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General process for restoration 914 |
Stuckon914 |
Jan 18 2020, 12:37 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 132 Joined: 25-December 18 From: East coast Member No.: 22,747 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
I just started restoring my mostly rusty 914/4, 73. I’m looking for parts and a donor car but want to start. Plan is complete tear down and then repair, replace and reassemble. Likely years beginning to end. I took all weather stripping off, carpet and seats out to clean and inspect but need advice in organizing.
For the more experienced what works? Do you start in one area, take everything off, clean, record, label and store away based on section of car? All left door bits go in ‘left door’ tote with each part labeled. Do you track parts working condition or is that more assembly section. I’ve worked on cars before but never to this level of tear down. I’ve searched and got more lost. |
bbrock |
Jan 18 2020, 12:59 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,269 Joined: 17-February 17 From: Montana Member No.: 20,845 Region Association: Rocky Mountains |
+1 on ziplocks and sharpie labels. Also, take lots of reference pics and tag or organize them so you can easily find them later. No matter how many you take, you will wish you had more.
Where my system failed was in the tote department. I used pretty big totes and tried to separate parts roughly by the categories in the parts catalog (e.g. body, interior, engine, etc.) but adjusted to what would fit in totes. For example, I wound up consolidating front/rear trunk and engine bay. Like I said, the system failed and I have wasted a lot of time trying to figure out which f-ing tote/category I put a part in. Smaller totes and more precise categories might have helped but I'm kind of an organizational disaster no matter what. I did not clean and catalog condition up front. Instead, I would pull a tote out and work on it in the evenings while watching TV, evaluating, cleaning, ordering replacement parts and reassembling. That worked well for me as it kept me making progress even when I didn't have time to complete major tasks. It is paying huge dividends now that I'm in reassembly mode because most of the parts are already refurbished and it just a matter of bolting them in. |
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