Hi to everyone, I'm happy to see you back on my Volga's page! Unfortunately my old account is either blocked, or I set a ridiculous new paswordfor it which I can't remember, and the forgot_the_password service seems as dead as Michael Jackson. So I've set up a new one.

Here you can read the original Volga's story: http://www.cardomain.com/ride/3141146

I had a car for a year now, and clocked almost 1,000kms on it, though still being road-illegal. I was waiting this summer as hell to start work on it. So I did when I returned home!

Firstly it was the troublesome oil filter that leaked oil everywhere. On this car it isn't a single-use one, but it's constant, as you may find in an old Chevy from the fourties. On a Volga and same period cars, the oil filtration was split into the rough and fine filtration - with both being constant (you had to change paper filter in the fine one) - this is because at that time the best oil you could pour into your car was something like a used Sapphire oil that you may have drowned from a 250k mile ford from the local junkyard - it was truly terrible. Rough oil filter had a handle that you were better to turn sometimes to clean it inside. However, in a result of this, Volga is incredibly tolerble to any oil, just keep that oil pressure above 0.5 kg/cm2, you'll be alright.

Again, the ignition had to be done. I was on my way to a dacha, drivin on a kind of those desert roads from The Car movie, when I suddenly hit a large hump with the car bottom - it stalled for a day, the spark said me a nice good bye. In order to get this done, I had to replace the ignition coil, and delete a stupid ignition control bloc from an unknown later car - it has died as well. Since Volga has a battery ignition, a good old-skool chaffeur that dragged me home with his GAZ-69 jeep has connected a distributor straight to the ignition coil. This thing has started nicely!

Also, I had to replace the original alternator, as it was failing to charge the battery. For it, I got myself a 65amp one from an UAZ 4x4 minibus, running similar engine to mine, also carburetted. It had an integrated charging relay, which turned to be a nightmare, comparing to an undestructible original relay block. I still have a chargin problem, but this tie it's something to do with the wiring - I'l come back to it next summer I hope.

There's more to come, so do enjoy the pictures! :)