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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. |
914forme |
Jan 18 2020, 06:44 PM
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Times a wastin', get wrenchin'! Group: Members Posts: 3,896 Joined: 24-July 04 From: Dayton, Ohio Member No.: 2,388 Region Association: None |
Decide on how much you can really handle your going to need to know this before you get into it. 4-5 years is not uncommon.
Over the years I have bought several peoples projects. The worst was a CJ-5 that they took apart, bought tons of parts, a fiberglass body, did not document crap. Took 3 years. I got it when I was 12, had it done the summer of my 15th year of existence, drove it around the yard for a year, and then got my license. Fired it up, drove it 30 feet on the road, turned around and never drove it again. Next day I went and picked up a Karmann Ghia. Anther project, I keep that one running while I did the restoration on the weekends and over the summer. Best one, was a Z that the original owner a German machinist picked up to put a Ferrari GTO Kit on. He documented everything, had it cataloged, cleaned and bagged. I got the binder with every part listed what tub it was in, and pictures of every single step, also cataloged with cross references to pages in the manuals. It was the best build I had done, so easy. He just lost interest as it was taking to long. He had a 3 series BMW at that time. My first suggestion is if you have never driven one, go take a 914 for a spin. I learned a lot from that Jeep, but never got to truly enjoy the fruits of my labor. |
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