Long trips..., Should I try? I'm I a wimp? |
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Long trips..., Should I try? I'm I a wimp? |
oldschool |
Sep 11 2012, 12:02 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,362 Joined: 29-October 08 From: P-town Member No.: 9,705 Region Association: Southern California |
This was out of the blue...My wife and I planned a trip to Santa Barbra ( about 2.5 hours )Trip She said LETS TAKE THE 914! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) ....My car drives ok, but man I don't know about driving her that far (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)
I'm I just a wimp....It was on a flat bed trailer before.If you know what I mean.\Not to sure if I can trust her. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) |
wingnut86 |
Sep 11 2012, 12:02 PM
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...boola la boo boola boo... Group: Members Posts: 1,053 Joined: 22-April 10 From: South Carolina Member No.: 11,645 Region Association: South East States |
I bought the 70' 1.7, 1.5 hours North of Charlotte and drove an additional 3 hours home. 4 hours 1-way. Nothing spectacular.
It had half the tin, no engine to compartment seal to speak of, JB Welded speado drive, no joke-bailing wire around side shift console, only the most important seals leaked like sieves-all others stayed dry. The flaps fuel pump sounded like a slurpy machine grinding ice, the only good thing about the single carb was that it didn't need adjusting as the grease hid the superglued throttle screw from view, I had many different plugs and types of wires mix-matched in there-obviously to limit 1 reliance on 1 vendor's product lines (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) I bungie tied the passenger door tight, in case we did a Wiley Coyote around a mountain pass, lest my daughter get airborne. The brakes? There were 4 corners - best we leave that subject alone. 1 can of stop-leak for 2 opposite corner tires. Oh, the wiper motor worked, just neede a right wiper. I wired in an additional temp gauge once I got to Charlotte, cause I didn't trust the one hanging precariously from the dash - lucky for me it wasn't needed as the PO reassembled the tins with the air flaps stuck open. Only thing that truly failed? We needed to push the 914 2 blocks to a gas station, in rush hour traffic, just 4 miles from the seller's house. The damn fuel sender was BAD!! 8 gallons later, and a balmy 92°, and we were set for our 3-4 hour drive home at 70mph (I guessed at the speed). I pulled the block the next week, the cylinders and pistons were burnt and starved, but after cleaning and adding oil, all cylinders had decent compression and a scope of the innards and paint filters on the oil changes after showed no shavings - go figure. Billh1963 has seen the car, he probably thought it sat for 30 years prior to my pulling the motor and parking (IMG:style_emoticons/default/flag.gif) |
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