A dummies questions thread, Don't laugh at me, I'm learning Options

[23e Heure]

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Now that my 914 has finally arrived in the UK, I'll soon be able to start working through the car and finding all the little jobs (hopefully not too many big ones) that need doing.

I've owned early 911s for long enough to know my way around those OK.
914s are new to me though, so I am going to have lots of dumbass questions.
Rather than drip feed them into the forum as lots of separate threads, I'll start this one up and post my dummies questions all in one place.

Disclaimer: The car lives in a garage 1/2 mile from my house. This means that I can't just pop outside and look at the car (and work some stuff out myself), hence why some of my questions may seem even more dumbass...

[23e Heure]

It's been a while, I've been enjoying actually driving the car at last. That said, still not many miles yet, as it's still crappy winter weather in UK.

Answer to Question 6 above was: "063". As in "The correct sized Bosch battery for a 914 is an 063".
I invested in a Bosch S4 sealed battery, and now long gone are my zero charge woes!


Anyway it's high time I added to my list... Dummies QUESTION SEVEN:

- What's the easiest way of popping open a stuck engine cover?

My car has a GT style double grill cover, and opened fine until this weekend.
But now yanking on the cable seems to only part open the lock mechanism.
The actuator cable moves freely enough, so I'm hoping the cable just needs an adjustment to give it more "pull" travel.
Need to get the darned thing open to be able to try that though!

I looked here: Someone else got stuck
But only gleaned from there that it's possible to pop the mechanism if you open the rear trunk and do something with a screwdriver(?)

Any more specific pointers?

[porschetub]

It's been a while, I've been enjoying actually driving the car at last. That said, still not many miles yet, as it's still crappy winter weather in UK.

Answer to Question 6 above was: "063". As in "The correct sized Bosch battery for a 914 is an 063".
I invested in a Bosch S4 sealed battery, and now long gone are my zero charge woes!


Anyway it's high time I added to my list... Dummies QUESTION SEVEN:

- What's the easiest way of popping open a stuck engine cover?

My car has a GT style double grill cover, and opened fine until this weekend.
But now yanking on the cable seems to only part open the lock mechanism.
The actuator cable moves freely enough, so I'm hoping the cable just needs an adjustment to give it more "pull" travel.
Need to get the darned thing open to be able to try that though!

the funny plastic windows on both sides of your rear trunk can be popped out and you have acsess to the latch,I think,sounds like the metal leg into the latch is loose and has jammed...make sure its tight on the 8mm locking bolt, (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif)

I looked here: Someone else got stuck
But only gleaned from there that it's possible to pop the mechanism if you open the rear trunk and do something with a screwdriver(?)

Any more specific pointers?