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[Jamie]

I almost forgot about my flatbed adventure while Dad was still alive. I drove him down to Tennessee Tubs near Nashville, his first trip in his "former" 914 since I had bought it and done some serious "fix-er-upen." I don't remember the year, but on the way back home here in central KY a loose part in the tranny blew a hole in the housing and drained the oil on I-65 on a hot summer day. Exercised my AAA card and was towed back to Lexington for a tranny rebuild, and some additional while we're at it replacements of clutch, throw-out bearing, etc.

[raynekat]

On the way to the shop (nearly a year ago) to get the drivetrain installed after I spent the previous year assembling the rest of the car.
Happy days.

[dt4]

The end of a 4500 mile journey

[76-914]

Since this thread is back up I thought I should post my 3rd CV failure 4 weeks ago. What is the importance of the street sign? This is within 100' of where I broke down a few months back. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

[KELTY360]

Since this thread is back up I thought I should post my 3rd CV failure 4 weeks ago. What is the importance of the street sign? This is within 100' of where I broke down a few months back. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

I think I’d stop driving that road Kent. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bye1.gif)

[poorsche914]

The day started out good (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) and then...


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[Bruce Edge]

Which is the proper way to load a 914 on a trailer. I have several trailers to chose from, some heavy 4 wheel jobs to a light Two wheel. I have home made two wheel trailer I have been using for 30 years. It is ugly, but light weight, can put it with smaller vehicles. When not loaded, I can unhook and roll it around buy myself. I have hauled more car than I can count, a smaller sports car, like 356’s.
Recently, I took 914 to Florida, loaded it backwards, to get the weight on the tongue of the trailer. It was a horrible trip, trailer fished back and forth. Was the wind pushing against the rear window the problem.
Including a older picture of the trailer being pulled by my VW bus.

[Cairo94507]

I have always seen them loaded front first. That must have been a scary trip with the trailer whipping around like that. Glad it did not cause any real issues.

[preach]

Including a older picture of the trailer being pulled by my VW bus.

I'd love to see that pic. My dream is to tow an aluminum trailer with my 914 on it with my Westfalia. Gods that would be cool.

[euro911]

Always try to place the heaviest portion of the load over (or just ahead of) the trailer's axles.

I bought a Smithy at a industrial machine convention and they loaded it into my 5x8 enclosed 'horse trailer' with a fork lift, but because of the ramp, they couldn't fork it very far into the trailer. I had to drive 50 miles at 40 mph (slow lane on the freeway) because it would fishtail like crazy (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[Gatornapper]

About 4 years ago 3 friends and I all had bad "get our car towed home in a flatbed" experiences and were fed up with paying huge fees as insurance only covered a few miles - so we went together and got a nice 16' Big Tex dual axle trailer with a 10k GVWR, and in the first 2 months it paid for itself. So glad to have it, keep it parked here as we have 15 acres. Put a winch on it to pull vehicles on to it.

I've only put my 914 on it once, when ignition went out, but put Rickb45's beautiful '72 914 on it once. Never a problem fishtailing, always put car on facing forward. As Mark S said, keep weight in front of axles, on tongue........

Sorry, no pics.

GN

[eric9144]

Drew the short stick today... Heading to the SoCal drive @Coondog set up, hauling ass down the 5, doing "the ton" and all of a sudden I'm billowing oil smoke out of the engine lid like the Blue Angels on a fly over (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Shut the key off on the freeway in the fast lane and threw it into neutral to stop the bleeding...

Puke tank puked, don't really know why, 6 hours of oil mop up and every thing seems to be "normal" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)

Think it might go to Patrick Motorsports for a check up



Sad too because the day started like this:

[eric9144]

Damn sideways picutres, I'm on a macbook and I swear I can't get them right, sorry (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

[ndfrigi]

Drew the short stick today... Heading to the SoCal drive @Coondog set up, hauling ass down the 5, doing "the ton" and all of a sudden I'm billowing oil smoke out of the engine lid like the Blue Angels on a fly over (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

Shut the key off on the freeway in the fast lane and threw it into neutral to stop the bleeding...

Puke tank puked, don't really know why, 6 hours of oil mop up and every thing seems to be "normal" (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif)

Think it might go to Patrick Motorsports for a check up



Sad too because the day started like this:

Sorry Eric! You’re not able to join us this morning. Sad that you are the earliest one who left the house to attend the drive this morning. Well hoping you will find the issue.

[euro911]

Damn sideways picutres, I'm on a macbook and I swear I can't get them right, sorry (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Open the offending 'picture' in Preview, then from the top header, click Tools, scroll down to Rotate Right, (or Rotate Left (as needed) to reorient the picture, then click Save ... then upload the image again as usual ...

[914-300Hemi]

On my last drive I over rev’d the engine and when I got home the was making clacking noise. Car off to Marc’s to be fixed.

[76-914]

On my last drive I over rev’d the engine and when I got home the was making clacking noise. Car off to Marc’s to be fixed.

I see a rev limiter in your future.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[914-300Hemi]

On my last drive I over rev’d the engine and when I got home the was making clacking noise. Car off to Marc’s to be fixed.

I see a rev limiter in your future.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

I don’t think so Kent. This was pure stupidity on my part. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

[ctc911ctc]

I thought it was a Clutch Cable (Can't be, I inspected the entire cable when I got the car) and it turned out to be the CLEVIS.... WHAT!!!! A plastic part in such a critical position!!!!!!!!

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[euro911]

That's Volkswagen for ya. They still install plastic 'critical drive train' components in some of their vehicles. They were still installing a plastic bell crank between the shift lever mechanism and another shift rod to the transmission selector linkage in the Beetle/Golf/Jetta line. They called the bell crank a 'relay' in the parts diagram (IMG:style_emoticons/default/screwy.gif)

When it broke, it left owners stranded with no way to shift gears to move out of harms way (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) ... ask me how I know (IMG:style_emoticons/default/shades.gif)


I always use the metal trunnion block (some folks call it a clevis), and carry a spare one, along with a spare cable and two 11 mm nuts (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)