Disegno

From Italy it comes, Ravenna. Via Ebay it was ordered. In metall. No plastic fantastic as it came with the Bleu Lord. (I watched a sequal of Star Wars last week, master Yoda is my favourite).

It was a little bit of a gamble, to order this badge. Disegno di Pininfarina it says. And is costed only € 5! There are other badges, with less quality or smaller and more expensive: look here, or here. But I'm content and it fits too!

In the mean while I took a jarr of cleaner and pimped up the exterior. A long evening I worked cleaning the drivers' doors and subsequent side panels, and a part of the roof. There's a strange rough spray over the roof and I tried to sand it with sanding paper. Alas it was too course (1000 grain) and some stripes remained on the car. Another layer of cleaner and some muscle power (I refuse to use a machine, Karate Kid!) to redo the effect. I have to buy 1600 grain to do it carefully and properly.

Finally I changed the clock underlayment strip, just by cutting the protruding end off. A nice layer of black paint and ready (for now). My cellar was tydied up, but I didn't find the proper mark 2 strip.

Yes, from Ravenna it came.

Real designo made in Italy. Better than the original.

Polishing the doors with Commandant 4. 

When the weather is fine, I'll drive it outside and make some proper photographs.

Clock strip below.

Still wasn't able to drive the car to the garagist for a thorough check up. It's almost spring...
Found this one here and here, nice reading. Looks pretty similar to my Tulipwoodracer.

And this is my Tulipwoodracer, which donated the 1.7 dual carbs engine to the Bleu Lord

Meckie loved it.

Was a 1987 Belgian car from Bruxelles

Oh dear, my cellar

Since working on my beloved Bleu Lord I have a spare part backup supply in my cellar. My first Sportwagon ended there in parts, the QV, the cannon, also donated several nice pieces (although I never bothered to move the engine down the stairs). During the process of dismantling the blue one, I stocked the parts in my cellar. When it came to refitting, I looked for the best part I had in stock and fitted it.
So my cellar was my backup supply for major parts. My backup for the minor parts is a glass jar in my garage for the plastic parts, and a wooden box for the metal pieces. Both containers sitting on my workbench. Right under my eyes. My first reaction when looking for little bits is to grab in one of these two.
Sometimes I wasn't able to get the proper parts or they were just broken, because of the wear and tear on these 33's. Then I looked for substitutes via second hand parts or just ordered new parts when it concerned normal wear (tires, belts, clutch, brakepads etc.). Some small bits are almost always available via the three sources. My forsight sometimes gets me parts I'd imagine to use in the future.

So, why couldn't I get the small clambs in my last post? Simple. I didn't look properly. In fact, I didn't look at all. Shame on me! The little clambs were waiting on me in the wooden box. If they could talk, they'd ban me out of the DIY Alfa Romeo Mechanics Club, if it existed and I would've beeen a member.

So yesterday I fitted the clambs under the panel that covers the motor of the windscreen wiper. Check! Then I checked some minor things, like the alarm/ indicator light on the righthand rear side. A failing connection caused a mallfunction. I also bleeded the brakes and the clutch again, the pedal stays spongy though.

The clambs I was looking for desperately, just lay in my own spare parts box, 

right under my very own nose.... (sic!)

Fitting was an easy job

Jar and box on my workbench

Extra jars on the shelve. Maybe I print this photo and hang it on the dashboard.

Looking for a part, just a small one

Looking for a little piece to fix the cover of the wipermotor. 

Does someone have some five of these parts number 9 and 8?

This is the overhauling of the clock out of the QV. It was a pleasant job. 

Hope everything works well now.

Dismantling and cleaning

checking the glasses

cleaning the glasses

checking and sanding the connections

checking the lights

the connectors are often malafide

the 240 kmh clock out of the QV

Just a little spin on my entranceway

The adjustment of the engine is about, so sometimes I start the engine and take the Blue Lord for a little spin on my entranceway. It's enough to put the whole house in a fogg, since the spectators aren't willing to close the door. But hey, it's my 33 that's going out! And listen to that sound...

The clock in the Blue Lord is the clock of a type 3. The speedometer counts to 220, in the QV it goes to 240. Because I want to trim the Blue Lord as it looks like a QV, I want to go all the way. The clock out of my old QV I kept in my cellar. Providence? But the clock wasn't good, the speedoneedle was nervous, and at last it didn't work at all. Now five ( or is it more?) years later I got it out of my cellar and overhauled it.
Some minor adjustments were necessary. The speedo form the 1.3S was a type 3 speedo, it came with a little dome over teh clocks that was closed above the steering wheel. The 'original' QV dome wasa type 2 dome with no closing at the underside. The connectors of the clock however fitted and functioned as changed. Well on my entranceway I only nearly reached the 240 kmh, so the check was'nt complet (haha).

Two screws on both sides to loosen, just above the steering axle.

Lifting the clock after removing the four screws underneath the clock.

The type 3 clock in the 1.3S SW from 1989 comes with the glass before the clocks.

The 240 kmh-clock out of my QV, anno 1987, no glass.

Type 2 clock from above, with the short fitting rods.

Old dome type 2 (below) new dome type 3

The type 2 dome with the side mounting wholes. To fit in in the dash I had to make

new corresponding wholes in the dashboard.

The dome fits, though not perfectly.

The fitting rods of the clock on the front side were too short for the QV-clock. 

I used the ones of the type 3 clock.

The steering wheel adjustment I tightened so the

 wheel didn't come loose anymore while turning a short corner.

Connectors fitted 1 by 1

Type 3 clock, backside

QV, type 2 clock, backside.
I carefully sanded the conncectors and changed all the broken little lamps.

A iron strip of the type 3 clock now still protrudes out of the dash. 

That item I still have to swap. I must have a type 2 strip in my cellar.

I also changed the inner works of my steering wheel to attach it properly to the wheel. 

Some pins had come off in the process of restaration.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. 

Can't move a foot without the little rascall. 

And she likes the Alfa.