It has been a while but busy me was travelling, having fun, and some sorrow.
The sorrow part is that my body slowly getting older, and the illnesses are getting worse.
That said, I had to change a bit in my kind of lifestyle.
We always travelled with our Jeep and Trailer, but unfortunally the...
Last weekend we went out with a friend for three reasons.
Frederique and Andrea did geocaching, together we did nice campoven cooking on the friday and Saturday evening. And i did some tracks on the saturday.
Just a bit of fun not far from home.
This Easter we went on a trip with friends to the north of France and specific near the town of Abbeville.
We found a good campsite for a basecamp and also some tracks in tha area.
So, on the thursdayafternoon we drove down to France and we reached the campsite around 2100 hours.
Setting up...
Lots of things happened lately, worked on the Jeep today for new controll arms rear axle lower ones. Will do the A-frame controll arm upper section sunday or monday.
Did some maintenance to the winch as he let me down during a recovery. It wasnt a problem, just an annoyans. Especially when it...
I do have a great workshop. And Iam very happy with it. But now I did see something on YT which gave me an urge to make it as nice as possible.
So, the shop is getting a new tool wall.
It was this as a tool wall.
and now I am busy with changing it into this.
and now I am busy with the next...
yesterday I took out the rear drive shaft and today I changed my u-joints. Which is if all works out fine a simple easy job.
Both joints are changed, they are factory greased, but I will grease them again now they are fitted.
But first mount the thing under the car.
I ordered a little bump...
After coming home from our trip to Portugal, I had to make some repairs to the car.
First there is the problem with the hand brake. That will be done in a later stadium as I never use that one. The interior of the handbrake drums were rattling and making awfull noises, so I removed that and my...
Our Portugal trip is slowly coming to an end.
Just another three days on the road.
https://www.polarsteps.com/RobertKeim2/8559440-portugal-a-gogo
The whole trip , story and pictures you can find here.
And here are some of the highlights
A birthday party at a pay and play park with some friends. Who can ask for more.
I thank all my OB friends who were able to come and having a great time.
Now it is time for the bigger trip and event.
Portugal here we come.
https://www.polarsteps.com/RobertKeim2/8559440-portugal-a-gogo
This coming weekend we are going for another spin at Funpark Meppen. Just the last training for soft sandy roads and beach conditions.
In the meantime I am working to make the Rig a bit nicer again. The wheels were a bit worn of with the black paint, so a bit of repainting that.
I have a little...
Our latest trip was again to Salisbury Plains and we had a superb weekend out. We left on wednessday, did meet up at Calais Tunnel with Chris and heard that his car wasnt doing all that well already.
But we decided still to push through. Wednessnight we arrived in Woking at Nik and Leanns house...
When you do travelling a lot, sometimes you do have little problems.
Like you have to refurbish and replace a Transfer Case.
With some help we refurbished it, and by myself I replaced it.
4 days of work but no engine and geabox were removed during this event.
the refurbishing part
Had to take...
Hello Wouter,
Contact me if you like to hang out with some OB members here in the Netherlands.
We go often on tour and we have enough knowledge to help you out.
Just pm me and we get in touch.
Growt van Robert
half way the week and yes, we have a bigger trip coming up this weekend.
First of all we are going to the other side of the Netherlands and meet up with some other OB members.
Then we are doing a nice route for two days driving from West to East through the south of the Netherlands.
Doing a bit...
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