My '70 V-8 Assembly Thread, a few updates and pic's |
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My '70 V-8 Assembly Thread, a few updates and pic's |
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Oct 14 2017, 02:44 PM
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If you didn't see elsewhere this is a 1970 914 w/ a 327 and 901 transmission. I purchased the car from "Bullit" and here is some info I gotten thus far. The wiring harness is out of a '73; the front end is off a 911 but I forget which year w/ "M" calipers; Trailing arms have some of Foley's reinforcement kit; Engman inner stiffener kit was installed; Griffen radiator;window regulators from a '73; stock 914 1/2 shafts and a lot more which I'll note later.
I'm presently working on the rear brakes and trailing arms and have 2 questions. What is the torque valve for the nut that my torque wrench is attached to; 108 ft lb or 50 ft lb? The manual says 50 for "Control arm bearing/body" and 108 ft lbs for the "Control arm bearing/control arm". Not sure which is which! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) |
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Dec 19 2017, 09:22 PM
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Repeat Offender & Resident Subaru Antagonist Group: Members Posts: 13,494 Joined: 23-January 09 From: Temecula, CA Member No.: 9,964 Region Association: Southern California |
Thx Chris. I've since discovered that 914rubber makes a block off plate w/ appropriate vinyl for 25 bucks. Hard to pass that up.
I finally have the brakes working. I never had this much trouble getting the brakes to work but then again I've never had a 914 with an entirely new barking system. I've always been able to bleed a system using slave labor on the brake pedal or the "long tube method' or a Mighty Pump pull down. Not this time. I used the Mighty Pump to pull fluid to all the calipers until no bubbles were present. That didn't do a thing. Then I realized that the new master cylinder wasn't bench bleed before hand so I broke fittings apart and bleed it in place. Nothing. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) Pulled fluid thru again with the Mighty Pump and still nothing. Pumped the brake using the "long tube" method till the lines were clear and still nothing. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) I thought maybe the MC was used so I asked Bob and he said it was new so I ruled out a torn cup seal in the MC. I ordered a set of speed bleeders and attacked it again. The right rear required a little over 500 pumps before the line quit passing tiny, tiny bubbles. I shit you not. On each caliper bleed I didn't move on to the next caliper until the line was perfectly clear for 25 pumps. Approximately 200 pumps on the left rear, 300 on the right front and 100 on the left front. As I said these were tiny bubbles but enough that the reservoir was half empty by the time I'd finished. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) |
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