Washington 914 to Arizona Options

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Erinie DeVries and his son stopped in today and I took a pic of the new 914 that Ernie is driving back to Az from Wa. Showed them around , the Porsch eroom and various othe ritems.
He also picked up a CAMP 914 lite kit , shox kit pieces and a shfit knob.
They are back on the road heading fro Livermore Calif.
Safe driving.
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It's Sunday morning in Phoenix. I'm tired, but we made it! My apologies to Jeff for not calling. Rain and hills slowed us down more than we had anticipated. By the time we realized that we were going to be later even than midnight it just seemed too late to call. I hope that we didn't incovenience anyone too much.

We finally stopped at about 3:30 am at a rest area somewhere south of Fresno so we could sleep. In hind-sight it's a good thing that we kept going because we ended up spending about 5 hours in Bakersfield waiting for the car to cool down so that we could adjust valves.

It just wasn't running right when we started it after our stop. We really thought we had Weber problems because we were getting what sounded like a sharp "bark" from the driver's side carb. We found "Bart's Parts" (the local Weber distributor) and Dave helped us discover that it was timed to about 50btdc max advance and it was probably not a Weber problem. At that timing it had been running warmer than we knew (the rain & genereally cool temps probably kept the oil temp down, but Dave seemed to think the heads had gotten hot and that we had a tight valve and/or a seat that was moving around).

We discovered that instead of tight valves, we had very very very loose valves. I mean - I probably could have put a pocket knife blade between the rocker & valve before it would have had any contact. After adjusting the timing and valves the engine was much happier and we cruised over Tehachopie Pass with no problem. We still could hear a little ticking sound that we could not explain and later we developed another intermittent "popping" sound, but it kept running at the temp we liked and all else seemed well so we kept going.

So this morning's agenda is to get a torque wrench and head over to my in-laws to retorque the heads and rocker arms, readjust the valves and check the exhaust/head connections to see if we can get it to stop making those sounds. Then it will be lunch with my Mom & on up the hill to Flagstaff and home!