Cary's 73 1.7 Rustoration Thread Options

[zambezi]

I passed a bar on the way to work this morning

[cary]

Got my new computer monitor hung from the ceiling ......................


We'll start the morning at Home Depot in the am. I need to get a 50ft HDMI cable.
Cheaped out. Just ordered from Amazon for $18. It will be here on Tuesday.

[cary]

After reading the thread about building an engine with his 4 year old son I had to find an old spiral bound copy of John Muir's book. That's where I started this madness 44 years ago.



This morning starts with a stop at Ace for vent pipe and some electrical boxes to get the BE parts washer up and running. We'll start with Mark's box of steering racks and valve covers.

[cary]

Super In Law went to work on the parts washer. He finished up the wiring and we ran a couple tests. Every thing checked out ok. Turned on the heater and water started to heat up. So we thru in couple steering racks and away she went. But only for about 6-7 minutes and my new Made In American Dayton turntable motor started smoking. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
I bought it brand new in 2012. Dandy .................





Decided just buying another new one wasn't going to do me any good. The irrigation pump / electric motor repair shop was open till 2pm. So I dropped it off. I need to know if it was DOA, or do I have a wiring issue. I just wired it up the way I found it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/idea.gif)

We have a newer version of the same washer at Rothsport. On Monday I'll chase the wires down. There's only two so it shouldn't be real tough.

Dayton 1LPN6

It sounded pretty cool for a few minutes .....................

[cary]

Just thought I'd add a little tidbit that I've learned at Rothsport. We usually have a couple 964 back dates going all the time. In doing so the cars are stripped down to bare metal. When pulling the dash or face plates they get a little nicked up.

Those nicks and cuts can be easily repaired with super glue. The foam reacts very well to the super glue. Here's a shot of my repaired sun visor pad from the roof.

[cary]

As suspected. 115v motor wired up 220v. I'm melting .............
Windings melted.
We'll attempt to get it powered back up today and get the steering racks washed up so Mark can get some rebuilds started. We'll turn it by hand every 5 minutes or so.

Here's a shot of AX #9.

7th. fastest time on A7's. 45 cars.
Off season upgrades :
Carrera rear calipers with Pagid Black pads
Removing Aeroquip oil cooler lines and swapping to finned Elephant Racing.
Adding in series Setrab oil cooler into RS bumper. Slight Rothsport mod to front of tub for cooler air flow.
If time and budget allows. SSI's and Steve Wong chip. Muffler. Yet to be determined.

50ft. HDMI cable came in for the big screen TV/computer monitor. That should get installed today. Should be up and running.

[cary]

Great Day ...................

1. Parts washer was only the mis-wired turntable motor. Changed the in line fuse and she fired right up. Thermostat is also working on the water tank. Outside metal temp is about 175 when she shuts off.
Here's a shot of the first batch of steering racks. Before and after.


2. HDMI cord brought the big screen TV/computer monitor to life.


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[76-914]

That steering rack looks great Cary. What soap or solvent is used in the machine?

[cary]

Hotsy detergent. But it did go thru the bead blaster too.

[cary]

All the steering rack cores have been washed. I do need to come up with a bottle brush to scrub the grease out of the center of the tube. Pre soaking over night in the purple stuff didn't break it down. Blasted the next one with #3 crushed glass. Almost the same as garnet but a little smoother. But real tidy.

[cary]

Super In Law work :

You guys would have loved this one. I'm in the other room working on Doug's car when he walks in showing me the burnt winding on my 120/220v motor burn down. Then I ask, what are you doing ? He replies, I'm seeing if I can put that reduction gear from the burnt motor on to that old 1/6 hp check stand turntable motor. Cracks me up .............. Didn't work. But he had fun trying.
Today I'll put him to work on the new inside corners on Doug's trunk.

Super In Law health :

Weak valve causes the heart to race when it senses an issue. Taking something for that.
He does have slight case of AFIB. But we're electing to let that ride. Side effects from the meds isn't worth the risk.

Now that he knows whats going on he's back to normal. At home : digging up a portion of our gravel driveway with a pitch fork. He's removing a high spot before the 6 loads of gravel come to freshen things up.

[cary]

Short day on Saturday.
1. We put the 911 away for the winter. It will need to be washed and dried before the cover goes on and the wheels come off. We'll wait for a break in the weather.
It usually resides in the covered trailer. In the winter I use the covered trailer to store the 914 at home. That way it has its own safe little garage. No bikes, no rakes, no storage on the roof. LOL.


2. Then we continue to work on the cleaning process for Mark's new steering rack rebuild service. Here's a shot of Super In Laws lash up for shooting straight down the tubes with the jet washer. Still not getting all the embedded grease out of the tube. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
I'm trying to get this down to as little hand work as possible to keep the cost down.
I talked to Jeff at Rothsport yesterday. The best way to clean those pieces would be to use a large plastic tumbler. I checked my Powerball ticket from last night and I didn't win. So thats not in the cards.

