| Late summer/autumn 2010 |
What can I say? I did take the car into use, but discovered serious oil leak from the gearbox. Fitted new oil seal to the input shaft, still leaked.
After some discussion on the Yahoo Europa group, the solution came clear: a bearing was missing from the center of the flywheel, into which the input shaft to the gearbox would rest when the clutch was disengaged.
This was in the middle of August, and I took several testrides with the car, and started to enjoy it more and more. Had the autumns last ride in the car on Oct 24st. A temperature of 8 deg Celcious below zero, and no heater.. Freeeeeeezing cold. So, now the car is in the garage for the winter, and hopefully (?) the iterms mentioned above will be fixed before mid-April and season of 2011. A big thanks to all the guys on the Europa list for their patient and clever answers to all my stupid question during the latest 12 years?.. |
| May 23rd,
2010
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The testdrive!!!
Got the car licensed two weeks ago, but as the electrical oil pressure gauge didn't work, I decided to rebuild it into mechanical reading. Thanks to Steve Veries from the Lotus Europa Yahoo mailing list, I got the correct parts. These were fitted yesterday, and I took the car for a short spin. At a local petrolstation, I discovered petrol pouring from the tank when filling :-( So, I rode back home, just to find that it was leaking from where the
petrol gauge is connected.
Everything worked just perfect, though after a few kilometers I felt the smell of 'warm rustproofing oil' Guess this is due to my internal treating the chassis - and when the heating hoses get warm, the oil kind of 'melt'. Hope this will disappear... A few pictures from todays work can be found here. I'm a very happy man today. Nearly 12 years after the car was bought
from Phile Newey Sports Cars of La Habra, California (and was told to be in 'near mint condition' and 'used as a daily driver'), I finally took the first ride. It's been a long
and winding road, with many hard days night's, but finally I'm at the finish
line.
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| Two videoes from the first ever testride Sorry for speaking norwegian, but video was made for private use... - |
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| Jan - May 2010 | Nothing much has happened, really.
Have had several attempts to get the car licensed - every time there has been some paper missing. Finally, on May 7th 2010 the control station finally accepted my papers, and the car got it license. Now I'll have to wait for parts, to rebuild the oil pressure gauge to mechanical reading.
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