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Posted by: Thomas J Bliznik Apr 30 2006, 09:53 AM
Lets start a list of correct 914 Tool Kit parts.
Here's one for a 1973 & 1974 914-4 cly. car (Comments please to confirm??)
Tom
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Posted by: Thomas J Bliznik Apr 30 2006, 11:11 AM
Tool Kit for a 914-6
Tom
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Posted by: sixnotfour Apr 30 2006, 12:30 PM
the 4cyl. kit , did it come with a shaft to use with the plug socket or are you intened to use the screwdriver shaft?
Posted by: ClayPerrine Apr 30 2006, 12:34 PM
the 4cyl. kit , did it come with a shaft to use with the plug socket or are you intened to use the screwdriver shaft?
That's not a plug socket. That is the lug wrench,and the bar at the top fits through the hole in it.
Posted by: sixnotfour Apr 30 2006, 01:01 PM
learn somethin everyday thanks
Posted by: Thomas J Bliznik Apr 30 2006, 02:59 PM
Here's somthing to think about when at a swap meet. Look for trade material pieces (see pics) to help our 914-brothers out.
Next time in the office supply cabinet look for BLACK rubber bands that are about 4" long 5mm thick & about 1/8" thick. Thats usually a hard item to find in a tool kit.
Tom
BTW Nothings for sale (only trade material to my CW sicko friends)
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Posted by: Thomas J Bliznik Apr 30 2006, 03:01 PM
Rubber Band picture dimensions
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Posted by: tod914 Apr 30 2006, 04:57 PM
Tom whats the funcion of the that clip in the 4 kit?
Posted by: Thomas J Bliznik Apr 30 2006, 07:37 PM
Tod,
You mean that thin U-shaped wire with hooks on each end (picture #1)??
It's to pull off hub caps. On plain wheels with hub caps each hub cap has (2) little holes on the outside diameter of the hub cap. The U-clip wire is inserted into the holes, then pulled to remove the hub caps.
Tom
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby Apr 30 2006, 08:08 PM
Tom the 74 kit did not have the bag with the tie, only the thin black plastic polyethylene bag.
I find it odd but my 74 car has that hubcap puller tool too, but in 74 none of the 914s came with hubcaps, they were either alloys or the cross-style steel rims.
Posted by: davep Apr 30 2006, 08:36 PM
Yeah, I'd say the black plastic bag for 1974 and the leatherette bag for 1973. Very early ones got the coarse weave bag. You didn't get the plastic and the leatherette bags together in one kit.
Posted by: 914runnow May 1 2006, 05:21 PM
Kool a 914 site for GeeKs like me...Horray!!
70-71-72-Very early 73's had that vinyl tie bag..
(I think there was smooth grey and a black pattern)
And production date 12/73 or so had the vinyl
'Flip Bag'...(that not much would fit into)...
Earlier tie bag kits had the pliers also included
with them..
Seems the spark plug wrench and small bar for your 73
and later kit is missing.....
The six kits appears to be on the money....
About 6 years ago from A Porsche dealership,
I bought a '914 kit' that was a Supercede #,
and it was 416.00$ And was in between a 6cyl
and 4 cyl kit for items enclosed..Sorry no pics at this time...
Posted by: Poor-sche Lover May 1 2006, 09:01 PM
Why was a rubber band even included in the kit? From looking at the pictures, it seems more like a MacGyver kit to get the car home. "If we wrap the rubber band around the screw driver, and hook up the paper clip to the battery, we can jump across the leads to . . . " But seriously, why a rubber band?
Posted by: Thomas J Bliznik May 1 2006, 09:16 PM
The rubber band was used around the entire outside of the black plastic bag to keep the tools from falling out.
Remember the black plastic bag was for the 1974 model year.
Tom
Posted by: sixerdon May 2 2006, 07:27 AM
I've got the plastic bag for my '75.
Tom, what is the make up of the "6" tool kit showing the spare fuses? It looks like a vacuum pack kit in the picture. The ones I've see were loose in a small clear plastic bag. Can you confirm?
Thanks,
Don
Posted by: Pat Garvey May 2 2006, 09:29 AM
My '72 tool kit, hermetically sealed - so no photo, contains:
Towing eye
Combination screwdriver
Hub cap removal tool
8x13 mm open end wrench
Socket for wheel bolts
Socket for plugs
Bar for wheel bolt socket
Bar for spark plug socket
Vinyl, strap-tie bag
My bag is light brown & the only one I've seen in that color - all the others have been gray. Just proves my belief that when a parts bin was empty, they grabbed whatever was handy. The kit is as-delivered & I am the original owner.
Posted by: tod914 May 2 2006, 07:39 PM
Pat could you post some pictures of your car at some point? Looks incredable in your avatar. 
Posted by: Jeff Bowlsby May 2 2006, 07:46 PM
Go Here Tod:
http://www.914purists.com/
Posted by: tod914 May 2 2006, 07:54 PM
Very Impressive car ..... but is that a bosch blue coil i see in the engine bay with a cadium plated holder instead of black? -.5 of a point Pat 
Posted by: BS Chairman May 2 2006, 08:21 PM
I've got the plastic bag for my '75.
