Once again I ended this year's driving season for the Lada and now it's time to focus on the P11 again.
First of all, I decided to repair the trailer hook socket holder before it fell off completely. For some reason they are prone to rust away. I just said, fuck it, let's make it out of stainless steel!
I used the water jet cutter that I operate at work to cut the billet. Then I just had to make a 90 degree bend and it was ready to be installed. I even bought a new socket just for the hell of it.
Here's the ready made part.
And here's a couple photos of it installed. I know, I need a better camera.
My next issue was the windshield wiper motor's autopark- function. It basicly stopped the blades where ever it wanted. I had read earlier from the NPOC forum that the whole thing is caused by the original lube gumming up to the contacts. So, nothing that I couldn't handle.
I took the motor off my spare part car and repaired it. For future maintenance, I tapped the old rivet holes with M5 to ease up the dissassembly.
While I was at it, I even repaired my old motor. Now I have a spare part in case of a failure.
I had been searching for a long time the original windshield cowling attachment screws. Luckily my spare part car had them and even the whole cowling was in better condition than mine.
I had plans to replace my LH- driveshaft with the one from my spare part car. Well, eventually I did. Everything was ok until I drove back home from the countryside. I found out that the outer CV- boot had bursted and puked out all the grease. I first thought of purchasing a new outer joint kit, but I came into a conclusion, that it would be smarter to just buy a completely new axle, since I need the car daily. Btw, the repair kit would have costed a bit over half the price of the new axle that I bought.
Now I have new axles made by BGA on both sides. This one came even with a balancing rubber.
So far, that's all I've done. Well, I swapped back to winter tires, but that's another story.