At the beginning of the week, we were once again allowed to park our WENNE in the yard of our friends from OG Kustom to investigate our oil loss.
The first thing Alex had to do was to implement his idea so that we could pull the cabin backwards. To do this, he flexed, welded and made 4 supports with rollers. The fixtures into which they are then inserted already exist in the cabin. These are supposedly there so that the cabin can stand freely without the vehicle. The idea is to crank the cabin up so high that it can be pulled backwards with the help of Alex’s construction of the lintels.
On the left side, the cranking up worked perfectly. Unfortunately, on the right-hand side, the tube pushed the existing guide, into which we could slide our support, upwards and into the floor of the cabin. Fortunately, we noticed it early on. We assume that this device for removing the cabin was not present from the factory, but was installed by someone afterwards. Unfortunately, this was probably not done correctly. In any case, Alex’s idea was great, but it wasn’t possible to implement it. Perhaps one day we will feel like taking on this and building a stable and correct construction.
Alex had a few other ideas that we tried to implement. After many, many hours, with a lot of patience and sweat, Alex and our junior managed to pull the living cabin back so far that we could tilt the cab.
As we had to improvise a lot, the work was not carried out in a completely safety-compliant manner, but rather negligently, so we won’t go into detail about how we finally managed it. Unfortunately, we still don’t know how we’re going to get it back to the front. But we will certainly come up with an idea 😉 Now Alex can take care of our oil leak.
Now we can finally take a look at the heart of WENNE.
It’s great that our junior has a little knowledge of Deutz engines. He and Alex quickly established that the oil loss was just a leaky valve cover gasket.
Until the parts are delivered, Alex has found enough other work to do.
A few broken brackets need to be replaced.
We also replace various old seals at the same time. Like this paper gasket, for example.
Alex discovered that the crankcase breather was also leaking. After unsuccessful attempts to remove this breather, we enlisted the help of our son’s expertise. A few minutes later, the breather was removed, then Alex cleaned it, fitted a new seal and successfully reinstalled it.
Of course we are always under the watchful eye of the house cat Milki 🙂
Father and son talking shop 🙂
I have already finished a few creations from my hobby.
I think these doilies have turned out really beautifully and are always a great gift idea. I’m going to make a few more different things and maybe I can sell them along the way. A little pocket money never hurts and even though I really enjoy it, I can’t keep everything for myself.
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