So here the new plan :
1. Soak in 5 gal. bucket of straight purple degreaser of some kind.
2. Then on to conventional parts washer where I'll scrub the inside with a bottle/engine cleaning brush. I'll scour the interweb this afternoon after I mic out the hole/tube sizes.
3. Then a scrub down in the jet washer.
4. Next, the hand work in the bead blaster. I used #3 fine crushed glass on the first couple. Don't like the finish. Too rough. Tidy, but too rough. I'm going to search for some plastic beads here in PDX. Jeff said that will give me the closest thing short of the tumbler for the finish I'm looking for.


Left one has gone thru the blaster on #3 fine glass. But still had grease down inside the tube. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

[cary]

Did find the brushes at McMaster Carr.

[cary]

Taking a day off from welding and grinding ..................
Mike (Warpig) stopped by for some help with his car. It has a major main seal oil leak.
Because of the leak, the cars has been sitting for around three years. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)
Getting these cars back on the road is my thing ................ 75 1.8L.



Here's the aftermath of the days work .............







And this is what we came for ................



Worklist :

Rear main seal
Clutch
Flywheel seal
Replace both harnesses with Jeff's fine creations.
Intake runner tubes
Intake manifold gaskets
Fresh fuel and vacuum hoses
Valve adjustment
Powder coat tin (Mike)
Soda blast fan housing (Cary @ Rothsport)
Front main seal ..........because of the mess we found. Looking at the density of oil I'm thinking its primarily came from the oil filler seal. Thick and messy at the top.
914 Rubber oil vent/filler seal
Oil cooler seals
Fuel injector seals
Send fuel injectors out for service (send to GB)
Create missing pre heater tube (Mike)
Mike is looking into a muffler replacement
914 Rubber SS engine tin allen screws
Thermostat cable
Clutch cable
Speedo cable (?)
Flywheel Bolts
J Pipe heater hose engine tin grommets
(2) 8mm CV bolt plates
(8) 8mm CV bolts
Flywheel pilot bushing
Swepco tranny fluid
(2) triangle exhaust gaskets
Alternator cooling duct
Backup plug boot
Speedo drive o ring
Tranny ground strap
Engine compartment seal set
(2) engine to body heater hoses
Add timing marks to fan and flywheel - I saw one unpainted and a painted about 45 degrees around. I'll have to figure that out.
(2) Transmission output shaft seals
Tranny seal behind guide tube
Mike's taking the flywheel to a machine shop by his house to see if it can be turned. Looked to have enough meat.

Need to locate the flywheel turning info and the fan marking template to add to my Google Drive 914 info file.

Blue info added 11/13/16 am

We'll do a shopping list and parts sorting in the am. Then Mike will go to work on removing the rocker panels. Project will wait for the parts washer replacement motor which is on its way. Sitting in a UPS trailer in Illinois.

[cary]

When I arrived at the shop Saturday am I found another leak to add to Mike's list.



I spent a couple hours with Mike and sorted out his parts. What to replace. What to bead blast. What to run thru the parts washer. Just checked, turntable motor was in Hermiston at 6:41. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)

Then Super In Law and I headed to lunch .......... Subway. I let Mike go work on his car.
This is a very nice car. Mike pulled the rocker covers. Other than dirty red paint they look to be virgin and in great shape. Needs a little patch work in the hell hole. The primary issue I see is a hillbilly floor pan repair behind the passenger seat. Which looks to be caused by a leaky back window. We'll need to do some patches to the lower portion of the firewall also. Clutch and fuel line holes. If the hillbilly floor pan patch is weather tight it will be left for a future restoration.

Here's Mike's pile of carnage after about 3 hours.

[BillC]

When I arrived at the shop Saturday am I found another leak to add to Mike's list.

That might not actually be a leak. If you left the trans filled with oil, that could have come out the vent at the top of the trans. I discovered that the hard way last winter, when I stood my trans up in a corner after pulling it and the engine (was a real pain to clean up).

[cary]

Your right. We did forget to replace the vent with a bolt. Good catch.
Too focused on getting the tranny cleaned up ................. What a gooey mess.

[cary]

The new turntable motor for the parts washer finally showed up. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
Spent the big money for the 220v motor. Wired it in and away she went.

[Mikey914]

Cary,
The 1st test fit rack I did, I was able to degrease pretty easily using brake cleaner. Figured the wash rack would easily get it all, but might be worth getting the majority of it out 1st. I used about 1/2 can (maybe a tad more) doing the one. Figured it wouldn't be as cost effective, but might help????

[cary]

The brushes showed up from McMaster Carr last week while we were waiting for the jet washer motor. Last night I dropped the racks into the mineral spirits before I left the shop. So after an hour of welding on Doug's car this morning I grabbed the brushes and gave them a try. They did the trick.



Ran them thru the jet washer one last time to rinse them off.



1. I think the glass beads leave to open/rough of a finish. You'll need to come by and take a look.
2. I'm thinking plastic beads or soda ............... I'll see what I can come up with.
3. Need to come up with some plastic plugs for the rack openings when its in the blast cabinet. I need to get an idea of how tight the tolerances are.