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MYYNNISSÄ: Dodge Ram Van B350 Maxivan

For sale or trade to a motorboat!

Dodge Ram Van B350 Maxivan. Vaihto moottoriveneeseen tai suora myynti. Leimattu 06.05.2014. Yhteydenotot: beasthon@gmail.com

And there He is. Inspected and valid for road for year again! I am so happy. My work for this was not in vain.I will soon update Dodge page and show what I did for front end ball joints. Inspector was an older guy and they are usually better than younger. Many times younger guys don´t understand, that car which is a little bit older can not be in same condition as brand new is. Also I have noticed that those younger inspectors have tendency to use their "god power" more willingly than older inspectors. Anyway. Now everything is fine with this, but I have started to feel that I want to have a boat! Maybe I´ll try to trade this for some small motorboat..have to see.

Today I have re-inspection with my Dodge Maxivan. I have changed/serviced all ball joints at front and tightened rear brakes (those were main things, why it did not pass last time) + some other little things. Have to see if I have forgot something or is everything ok.

Many times, even when you fix everything, if inspector is asshole, your car won´t pass. That is how it goes. If inspector have a nice day, you can get pass, even you have some minor weaknesses in your car. Of course it should not be that way, but it is. Also they can find different problems at different offices. Many times inspectors use pure arbitrariness in their decisions, if car will pass or not.

Some of them might not have authority towards anyone at life outside their job, so they act and think as they are somekind of gods, because they can decide if someones car can be driven at public streets! I hope that today has been good day this far for inspector who is going to inspect my car. Maybe I bring him flowers that he feels that he is loved.

My Dodge did NOT pass the inspection. Reasons were:

- left upper ball joint have to be changed
- both tie rod ends have to be changed
- right brake at back is not taking enough

Not bad! Also there was strange thing that showed up. The pollution test, which I did at another place was not valid! Now the inspection guy said, that I have to make it again at THEIR place and pay 17€ for that or otherwise he will fail whole inspection right away. Ok. He took it, and it passed again. There were minor difference in oxygen level with this test compared to earlier. Still I wonder how this went like it went. I should have said him that he inspects the car otherwise and if it fail, why I should bother to take HIS pollution test. But it is too late now. As usual, you understand later, what you should have said. Anyway. Now I have one month to repair those problems. If I don´t my inspection fails and it have to start all over again.

After these things I went to my friends work place and we started to do rear end for Royal Enfield.

Upper tubes are now welded to axle plates and we can continue next friday. It takes long for this rear end to be completed, since this has to be done at my friends workplace, because there they have TIG. Bad thing is that we can use it only at fridays. Still few months to summer...

While my friend was welding, I finalized lower tube mountings, whose I started at home. Look the difference of thickness between old and new. Old are modified from original RE mountings. New are copies of modified originals!

Mounting place

Upper - old, lower -new

Pollution tests passed! Great. Today I have the final inspection. Let´s hope that everything goes fine. There might be problems with brakes and rear shocks, but since I can´t test them properly, I´ll have to wait what inspection guy says.

Pollution test passed certification

Handbrake wires holder fixing begins at 07 a.m.

Handbrake wires holder fixed few hours later. I found one rotted hole from bottom and fixed that too.