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> Spoke's Green 914 Progress Thread, 1974 914 2.0
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post Feb 25 2006, 01:41 PM
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I saw it on ebay.
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post Feb 25 2006, 02:13 PM
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ahh....i think it was on CL too. Looked a a good deal.
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post Feb 28 2006, 02:27 AM
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Well, I got closer to road ready with a new clutch.

Then on further inspection, I found the driver side rear swing arm has a bad bushing. The shiny part of the suspension ear shows how the trailing arm has been moving around. The blue screwdriver is in a hole in the metal caused by the movement of the arm at the pickup point.

This puts me in a real predicament since I have a 5-lug suspension to put on the car but have at least a month or more of work (at my pace) on the wheels (strip, polish, paint), install suspension, flare fenders, and I want to get the car on the road ASAP.

Question: How hard is it to replace a bushing? I'm thinking of repairing just this one bad bushing. Are any special tools required?

Maybe one of my local 914 brothers has a spare swing arm that I can "borrow" for a couple of months. Perhaps we can swap some parts.

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post Mar 13 2006, 10:17 PM
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Before and After I added a little wheel bling. Wheels from my red car.

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post Mar 13 2006, 10:26 PM
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A-Calipers... ditch the wear sensor. I used a cut-off wheel on the spring plate to remove the extra cable holder for the set here.
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post Mar 13 2006, 10:51 PM
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QUOTE (Spoke @ Feb 17 2006, 06:28 AM)
Front trunk is very clean.

hey spoke, looks like the car was hit in the drivers front once ...
that "wrinkle" in the front fender is a default crumble zone. any dents there usually are the result of a frontal impact.

check the front for repairs and it wouldn't hurt to check the front axle geometry as well ...

ask me how i know ...
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post Mar 14 2006, 05:31 AM
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QUOTE (SirAndy @ Mar 13 2006, 11:51 PM)
hey spoke, looks like the car was hit in the drivers front once ...
that "wrinkle" in the front fender is a default crumble zone. any dents there usually are the result of a frontal impact.

Thanks!. I was wondering about the dent. Also, the hood has been repainted along with the headlamp door covers and eyebrows. I'll have to check a little deeper on this. Car doesn't pull or have any other strange characteristics. I did have to adjust the hood back a little as it was hitting the metal around the hood gasket near the front bumper and not closing all the way. Hmm...

Also looking at the pic, the inside front of the trunk has been repainted but I haven't found any strange wrinkles there. The color is a bit off from the original paint of the car.

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post Jun 4 2006, 07:06 PM
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Got a set of chrome bumpers. Front one needs some pounding, back one just needed cleaning.

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post Sep 9 2006, 05:58 AM
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Well the weather is starting to turn here in PA and time for some heat. The car came with SSHE but none of the parts shown in the pic. I sandblasted the flappers and got the stainless steel tubes from an engine that I bought.

The tubes are very nice after polishing them but I had a problem getting them off the engine since all 4 bolts had either rusted to the nuts on the tubes or rusted to the nuts and the nuts rusted off of the tubes. Either way, I had to grind the bolts off and weld new nuts on.

All hardware now installed and I'm ready for the cold weather.

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post Sep 9 2006, 07:31 AM
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Nice Ravanna Green 914. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)


How's the 5 lug conversion coming? I hope you sent out the calipers for rebuilding....
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post Sep 12 2006, 07:12 PM
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QUOTE(Bleyseng @ Sep 9 2006, 09:31 AM) *

Nice Ravanna Green 914. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)


How's the 5 lug conversion coming? I hope you sent out the calipers for rebuilding....


I picked the car; the color came on the car. Nice classic color but not sure if I'll keep it once I start repainting..

The only thing I've done on the 5-lug is strip and polish the wheels. I spent a lot of time cleaning up the spokes of the wheels. Will paint the background black. 19mm Master Cylinder and rear Tee ordered.

For the suspension, I will inspect everything and unless something jumps out at me, I'll mount it all then replace items as needed such as ball joints, tie rod ends, bearings, rebuild calipers. The rears calipers on the green car will stay as they have been rebuilt recently and the rear is 4-to-5 lug converted 914.

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post Sep 25 2006, 11:06 PM
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Painted the wheels tonight. One step closer to 5-lug.

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post Sep 26 2006, 12:24 AM
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QUOTE(Spoke @ Feb 25 2006, 11:34 AM) *

The far bellows on the rack has been chewed by mice. Should I consider using this rack or stay with the one on my 914? Would this one be better?



the racks are the same more or less...the one with the least amount of use would be my choice....

if you go with turbo tie rods (and you should, and I might have a brand new unused set for sale) they come with new boots...
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post Oct 28 2006, 09:34 AM
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I'm done cleaning and prepping the front end. Repacked the bearings, added lube to the ball joints, cleaned up the rotors.

I decided not to paint anything yet since everything cleaned up real well and with my flame-test just-bolt-it-on-and-see-what-works approach, I may be taking things apart later.

Ball joints and tie rod ends feel ok but won't know their true condition until mounted on the car.

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post Oct 28 2006, 09:41 AM
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Tires are mounted. 205/50/15 Yoko ES100's on 7" wheels for the front, 225/50/15 Yoko's on 8" wheels for the rear.

Nice 14x5.5" Fuch for the spare from Camp914. I never leave home without a spare. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif) Once I ran over something on RT287 in NJ in my A6 and the tire deflated immediately. Tire had 1/4" hole in the tread. Had to ride the donut for 150 miles.

BTW, the box beside the spare Fuch holds a rebuilt front driveshaft for the A6. Outside boot ripped.

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post Oct 28 2006, 09:46 AM
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First fitment of the rear wheels on the hub assembly. Had to mount the tire to remove the spline nut to pull the driveshaft. The 8" wheels will give the back-end that lovely fat bottom look that guys like.

The red stuff on the swing arm is paint dust from painting the red car.

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post Dec 2 2006, 04:13 PM
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Time to do the 5-lug thing. Finally...

I'll do the front end first, then the back end.

Last pic of 4-lug front end.


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post Dec 2 2006, 04:15 PM
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Dropped the old front end.


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post Dec 2 2006, 04:17 PM
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All the old front end stuff. Anybody need something? Rotors? Calipers? 17mm master cylinder is out, too.


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post Dec 2 2006, 04:20 PM
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Ken Tyrell tried 4 front wheels, how about none?


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