For the past four years my DKW Meisterklasse project has languished in my garage. The intervening years were spent caring for elderly relatives, which pretty much occupied all my time. Last year I was made redundant from work and thought at last I would have some time to work on the car. Well, that didn't quite work out as planned as I started a new job sooner than anticipated. I'm back to fulltime work now, but it does pay the bills for my car restorations.
A quick recap is in order. My car was seized at Fremantle Port for breaching Australia's zero tolerance for asbestos. After months of delay, we were required to remove the brakes from the car on the dockside. After I got the car home, I had the car propped up on blocks, removed the wheels, removed the rest of the brake system, the exhaust, fitted new shocks and cleaned up the suspension parts and removed the engine. The engine was rebuilt and refitted and there the project stalled.
A few years ago, I put the wheels back on intending to move the car to a workshop, but I could not fit the right hand rear wheel as the paving had been lifted by tree roots. At any rate, the workshop situation fell through, so the job remained unfinished. A couple of years have passed and now I have the opportunity to move the car to a friend's workshop/warehouse, so it was time to fit that fourth wheel. To do that I needed to remove the rear right fender, which came off surprisingly easily.
Thanks to Axel Kruppa for sourcing a DKW axle dust cap for me.
Propping up the front to remove the blocks."Touch down!"
All four tyres were pretty much dead flat.
I used my bicycle pump to pump up the tyres. It sounds crazy, but I got them to 25 kilopascals. Enough to get the car rolling.
Now ready to roll.
The DKW's new home....
The last update: https://dkwautounionproject.blogspot.com/2023/05/dkw-meisterklasse-project-update.html