Tom, what is the make up of the "6" tool kit showing the spare fuses? It looks like a vacuum pack kit in the picture. The ones I've see were loose in a small clear plastic bag. Can you confirm?
Thanks,
Don
Don,
Thats my tool kit (6) and yes they are vacuum pack fuses only because thats what I had to put in it and make it complete. I have'nt seen a factoy kit so I did my best from pics! Close to factory as to take 2nd at parade 2005.
Gary BS Chairman
Posted by: Lou W May 2 2006, 11:04 PM
Tom the 74 kit did not have the bag with the tie, only the thin black plastic polyethylene bag.
I find it odd but my 74 car has that hubcap puller tool too, but in 74 none of the 914s came with hubcaps, they were either alloys or the cross-style steel rims.
I found the hubcap puller in my kit too.
Posted by: sixerdon May 3 2006, 06:37 AM
I've got the plastic bag for my '75.
Tom, what is the make up of the "6" tool kit showing the spare fuses? It looks like a vacuum pack kit in the picture. The ones I've see were loose in a small clear plastic bag. Can you confirm?
Thanks,
Don
Don,
Thats my tool kit (6) and yes they are vacuum pack fuses only because thats what I had to put in it and make it complete. I have'nt seen a factoy kit so I did my best from pics! Close to factory as to take 2nd at parade 2005.
Gary BS Chairman
Thanks Gary,
The original fuse pack is very elusive. I have 3 "six" tool kits complete sans the fuse pack. Do you know if the 911 of that era had the fuse pack?
Don
Posted by: Pat Garvey May 3 2006, 03:37 PM
Very Impressive car ..... but is that a bosch blue coil i see in the engine bay with a cadium plated holder instead of black? -.5 of a point Pat
Shhhh! Yes and yes. BUT, I've never been gigged for it. When, and if, I do they'll both go. Look closely, you'll see "other" personal things, some of which come off before I enter an event.
Posted by: 1970 Neun vierzehn May 4 2006, 04:52 PM
Why do you(all) keep including the towing eye in your tool kit? If you do that, shouldn't the jack be included as well? My towing eye was never part of the tools in the (dark gray leatherette w/red leather tie) kit on my '70 /4.
Posted by: 1970 Neun vierzehn Feb 19 2007, 06:17 PM
Tool kit for a 1970 /4 delivered April 1970. Why there are two 13/8mm wrenches, I have no idea. Towing "eye" is mounted in front trunk.
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Posted by: Pat Garvey Feb 19 2007, 07:51 PM
Tool kit for a 1970 /4 delivered April 1970. Why there are two 13/8mm wrenches, I have no idea. Towing "eye" is mounted in front trunk.
Maybe you just got a "bonus" from uncle Karmann? Maybe there were twins making up the toolkit? Maybe you got lucky - nothing wrong with free spares!
Posted by: mrgreenjeans Feb 19 2007, 08:05 PM
Tom the 74 kit did not have the bag with the tie, only the thin black plastic polyethylene bag.
I find it odd but my 74 car has that hubcap puller tool too, but in 74 none of the 914s came with hubcaps, they were either alloys or the cross-style steel rims.
I register an affirmative on the black bag with no outer bag, as I have none in my car either, and I believe the thing to have never been messed with or opened, till I got the car, because of where it was found in the car. VERRRY hidden.
Also some food for thought for all yo cross/breed weirdo's like me that are into more than one make. A little secret, some of which many of you already know.
The 2.0 litre Bug Van also had the same thing in its glove box........ssssshhhhh. Its exactly, as I can determine, the same. Kept mine out of my 78 Vanagon, when it went to the big iron oxide pit in the sky, as a kind of pseudo spare. Any one else out there register an affirmative on this ?
mrgreenjeans
Posted by: mrgreenjeans Feb 19 2007, 08:17 PM
Why was a rubber band even included in the kit? From looking at the pictures, it seems more like a MacGyver kit to get the car home. "If we wrap the rubber band around the screw driver, and hook up the paper clip to the battery, we can jump across the leads to . . . " But seriously, why a rubber band?
And this may be becoming a little too cw for you all....but on the black rubber band wrapped around the baggie thingie----(making belief its supposed to be the official tool bag from Porsche); that black band, if memory serves me, as I unwrapped it the first time and it disintegrated into a small portion of rubber follicles resembling mouse dung, the thing appeared to not be just ANY rubber band...it appeared as if it had a glob like appendage on it. Kind of like a wide , flat portion of rubber, kind of like to grab your thumb and forefinger around, and twist the whole thing off the sack with.
So have any of you seen this geeky thing before, or did I just get a mutant band ?
And if it was OE, just where would one go to get one again, as I doubt there is a part number on this item, nor a bin full of them over Deutschland way........
