… and feeling like in Africa already. Its 3am, just finished mounting the gearbox again. One day to start.

Needless to say we ran into some troubles fixing the clutch. First the gearbox was stuck, we needed 4 people and massive tools to remove it. Then it turned out that the release bearing was damaged because of a broken spring was is supposed to hold it in place. A 3 EUR part, but not in stock in Austria.

Now I am waiting for the spring to arrive, Nissan say it is expected tomorrow. Then we still have to install the 200kg gearbox (see below) again.

We purchased the last items of the irrigation system on Tuesday an Janos, my teammate, delivered everything to the storage today. The cardboard box behind Janos contains the solar panels. The pipes, the pump, fittings, valves, cables, and electronics are all packed up on the pallet on the left.You can also see the rack for the solar panels in the front on the floor.

The bad news of the day is that the release bearing of the clutch of our car has developed a strange noise during the last days. The car is in the garage again, to replace the bearing the whole gearbox has to be removed.