First city in North West is named Ulaangom. We set up an appointment on with a welder who invited us to sleep at his court yard fenced in with wooden fences, with a yourt and garage, in the middle of the city.
inside their yourt 
The welding platform
welding the exchaust, that possibly overheated the cilinders and demaged the rings
The next day, a very particular hitch hiker came to us: it's Branislav, or Branio, a Czech traveller studying mongolian , doing his doctorate research about nomadic peoples children in the mountains around Ulanbatar, but broke, looking for a ride. He becomes our interpreter and sometimes babysitter for the next ten days!
After going about 150km further to Narambulag, we find the next welder in his yourt. We arrive late so we are invited to his yourt to await tommorows welding
the Bump stop had to go back in place, and got reinforced.
The swing bar, was so badly displaced, that it was touching the frame, As you see I put a piece of rubber that I found on the road to keep it from bending, as it served as a temporary bump stop. In that day we once again raised the torsion arms making the rear higer, and awaiting again for it to twist back up...
swing arm disassambled
funky wiering system at the welders
the electric welding machine
welding platform and early morning welding
the bus seems higher, but again over and over the pipe holding the torsion rods, keeps twisting up
We arrive at one of the salt lakes, where we get badly stuck in the sand. Luckyly we met earlyer German students on their adventure ride , with their lada Niva, who got us out
once free of sand, we continue to sleep on open step, now the nights are getting windy and nights colder...
Once in Songino, we disassemble tottaly the torsion arm pipe, to do the final and definitive welding. Here you see just how badly the torsion arm tube is twisted! Everywhere where it was welded, it litterally peals off!
We also decided to reposition the swing axel
Welder at work, for 2 days
unfortunatelly the extensive welding with the unexperianced welder didnt help the engine. We suspect that its after this that the rings went bad. The engine started to smoke and smoldering the spark plugs to the point that they wouldnt spark
after 10 days we see the first forests
trees have to be though to survive here
Dust everywhere! even inside the carburator. It was not rust but fine dust particles that somehow ended up in the fuel. Muddy
nic, tylko sanki
spark plug very dirty after only 20km looses a spark
playing with Elios while the spark plugs luquid metal drys 
getting a pull up over the mountain pass, spark plugs just arent holding under preassure, and 2 blown out spark plugs are 1 too much
Elios does his part in getting the bus from being stuck
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