So, for those of you who don't know, my other hobby is triathlon. Monday is the day when the pool here opens earlier so I got up and went for a nice swim yesterday. While I was in town, I stopped at the parts shop to get the bolts that I thought I needed and some sandpaper so I can start attacking Lily's "problem areas". I'd taken Jon's jeep because Lily's registration has expired and when I got home, I found my downstairs neighbor, the one who helped me on Friday, in the garage putting all of the engine tin back in place! He had gotten the shorter bolts to work after all.
Next, he asks if I have time to work on the windshield wipers. Not bein particularly...um...employed at the moment, I said sure. At this point I should say that my neighbors share a two-car garage with us and that Horst is a very recently retired mechanic. Thus, it is perfectly normal for him to be in my garage and I'm sure that he is much better at repairing stuff. I try to help, but when I can't help, I watch and learn!
So we starter on the wiper problem. The first problem is that the springs which hold the magnets at the top of the motor in place are pretty worn out. We decide to replace them so I drive to the VW dealer in Bad Windsheim because the do occasionally have really old parts in stock. No such luck this time, but the guy at the desk takes out his pen and pulls the spring out of it. He points out that these two springs are very similar. I love German ingenuity!
Back home, we find three suitable springs and reassemble the motor. Jon calls so I go upstairs and half an hour later I come back to find everything almost reinstalled. The es for the wipers are sticking, but they seem to be turning some and so far the fuse hasn't exploded yet!
On a side note, the desktop PC I was using to write has stopped working . I'm waiting for the system disk to arrive so I can make it work again. Until then, I probably won't post many pictures and spelling, punctuation, and formatting will probably all suffer.
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