A lot of work this week at the Workshop: parts for stripping, sandblasting returns, completed paint jobs, arrival of pretty parts to restore... and also some trouble with a few engines.
First, two 3800 Solexes repainted as new: one in black, the other in blue.
A "classic" 3800 Solex and a blue luxury one will soon be back on the roads in spring!
A new "103 Land project" is also underway, progressing little by little, the parts are now completely stripped.
Next step: sandblasting before a beautiful finish in green and matte black powder coating!
To be continued …
And finally, the arrival in "kit" of a very beautiful "blue"
It will also start the "process": stripping, sandblasting, micro-blasting before getting a new powder-coated paint.
To be continued as well…
Alongside the good surprises, there are also bad ones.
Here, for example, is a Solex 3800 engine that we need to restore... it all started with the dismantling of the air filter cover where we found this wretched foam filter that should be totally banned!!!!!!
Please! Don't buy this unspeakable rubbish that disintegrates at the slightest contact with gasoline!
As we dismantled it, we "followed" the foam bits "ingested" by the engine... to arrive at this result:
No comment 🙁
Another bad surprise: the restoration of this Solex 2200 engine.
"It's not moving," its owner told me... I can believe it :)
A small zoom on the carbon at the outlet:
It's sure that by adding such a bottleneck, it can't push very hard!!
A natural catalytic converter, in short :)
But it doesn't stop there!
A small view of the underside of the crankcase...
Yes, you saw correctly... it's dried mud... in fact, we're looking at 60 years of fossilized mud under the engine... to the point that it formed a new crankcase!
You can also guess how well the roller could work!!!
Some good and some not so good, but always a pleasure! :)