At last, some action again

It's been a long time since I worked on the Bleu Lord. In the last weeks i finally found some spare time to spent some quality time with the bleu SW. In the mean time  I was a kind of busy with my work and my family, and other things and so.
In the last few months I looked for a solution to dismantle the wheels and the front suspension, cq subframe. The simple way was to buy a 25 euro socket to dismount the wheel and lay aside the expensive socket for 10 years or longer. No, since this is a low budget an long time restoration project, I chose, better, was offered another solution. My neighbour Mike, the motorcycle mechanic, offered me a 36 mm ring spanner he specially brought from his work. Well even thsi thing didn't realy fit exactly, so we had to make it fit by grinding the outer rims of the spanner. Low cost, low effort, highest satisfaction.
So my suspensionpart are now sanded, put in Brunoxanticorrosion stuff and painted with Action-black matt spraycan paint.
I'm happy again. Next week checking the front brakes, changing the brake tubes and what comes roudn, and maybe I'll be driving in the summer.

Hmmm.

I had a little help from my daughter, but she hit the spanner too hard and the helping time was over.

Parts and fractions of the front left suspension

standard subframe bar has to go for the QV-substitute which is lying in my garage for quite a (too) long time.

Mike the mechanic on his custom built yamaha british green racer.

Quiet?

It's been a long time since I worked on my Sportwagon. The weather is too cold for me to stumble around in my garage. At the end it is a hobby and is supposed to be fun. Meanwhile I picked up my job full time. Also we have a new time consumer, Pip. The little rascal keeps the spirits high in our home.

Last week the 146 passed it's annual check (APK) without problems. I didn't expect any, by the way. It is suffering hard in our never ending winter. In our country the authorities use agressive alkaline salt to keep the streets free from ice, and that's not pleasant when you own a classic vehicle. The 146 isn't that classic but it's suffering hard under these conditions. This summer I'd have to check the underbody for corrosion an treat it with some anti-corrosion stuff.

Blue Lord is resting in our garage. Still hadn't the courage to check up the ignition lock.
My plans for the warmer days are to clean up the underbody completely and to restore the subframe and front suspension elements. These are the last pieces that haven't been checked. So I suppose the car will be ready after that. Will it really?

Winter depression

Well, work is still. Winter is around, funding is zero, ambition below. Some plans are made, but for the warmer time of the year.

Yesterday it even crossed my mind to swap the engine this year. But before that, the old engine has to be extruded, the engine bay derusted, i'd like to derust and prepare the front subframe and suspension, and then mount the 1.7 QV. Alas that block has to be revised before putting to work in the blue lord. So that'll have to wait. But the derusting an restoring the subframe can be done. Later.

In the meanwhile, the block can function as undercase for my livingroom table (this is a 16V block btw).

Oh. Since our labrador is dead, we miss the daily outdoor event of walking the dog. So we looked for another dog. Before we got Meckie, we looked for a Bracco Italiano and now we've found one. In some weeks we can fetch it. This little buzzer will surely energize my project.