Abby

[cavey]

Just a bit reluctant to start a project topic, since there's not much to tell yet. And she's in pretty good knick, so not too much work has to be done.

But anyways... pictures will come later, way later Just felt the need to start a page, tell something about the maintenance and future upgrades.

Last saturday I went over to a friend to change the timing belt and tension pulley. Following the instructions from Mux and the 4AGE manual, we managed to change the belt in a bloody 6 hour shift.

It was hell to get the pulley of without a pulley-puller. Various contraptions weren't strong enough and just buckled under the tension. A trip to the car-parts-shop didn't help either (bought pulley puller didn't work on the 4-spoke pulley from the 4AGE). Finally, we managed to find some metal L-bar, cut it up, drilled holes, and that piece was finally strong enough to take the tension.

Only thing is, there's a small bolt wedged within the crank-space. It was used as some kind of spacer since we didn't have long enough bolts. Luckily it is wedged pretty much dead-center, but still, kinda sucks. Hopefully it doesn't make the crank that unbalanced (since the pulley goes over the same area, and that pully is unbalanced).

Yeah, long story No pictures of the process unfortunately. No digicam's available (and my cellphone takes crappy crappy pictures (noise)).

Oh, yeah, the abby bit... well, had a talk with my girlfriend the other day, and we came up with names for the car. We gave her two names, but unfortunately we both forgot the second name. I just remember the second one started with E. AE... cheesy I know. Anyways Abby (abigail) stuck. I thought the car kinda resembled the fiery nature of Abby Sciuto (NCIS ).

So there, Abby, cavey's 86


taken a couple of weeks ago @metropolis, antwerp (carpark )
Cellphone, crappy sensor... lots of noise