GtrekTrophy - Stage One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzpKfhKgIN4&list=UUAMyyuQQLt6Tmty3Z-7nsCg&index=2

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GtrekTrophy

Team "Moderskeppet" is ready to take on the opposition in this season's competition!

After work

A pleasant way to spend an hour after work.
torsdagsträning

alignment

Wheel alignment, the proffessional way. My way ate the road tires...

Lunch

Today I had lunch with a friend who has a great taste in cars.

wire

Only minor cutting needed. Discrete, well as discrete I can make it. With a black cover over it will be almost invisible.

Removing the cover from the controlbox made it possible to slip id down the jack box.

4x4 and 2x1 just as fun

Måns and Hugo played with their micro machines while Klas and I sorted his electrical problems. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxX_fTazr_c&feature=plcp

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for sale

Soft Challenge

Ready for a day of competition

On our way to the first set of special tasks

Måns, the co-driver, runs around to check for obstacles.

Lunch with the co-driver

...almost there...

peek a boooo

This should be Epsom Green.

Take a brake!

I knew I had driven a little to far with a bad back brake, but that it was so bad that the pipe gave in was unexpected. What I first thought was an easy fix (a bad hose) showed to be a lot more.

Starting with the pipe, I first thought about a joint somewhere in the rear, but since it's so easy to draw it the whole way up to the front, I did so.

Then came the new hose.

Finally, so I thought, a little massage of the yoke and we would be on our way again. But the piston was stuck. I mean, stuck! First I brought the yoke to my workbench, but I could do little. After a while I gave in and went to Daniel, again, who was able to push out the piston with high pressure grease. Air didn't work. He then polished everything into new and mounted new seals.

And the braking? What a difference!

Greenies

Could there be anything more beautiful than an Epsom Green car?

Well, two Epsom Greenies! :)

New steering rod (already mounted).

New rear brake hose.

New gaskets for the rear breakes.

Eating prop shafts

They lasted for about a year, my u-joints. Vibrations again. Bad joint in the double link. This time I went for a heavy duty joint, but of course when working with the shaft I saw that the other two joints also were sloppy. So, I will probably need to take it down soon again...