--just more food for thought to drive us all a little further over the edge and into that ever deepening abyss.mrgreenjeans
Posted by: Johny Blackstain Mar 1 2007, 11:06 PM
Don't know if it's old news but this site has some interesting info:
http://www.p914.com/
Being an original owner of a 74, & a young boy at the time, I don't remember if the tow-eye screwed in up front, the tool kit went in the back, wrapped in the black plastic bag. Ours did not come w/ the hub cap puller & I read on the above website that lots of dealers removed them from "alloy wheeled cars". If you use the screwdriver too much the handle will crack, as mine did 25 years ago 
! The kit stayed bundled up w/ the jack & the black rubber band was not really a rubber band... it seemed more like someone sliced up an inner tube w/ a pair of scissors & used that as a rubber band. It did wrap around the black plastic bag & kept the tools in/together. My 2 cents.
Edit: OK now I'm confused 
?! Found these mixed in my Dads' tools today.
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Posted by: Rav914 Jun 14 2007, 02:22 PM
I just bought a '74 from the original owner and my car confirms what others say. The tool kit is a black plastic bag, wrapped with a black rubber band, in the trunk with the jack. The kit included a lug nut wrench, screwdriver, and one small wrench.
Essentially just like the first picture on this post but minus the hubcap puller. I don't think it was ever touched and fortunately the rubber band is like new.
Posted by: Pat Garvey Jun 14 2007, 08:58 PM
Don't know if it's old news but this site has some interesting info:
http://www.p914.com/
Being an original owner of a 74, & a young boy at the time, I remember the tow-eye screwed in up front, the tool kit went in the back, wrapped in the black plastic bag. Ours did not come w/ the hub cap puller & I read on the above website that lots of dealers removed them from "alloy wheeled cars". If you use the screwdriver too much the handle will crack, as mine did 25 years ago
! The kit stayed bundled up w/ the jack & the black rubber band was not really a rubber band... it seemed more like someone sliced up an inner tube w/ a pair of scissors & used that as a rubber band. It did wrap around the black plastic bag & kept the tools in/together. My 2 cents.Well, they DID continue to supply the hubcap puller with the tool kits. Why, I don't know, but it was probably a 2 cent part (I need one badly, by the way). I've heard about the screwdriver handles cracking & it doesn't surprise me because of age.
Yeah, the black rubber "band" was kind of hefty. Had the same tool kit on my '76 924 - exact same kit. Strange as it sounds, I'd like to have that car back, as it was when we parted ways. Underpowereed, but great handling.
Posted by: Johny Blackstain Jul 22 2007, 09:45 PM
I thought I'd revisit this thread because I discovered reading the car manual the tool bag was stored up front w/ the tow eye included. The 74 kit was bare bones at best & is listed on page 43 of the 74 manual as "Wheel Bolt Wrench w/ Breaker Bar, Double-ended Screwdriver & Towing eye". No mention of a hubcap puller or Hazet 10mm/13mm, which I know came w/out puller & w/ Hazet. Does say the kit is subject to change. There is no photo of the tool kit on p. 43. Also on this page it states it's stored in the front trunk. On p. 59 where it describes the tow hook placement on the back bumper it states that the towing eye is stored in the tool bag. My Dad must have kept it in the rear because that's where I always remembered it.
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Posted by: smontanaro Jun 19 2008, 08:29 PM
Tool Kit for a 914-6
Tom
Dredging up an old thread here. I see in Tom's post he has a blister pack of red fuses. Later on he admits it's not original. Does anyone have a picture of what the original looked like? Also, I see a little something else poking out of the pouch next to the red fuses. Is that another small fuse pack?
A couple other questions. My pouch also has the darkening seen on the right side of the image. Is that from the fan belt rubbing or something else? Any idea if it's possible to clean it? Finally, my pulley wrench has a little bit of a twist in it between the pins. Is that typical from use/abuse or did they come that way? (The pulley wrench in the 911 kit I just sold on evilBay had the same sort of twist, so using my small sample size I will lie with statistics and suggest that's a pretty typical "feature".)
Thx,
Skip Montanaro
Posted by: sixerdon Jun 19 2008, 09:31 PM
Tool Kit for a 914-6
Tom
Dredging up an old thread here. I see in Tom's post he has a blister pack of red fuses. Later on he admits it's not original. Does anyone have a picture of what the original looked like? Also, I see a little something else poking out of the pouch next to the red fuses. Is that another small fuse pack?
A couple other questions. My pouch also has the darkening seen on the right side of the image. Is that from the fan belt rubbing or something else? Any idea if it's possible to clean it? Finally, my pulley wrench has a little bit of a twist in it between the pins. Is that typical from use/abuse or did they come that way? (The pulley wrench in the 911 kit I just sold on evilBay had the same sort of twist, so using my small sample size I will lie with statistics and suggest that's a pretty typical "feature".)
Skip,
Check out that web site mentioned above. http://www.p914.com The fuse kit pictures are shown. "Pudenz" is marked on the holder. The article claims the fuse kit is not part of the tool kit, but instead is kept in the glove compartment. I found that interesting.
My wife used simple green to clean up the pouches. Takes awhile. You might try magic eraser, too.
My pulley wrenches are straight.
Hope this helps.
Don
Thx,
Skip Montanaro
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