Next day couple of guys from SLCK (Finnish Land Cruiser Club) to make the museum car inspection. In Finland we have this museum car thing. If the car is over 30 years old, original and in good shape it can be registered as museum car. Taxes and insurance is very cheap. Normally this one with back seat would cost about 1200€/year in taxes. Now it has no taxes. Also insurance is 48€/year but it is limited to 30 days of use per year, but no one follows you how much you drive. Or maybe neighbours but no one else. I got good grades from the inspection. 13 "Good" and 23 "Excellent". Grades are "To be corrected", "Fair", "Good" and "Excellent". It was also a bit more serious inspection when a make and modell specific car club does it instead of a generic inspector. I am in the middle.
Next day I had to tackle some oil leak. Made a new gasket for the cover for push rod opening. No leaks from there now.
Then temporary "plates" and waiting for the registration inspection on next day.
Waiting in line. I got it registered. The guys there were quite blown away. Nothing to complain on the road worthy side. I also got back the original register number on plates.
Noticet when driving to the inspection that the turn signal did not return. For got this brown plastic thing.
Then some test drive. Drove fast and got even numbers.
Then started the problems. Rear brakes came hot when driving. I loosened them couple times to get that sorted. After first longer drive it dropped some fluid. Three of the injectors were leaking. New zink coating did harm the sealing surfaces.
New set. First some paint.
While test drive after the change the power steering had some noise again. Steering box had leaked almost all oil out. For some reason the adjusting screw and locking nut was loose. After tightening the leak stopped. After couple drives something dripped again. This time it was gear box oil. Fill and drain plugs were not tight enough. I was afraid to tighten them after I got threads ruined on one plug earlier. But now it seems like no drops from anywhere.
Then to the main event. Previous owner had 60y birthday this saturday. I have waited for the final reveal to this party and it was worth it. It was a surprise for her that i drove with her old car to the party. She was so surprised, happy and moved. Many of the relatives had fun stories from the history, road trips and all other stuff. It was fun to listen and discuss with peolpe and show off the car.
Next steps are to get the car back to painter. There are some dings etc. that needs to be taken care of. After that the original style side decals on. Melber alloy wheels will also come under the car when I gaet those refurbished. Also winch has no wire and drive shaft need bolts. Now I have to drive the car and try to start rely on it on longer trips. All those leakages had taken me down ond the reliability thinking. But I am sure it will build up. Also it is autumn now so it can be that all that driving is done next summer. It is almost ime for winter storage.
Now I want to thank you all who has followed my project, commented and supported me on this journey. It has been fun to share it with this community and maybe give others some hints and motivation to work on their own car.
Thank you! Kiitos!