"Excited Newbie Blues", "Further Adventures in the Garage" Options

[Larmo63]

Okay, here's the deal, I just bought this car in early March, and I have to tell a bit of the story of myself and the "progress." I found it in the upper desert (Pearblossom, near Palmdale/Lancaster, SoCal) at an out-of-the-way, largely Mercedes Benz junkyard, where I went with a friend so he could check out and buy a MB Diesel wagon. (he swears by them) There it sat, forlornly knee deep in the weeds and I couldn't resist. The purveyor of the fine assortment of (junk) classics wanted $3K for the car, I had the money, but I finagled it way down because he needed the dough, badly. I aired up the tires and with the help of a crack head forklift driver who "forked" a few dead MB's out of the way, it rolled right out! The dirtiest car (inside) I've ever seen, and/or have ever taken on. This car was NASTY inside when I first saw it.

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[housepumpinpc]

Hi. Whatever you do, rebuild your calipers...The previous owner of my 914 bought new front calipers and rotors(I tried to install them for him) and the passenger side caliper would not fit(tried quite a few) Turned out that he had a driver's side spindle on the passenger side(would have never thunk it). Two years later he found a caliper and had to modify the body so it would fit over the rotor(mr. dremel) The rotors were too large(still have them don't know what they go to). While you are at it, REPLACE ALL BRAKE LINES AND HOSES. Took me 2 months to do this after the calipers rotors were installed. Running the steel lines thru that shift tunnel(got scarred knuckles for my trouble) is a mother.