This pair of Triumph ITB's will arrive during next week. Will be adapted to the Doppel engine during the winter.

Scored two sets of these Triumph Sprint ST 955i throttle bodies from UK.

Back in the garage again.

The -58 doors fitted into the -67 cab. The transformation may begin!


Guess if I was surprised when I just for fun tested the Porsche Diesel Tractor (3cyl. 2,5L) valves into the Porsche 911 (6cy. 2,0L) engine heads. They fit perfectly!! :)

Second carb torn down... Just as I was worried.. The spring in one of the acceleratorpumps had rusted out totally... Now I have to try and find new ones somewhere. I might find some at ebay.. but that is probably all six so I'll probably replace them all...

New Running boards for the Hebster. Same manufactor and shape as the ones on Christian Grundmann's -38 recieved.

New lower doorpanels for the Hebster from the same manufactor.

Top of the second Zenith cleaned and reassembled. Now the bottom needs the same attention as the first one too.

Lots of oxidation down there in one of the barrels, but less than in the first zenith though..

All cylinders and pistons fitted including pistonrings. Now it is time for the cylinderheads.
The heads still are under work getting refurbished before mount,

Deckheight measured on all cylinders and numberone finally mounted permanently. Just have to fit the rings on the two remaining pistons and push on the cylinders. Then it's time to mount the heads.

No pictures for now but you get the picture from the previous post.

First piston and cylinder ready for deckheight measuring. The Porsche Schlepper is getting closer... :)

Second Zenith 40TIN getting disassembled.



Porsche flatsix crankcase degreased and paintstripped.
There's the Ford 1936 Pickup Flathead V8 upside down waiting for better days...

Porsche vs. Porsche...
One cylinder from a Porsche 911T 2,0L and one from a Porsche Diesel Super 308 2,5L... :D

901/03 Crankcase from a -68 Porsche 911T. ;) Next for this is to remove the flakeing silvermetallic rattlecan paint and clean it up both inside and outside and prepare for an upcoming assembly of the enginecase.

All Saints evening.

Celebrating All Saints Evening over here tonight. (Not Halloween...) ;)
We light candles for the memories of our loved ones both at home and out by the memorialstones.

Camgear cover getting paintstripped.

Porsche diesel degreasing...

Two of the tre cylinders getting degreased... Have been collecting a lot of dirt and grease during the years....

"The Porsche workshop"
One Diesel head getting cleaned and six connecting rods getting rebushed in the piston end..

One done, one more to go!

Stripping...

Applied a layer of Paintstripper on the first manifold. Will wash off the layers of spraycan silver and repaint in semigloss black again.

First Zenith done! Woohoo!! What a milestone!!! :)

Today I got an idea and checked the beetle Solexes for the same bolt as I had a thought they might be the same as I had read somewhere that Zenith carbs use some same parts as Solexes. Well, even the venturis in these Zeniths says Solex... :)

Anyways the bolts were identical so I took 3 bolts from a scrap Solex to replace the ones I've managed to loose during the 3 years I've restored this first one...

Now I just need to get new fresh screws to tighten the lid to the body. Tomorrow I'll finish the first one.

Floodneedles and floats mounted.

Brand new floodneedles mounted and floats in place. Getting there finally!

The breathing devices for the Crewcab.

I started the restoration of this Zenith 40 TIN way back in 2008 but due to some "backfiring" when I tried to remove the third idle mixture needle. It broke in half leaving the needletip in the hole... Got it drilled out a few years ago but never got back into trying to fix the threads until this week. Tested using JB-Weld and it worked great! Now the carb have 3 workin idlemixture needles again!..

Nyt siinä on uudet kierteet JB-Weldin avulla..