My New to me 914 Options

[rothaus]

Hi, I own 911 Porsches for a while now, and finally now I picked up a 914. It's a 76 2.0, Sunlight Yellow. The car was converted to Carbs by the PO.

Here some pictures.
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Cheers
Engelbert

[rothaus]

Here some more work I did.

Exhaust
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Looks like that muffler doesn't do anything. So I took it out and found that the pre muffler is in good shape, just a lot of surface rust. So I cleaned it up and gave it a coat of hi heat black paint.
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Instead of the additional muffler, I just installed a pipe, and it still is not that loud. LOL.
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An other thing that needed some attention was the cover plate under the steering rack.
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We will get to that later.....

I also found that the inner nut of the tie rod was not tied, which would not go anywhere since the outer one was tied.
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Here is the cover cleaned up.
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Now, there some issues that the windshield wiper would not stop, and if, it would stop anywhere, but not in parking position. So I started with the easy part, the switch.
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I removed it, and gave it a good cleaning with electronic cleaner and air, and gave it a try.
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Ha, now it was working, but the wiper stopped to park position in the middle of the windshield.

OK the motor seam to work and park, but in the wrong position. To get to the wimpywipermotor you have to remove the air blower housing. To remove the air blower housing you have to remove the gas tank.

OK, tank out
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It's always interesting what can be found
The fuel pump was a little to close to the brake fluid supply line for my, almost rubbing.
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So I removed it and modified the holder
Here before
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Here after
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Much more betta
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OK, back to the wimpywiper.
Blower out. There was really nothing left without yellow paint.
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OK, finally access the wiper motor
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There is also a nut from the dash board. The best is tor remove the speedo to access it, unless you have 1 inch thin arms with 25 joints, LOL.
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I took the opportunity to clean out 40 years of collected dirt.
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After the adjustment of the linkage, so that the wiper stops at the bottom of the driver side, motor goes back in.
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Next to clean out the blower
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The motor looked good, the brushes were still good, and the motor bearings looked like sealed bearings and should be OK for another 40 year of dust.
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Ready to back in.
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I could not get the yellow paint of the grill, but I had to paint it black. Back to Black.
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to be continued

Cheers
Engelbert