A rusty Ami

 Ami with Rusty paint

David Stephen Hockney has painted his car with rusty paint. Looks great in my opinon.

The body is made of plastic, but looks rusty. Rims could have been better but otherwise a very good job. The radiation stickers also adds some mystery.

Fallout in the rear window, love it.

The front bumper is from a mark 1 Mini Cooper.

Electric car Citroen Ami with Rusty paint

Can you sleep in a BMW i3, summer camp?

Yes, if you are not too long.

Report says that if you are less than 179 cm you can sleep diagonal in your car.

Ready for summer camping in BMW i3

Car seat folds flat and then use som kind of box of proportional height.

Photo  J. Treud

Super Soco Tc max use DNM shock Absorbers

Looking for better suspension on your Super Soco Tc Max? The original is pretty bad and cheap. 

So lets look at Suspension improvement:

TC Stock shock have 30mm of travel with 260mm eye to eye... Change it to 270mm. There is 270mm DNM for pitbikes, with gas expansion chamber on hose, so you can mount it to the frame. You will have nice progressive suspension with longer travel (circa 50mm).

DNM offers shocks from low to medium pricetag. They are not Öhlins, but they have really good price to performance ratio. And overall are really good if used properly.

DNM,  They are not Öhlins, but they have really good price.

As Supersoco TC seems to be mix of pitbike (front and rear suspension)

 Gas expansion chamber on hose.

Nissan leaf with many miles

Steve Marsh He recently crossed a new milestone of 150,000 miles (over 240,000 km) driven in his 2011 Nissan LEAF (with the original battery)). This in Washington state.
Source: https://insideevs.com/news/331004/exclusive-interview-with-steve-marsh-as-his-nissan-leaf-hits-150000-miles-original-battery/

"Reliability – very good, if not excellent.  That being said, There is no more regeneration – going down a hill in ecomode is like being in neutral.  From a start, it accelerates like there is a parachute hanging out the back while in ecomode but nothing goes back into the battery.

The only other issue I have had is that the brakes grab and release when applied lightly while the battery is in LB or VLB.  I attributed this to trying to regenerate but no place for the energy to go.  I haven’t taken it in to be looked at because it is only very apparent during specific circumstances that are repeatable." - Steve Marsh

Battery still works but holds 7 out of 12 battery capacity bars (below 60% of capacity) and is rated at 147 GIDS - so more precisely 52% of the original capacity remains.

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Source: 

Here are some more examples of Nissan Leaf running high mileage.

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A 2015 Nissan Leaf with 120,000 miles. Source.

How to remove bearing with blow torch / and grease or bar soap

How to remove bearing

Why? You wanna replace the bearing in your motor perhaps.

Using a torch: "Common practise"

I would protect the winding, even though the probably can take 140 degress before melting.

Use a blow torch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs9MWwlMOpQ

From video above.

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From Youtube channel AvE,  video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w62c4NQDwP0

Us a torch to make tool to try to pull it out

Next method:

The grease gives hydraulic pressure as you force it in, and the rag serves not only to wick the grease in, but to seal the shaft so the pressure works on the bearing. Genius!

Push in grease into the bearing that you can't get out.

After full of grease, add small strips into the center hole

Use a tight drill or something similar to tap into the center hole.

Hopefully the bearing will come out.

This is how it looks when out.

Use bar soap, shave pieces slide them in and tap drift.. no rags needed works every time

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Insert bearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBTVLz_iG9s

Dry ice / solid carbon dioxide:

Can be made using a CO2 fire extinguiser, us gloves and protect yourself with clothes and so on.

Then put a cap/hat on the hose and try catch it when you turn it on.

Aluminium plate below will pull the heat away from it.

It's shrinking.. Measuring

"Bearings should never be heated too much, even the ones without sealing. INA recommends 100°C for mounting.  120°C  should not be exceeded to avoid a loss of strength of the bearing races. In most cases it is sufficient to heat one part to 100°C and to cool the other part in the refrigerator to -25°C."
 - B. Gubanka

 Diesel heater in Renault Zoe

P. Silverplats is living high up north in Sweden:

"Fixed extra heater in my Zoe52, good and have it up here when it gets freezing cold."

When you live at the top of Sweden where it is -25 to -40 degress celcius right now.

It's a Webasto Diesel Heater.

Nice installation of dieseltank and diesel heater on Renault Zoe52, took a couple of days.  

Photo and installation: P. Silverplats

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"Can refuel 10-15% petrol in the diesel tank if I want to be sure that the heater will be able to start in -25 and colder." -  J. P. Rudolfsson

Some say that the diesel heaters you have on trucks only work with diesel / HVO, not RME or frying oil.

Dacia Spring, cheap electric car

 

We need desperately good, functional, and cheap electric cars here!

The Dacia Spring is based on Renault Kwid, launched 2015 for the Indian market. A very cheap model.

It becamed updated with better safety a few years lator for the Chinese market. They also improved the technology and gave it a fully electric power source.

Aircooled batterypack.

You can hear the servo motors when turning the steering wheel.

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Chinese almost perfect city car

Leap T03 (leapmotors)

55 kW Motor, topspeed limited to 62 mph or 100 km/h

36.5 kWh battery

8year or 150 000 km warranty

Liquid cool battery.