T3 Race Taxi: Painting the doors

Yesterday we sanded and painted the doors. We also washed the car.

I don't really have much to say about how we spent the the time yesterday, feels like not much was done... Painting is so time consuming. Everything has to be gone through, filled and sanded, and the parts also have to be clean. You have to be really careful when handling big parts like these, because if you ding or dent anything, you have to start over. Even making and cleaning the space where to paint takes so much time, not to mention cleaning the tools and space afterwards.

It feels like time spent is tripled when you remove a part for painting. Maybe it's because when you remove the part, you have to concentrate on something smaller, and that makes you cut less corners in the process.

We also got to loan a pressure washer, because we have loaned our own. Now the car is clean and ready to be taken inside if necessary.

Much time was also spent in the electrical problems on the other Multivan. The second oil pressure sensor is probably broken. When you get up to speed and revs rise over 2500 the oil pressure light starts blinking and a summer goes on. We tried to make some kind of quick fix so we could drive the car today without the summer on all the time and with the other oil pressure sensor still functional. We removed the wire going to the sensor that's broken and we also grounded the wire, neither made a difference! The simple solution was to remove the electrical connector going to the instrument panel... Today we'll have to change the sensor to see if that helps. Hopefully there is nothing wrong in the wiring of the car. Adding one wire elegantly to the car is a pain.

After the evening at the garage we went to see another T3 for spare parts. Our car will be a track car, and it will be driven hard. So we need all kinds of spare parts like suspension parts, drive shafts, gear boxes etc. in case something bends or breaks.