Every two years a car that is older than 3 years has to get inspection. My Trabant was ready again. I only drove like 700km in the past two years and I did not not expect big trouble. Well, I had a younger Inspector who has not seen many Trabants so far. He defintely asked me, if the right pedal is the pedal for acceleration. Well., as for any other manual driven car.Anyway. He checked the old inspection report which showed nothing. So he wetn under the car and was complaining about the dirty axle boots. Ok, I haven't cleaned them in the past years, but I also did not notice any issue there. So the Trabant failed the first inspection. He just said, clean it all up and check then come back.
So I did that. Well, I found one axle boot to have some broken rubber part. Ok one out of four. So I decided to install new inner ones at the gear box. I wanted to check the gearbox anyway.
I ordered the parts and since I do not have a lifting platform I decided to unmount Motor and Gearbox in my garage. I have done that already three times or so. It went fine. The engine and gearbox arenot that heavy, at least not for me. After removing them I cleaned the engine bay, drained the gearbox oil and resealed the drainscrew. Everthing else looked just fine for a 42 year old car. Some little rust here, a small dent there.Putting the gearbox back was the hardest part, since the axel slipped out a few times. I bought the right grease but the parts have to match on each side and I was sweating a lot :-) After putting the long right axle in, the shorter left one was easier.
After putting the engine back in, put all the hoses, cables to the right places I started the engine and it wookred right at the first attempt. Dagmar and I made a little trip and drove directly to the Inspection..:Which worked fine and I got my sticker :-)
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