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> MY 71 Restoration, Restoration of a 1971 914/4
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post Apr 26 2015, 11:00 AM
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That is a beautiful car, Excellent work, Love the color I didnt think gold was going to be as nice as it is.

Excellent Excellent work.

I hope my 74' or my 71' comes out that nice.
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post Apr 28 2015, 05:59 PM
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I messed with installing the back pad and seats today. They are not in for good yet. I still need to run wires for rear fog light, and finish gluing down the carpet. I also need to find a set of seatbelts that are in better condition.

The BWA Pordoi steering wheel is temporary while the stock one is out being wrapped.

The car is slowly getting there. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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post Apr 28 2015, 06:19 PM
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Thanks for posting all these great photos, the car looks amazing and I really like the door panels. Excellent build. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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post Apr 28 2015, 08:19 PM
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(IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif) Looking great!

If you ever decide to go back to stock door panels, please PM me. I really like those and think that they would look much better in my non-original car. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/poke.gif)
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post Apr 30 2015, 07:50 PM
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Today I focused on prepping to install a rear fog light.

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I made a little tool to mark a green line on some 16ga white primary wire. I used a small tube with a hole drilled in the side, and insterted a green Sharpie. It worked pretty well. You just need to have a helper pull the wire though the tube at a slow constant pace as not to get an uneven line.

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I need to find some PVC wire sleeving to complete the harness.
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post Apr 30 2015, 10:38 PM
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Very creative (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) .
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post Apr 30 2015, 10:46 PM
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Curious what kind of bracket you're going to use to mount the rear fog.

I'll be doing a similar thing soon.
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post May 1 2015, 07:47 PM
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Curious what kind of bracket you're going to use to mount the rear fog.

I'll be doing a similar thing soon.



The lamp came with a little adjustable bracket. I just used it. It worked well enough.

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I also found a local source for the sheathing and picked up the correct wire since they had some in stock. I recreated the factory harness and ran it to the dash as I thought it should. Not much more room in the snorkel!

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post May 1 2015, 11:03 PM
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Very nice. Any light you add to the rear of our cars is all good.
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post May 1 2015, 11:07 PM
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How does that mount work? Great light for fog safe driving. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif)
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post May 2 2015, 08:14 PM
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How does that mount work? Great light for fog safe driving. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif)



It is held on by a threaded stud with a square head to keep it from spinning in the bracket. The lamp attaches to a little adjustable tab that bolts to the bracket.

You can see it in the picture I found on the classicult web page.

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post May 5 2015, 06:12 PM
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This car is going to be the death of me! The wiring harness started on fire today. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

Luckily I was able to pull the power soon enough before it got too far along. It looks like I just lost all of the blk/blu wires from the headlight switch running to the gauges.

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Not sure what happened. I don't know if the dimmer switch is bad or it was due to the fact that I had the fog light relay disconnected. Luckily I do have another little harness that feeds the gauge bulbs. I just need to run a new feed wire from the switch to it.

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post May 5 2015, 07:17 PM
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OMG! Karl I have nightmares over exactly that same thing.

I have an NOS wiring harness for my Six. I feel blessed to have scored that. I am so fearful that once the battery gets hooked up (approx. 4 months or so from now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) ) that the smoke demon will appear. I still have my original harness and will likely keep that as a safety blanket just in case.

I hope you are able to definitely determine why that happened so it is never a concern in the future. I love your restoration.
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post May 5 2015, 07:32 PM
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Beautiful car! congrats
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post May 5 2015, 07:45 PM
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That's the reason I'm going with a brand new wiring harness from Kroon in Holland. For sure the last thing I want to worry about.

Wishing you luck with chasing the electrical gremlins....I know that can be a tough thing.
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post May 5 2015, 08:24 PM
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Whew! That could have been worse! Man that lighting circuit can be finicky. That's the 3rd or 4th issue like that I've heard of in the last year or so. Glad you caught it before it melted the interior or messed up that pretty paint!
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post May 5 2015, 09:53 PM
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ArgggH! sorry to hear about those melted wires. I was dreaming along with this story and last thing I wanted to hear was a dash fire. Anyway, I am sure you will get it sorted. Your skills are immense.

As for the air cleaner, it is my understanding, and I could be wrong, that the proper 1971 air cleaner was the oil - bath type. Most owners switched that potentially messy thing out to the 1972 part which your car has. I still have my oil bath on a shelf but am running a '72 as well.

The more I look at your gold car ....and think about my gold car.. let's just say I am very impressed with this project and if envy can be respectful, I guess I am a bit envious as well..
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post May 5 2015, 10:30 PM
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QUOTE(Cairo94507 @ May 5 2015, 07:17 PM) *

OMG! Bob I have nightmares over exactly that same thing.

I have an NOS wiring harness for my Six. I feel blessed to have scored that. I am so fearful that once the battery gets hooked up (approx. 4 months or so from now (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) ) that the smoke demon will appear. I still have my original harness and will likely keep that as a safety blanket just in case.

I hope you are able to definitely determine why that happened so it is never a concern in the future. I love your restoration.
Michael



Michael,

I hope I can determine the issue. I'm a bit worried that even if I am able to replace the wires, the same thing may end up happening again. A couple years back, I did buy an NOS harness. It was beautiful. However, it turned out to be either a six harness or a European version. Almost everything was the identical with the exception of the dash wires. There were several extra wires that didn't match the original.

I sent it, along with my original harness, and a complete 72 harness off to be restored in hopes that between the three harnesses, I would get a very good harness for my car. After getting the harness back, it appears very little of the NOS wire harness was used to restore my original one.

Even though the restorer did a good job building me a complete harness, I'm disappointed that many of the wires and connectors were still covered with paint. Between the cost of restoration and the price I paid for the two other harnesses, I invested close to 3k, and then I almost ruin the whole thing. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Hey, at least I didn’t burn up the car. I just have to fix it and continue on.

Thanks for the support, and continued encouragement.

Karl
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QUOTE(Kraftwerk @ May 5 2015, 09:53 PM) *

ArgggH! sorry to hear about those melted wires. I was dreaming along with this story and last thing I wanted to hear was a dash fire. Anyway, I am sure you will get it sorted. Your skills are immense.

As for the air cleaner, it is my understanding, and I could be wrong, that the proper 1971 air cleaner was the oil - bath type. Most owners switched that potentially messy thing out to the 1972 part which your car has. I still have my oil bath on a shelf but am running a '72 as well.

The more I look at your gold car ....and think about my gold car.. let's just say I am very impressed with this project and if envy can be respectful, I guess I am a bit envious as well..


Thank you kind Sir. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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post May 5 2015, 10:33 PM
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QUOTE(Kraftwerk @ May 5 2015, 09:53 PM) *

ArgggH! sorry to hear about those melted wires. I was dreaming along with this story and last thing I wanted to hear was a dash fire. Anyway, I am sure you will get it sorted. Your skills are immense.

As for the air cleaner, it is my understanding, and I could be wrong, that the proper 1971 air cleaner was the oil - bath type. Most owners switched that potentially messy thing out to the 1972 part which your car has. I still have my oil bath on a shelf but am running a '72 as well.

The more I look at your gold car ....and think about my gold car.. let's just say I am very impressed with this project and if envy can be respectful, I guess I am a bit envious as well..


Thank you kind Sir. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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