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General process for restoration 914 |
Stuckon914 |
Jan 18 2020, 12:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 132 Joined: 25-December 18 From: East coast Member No.: 22,747 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
I just started restoring my mostly rusty 914/4, 73. I’m looking for parts and a donor car but want to start. Plan is complete tear down and then repair, replace and reassemble. Likely years beginning to end. I took all weather stripping off, carpet and seats out to clean and inspect but need advice in organizing.
For the more experienced what works? Do you start in one area, take everything off, clean, record, label and store away based on section of car? All left door bits go in ‘left door’ tote with each part labeled. Do you track parts working condition or is that more assembly section. I’ve worked on cars before but never to this level of tear down. I’ve searched and got more lost. |
bbrock |
Jan 18 2020, 12:59 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,269 Joined: 17-February 17 From: Montana Member No.: 20,845 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
+1 on ziplocks and sharpie labels. Also, take lots of reference pics and tag or organize them so you can easily find them later. No matter how many you take, you will wish you had more.
Where my system failed was in the tote department. I used pretty big totes and tried to separate parts roughly by the categories in the parts catalog (e.g. body, interior, engine, etc.) but adjusted to what would fit in totes. For example, I wound up consolidating front/rear trunk and engine bay. Like I said, the system failed and I have wasted a lot of time trying to figure out which f-ing tote/category I put a part in. Smaller totes and more precise categories might have helped but I'm kind of an organizational disaster no matter what. I did not clean and catalog condition up front. Instead, I would pull a tote out and work on it in the evenings while watching TV, evaluating, cleaning, ordering replacement parts and reassembling. That worked well for me as it kept me making progress even when I didn't have time to complete major tasks. It is paying huge dividends now that I'm in reassembly mode because most of the parts are already refurbished and it just a matter of bolting them in. |
Superhawk996 |
Jan 18 2020, 03:34 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,852 Joined: 25-August 18 From: Woods of N. Idaho Member No.: 22,428 Region Association: Galt's Gulch |
Instead, I would pull a tote out and work on it in the evenings while watching TV, evaluating, cleaning, ordering replacement parts and reassembling. Hmmmm...good I idea, but, I'm not sure how the wife will hear the TV over the die grinder. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) |
Stuckon914 |
Jan 18 2020, 03:57 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 132 Joined: 25-December 18 From: East coast Member No.: 22,747 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
Instead, I would pull a tote out and work on it in the evenings while watching TV, evaluating, cleaning, ordering replacement parts and reassembling. Hmmmm...good I idea, but, I'm not sure how the wife will hear the TV over the die grinder. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) PB plaster and WD-40 aromas through out the House, probably the last straw |
bbrock |
Jan 18 2020, 04:29 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,269 Joined: 17-February 17 From: Montana Member No.: 20,845 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
Instead, I would pull a tote out and work on it in the evenings while watching TV, evaluating, cleaning, ordering replacement parts and reassembling. Hmmmm...good I idea, but, I'm not sure how the wife will hear the TV over the die grinder. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) PB plaster and WD-40 aromas through out the House, probably the last straw (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) Ha ha. You guys are real jokers (IMG:style_emoticons/default/jester.gif) Yes, there are limits. +1 on the freezer bags with the white label patches. Never had problems with sharpie rubbing off on those. Small hardware bits are probably the biggest challenge. Small parts organizers are a must. You can buy really cheap ones at HF. They are not good quality (latches don't work) but good for temporary use. I used a combo of HF and better quality organizers figuring the HF ones likely get tossed by the end of the project. I did a combination of things to organize which also causes problems. Like PanelBilly I taped some hardware to the parts they went with although I used blue painter's tape which worked well. I also put hardware in ziplock bags labeled with the part they went to. I wouldn't do either of those again. The problem is you end up with hardware scattered here and there and you wind up losing track. I bought a lot of hardware bits only to discover later I already had them. The extra cost was only a rounding error on the whole project but still... I found just having hardware well-sorted in organizers was much better. The PET will tell you the correct hardware for 95% of the parts on the car. That way, you know you are putting it back together right. You can't trust what POs have done. Here's how I would tackle it if I ever did this again: Remove all the hardware and toss everything that will need replated into one bucket. If you are going to replate hardware yourself, you can keep the parts organized and sorted but if you are sending them off, it's all going to get mixed up anyway. Measure and sort the hardware that won't get plated into the little organizers by size rather than where they go. One of the best tips I got on this forum was to get myself one of these: (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/uploads_offsite/cdn11.bigcommerce.com-20845-1579386542.1.jpg) Do the same with the hardware that comes back from the plater. Then it is pretty easy during assembly to reference the PET (the factory manual is also a great reference for this) and select the correct hardware from your organizers. Way easier than trying to keep track of which screws came out of what part. And like Mark said, you will be buying a lot of tools! |
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