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..