January 29, 2018 – SPHERES!

Decided to remove and cleanup the spheres (4 suspension, 1 main accumulator, 1 brake accumulator) in preparation to have them recharged or rebuilt as needed. I’ll be taking them to a friend’s house in Seattle in a couple of days to have that work done (he has the equipment to deal with Citroen spheres). Here […]

January 27, 2018 – Cleaning – Heater Blower Housing area

Today I disassembled and cleaned up the blower motor housing. Before cleaning – it looked like this: You can see the intake grill and a rectangular bracket sitting next to it – the bracket is used to attach the two rearmost bolts holding the unit to the car – it was held by rivets that […]

January 25, 2018 – Cleaning!

Spent part of today finishing up the the pedal box area. I got a replacement clutch pedal pad as the original had wear and just didn’t look nice – I went for one with the Maserati trident on it: I repainted the clutch arm and installed the replacement gas pedal I got from David Hume […]

January 2018 – Dashboard cleanup and re-installation

While David Hume is working on the engine (and steering rack) for me, I have been removing, cleaning and reinstalling the dashboard area of the car. I disassembled, removed and cleaned up the air conditioning evaporator housing (the shiny black box on the right in the picture below) as well as the air distribution […]

Mid-December 2017 thru early-January 2018 – Mechanical work

David Hume sent more pictures as he progressed with disassembly and assessment of the engine. All 6 cylinders had rust spots in them, and the one with the headless exhaust valve, had a great deal. The pistons however, are all in reasonably good shape so, we’ll be replacing rings and cylinders (aka “sleeves”) but retaining […]