed, and I do like this old thing… many memories!

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