Time to un-DAPO the "new" car, Bad things happened to a nice car Options

[Montreal914]

Yes, that is what I was referring to. I am sure you will keep an eye on it once driving regularly the car.

Nice progress! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smash.gif)

[BillC]

RE: your relay board.

All of the relay boards have the boss for the brass insert, but they dropped the insert, the shaft and the knob in 75.

Take the old relay board and use a bolt and socket to extract the brass insert. Then press it into the new relay board. Put a drop of super glue in the hole before pressing in the insert.

That's an excellent suggestion, @ClayPerrine ! I just posted a wanted ad for an old, broken relay board in the Classifieds forum, since my old board was still working when the car arrived -- I'd rather trash something already broken instead of one that appears to still be usable.

If anyone has an old, broken relay board with a good threaded insert that they want to get rid of, please let me know. Thanks!

[BillC]

Got a little more work done on the car. Installed new clutch, gas and heater control cables. Also installed the rebuilt pedal cluster, new gas pedal, shifter and shift rod (front half) and heater control lever. Since I marked the shift rod on the shifter before I took them out, the shifter should be fairly close to the proper alignment, but won't know for sure until the engine and trans are back in.

Pedals:


Shifter:


Cables and shift rod:



I also started to take a look at installing the heat exchangers on the engine. That's when I discovered that my great pile of muffler gaskets are all for 1.7L engines. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) So, now I have some 2.0L gaskets on order....

[930cabman]

Lookin good, what will you be applying to the floor?

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[BillC]

Lookin good, what will you be applying to the floor?

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For now, I'm just going to leave the factory asphalt sound deadening, and will put new carpets over them. At some point in the future, if I keep the car long enough, I will eventually treat it to a full restoration that will start with stripping everything down to bare metal, and I'll deal with flooring applications then.

[GregAmy]

So as part of the DAPO crowd (this is the first thread that popped up when I searched...) Trying to find out what my speedo doesn't work in the new-to-me 968 (no worries, I still have the 914) and I find this...

"Why"? Because the PO was trying to extinguish the airbag light from when he installed a Momo wheel (which I covered with a resistor).

So tell me why we do this?

I now have speedo- and odo-age. Cruise still doesn't work though.

Sigh...

[BillC]

So as part of the DAPO crowd (this is the first thread that popped up when I searched...) Trying to find out what my speedo doesn't work in the new-to-me 968 (no worries, I still have the 914) and I find this...

"Why"? Because the PO was trying to extinguish the airbag light from when he installed a Momo wheel (which I covered with a resistor).

So tell me why we do this?

I now have speedo- and odo-age. Cruise still doesn't work though.

Sigh...

Duct tape and wire nuts. That's some outstanding DAPO-tastic work there.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif)

[BillC]

Things have been pretty busy around here, as usual, but I managed to squeeze a little 914 time in this weekend.

I was going to start mounting up the used heat exchangers I bought years ago, so I pulled them out of the shelves to get started. However, once I got a good look at them, I decided I had to spend at least a little time trying to clean them up.

Here's how the first one looked:


I tried a few cleaning chemicals lying around in the garage, but none of them made a noticeable dent in the baked-on crud. So I stopped, stepped back and thought a bit (yeah, I almost set the smoke alarm off with those thoughts (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lol-2.gif) ) -- what gets used for cleaning baked-on oily gunk? Oven Cleaner! So I went up stairs, and managed to dig out a can from under the sink. I still had to use quite a bit of elbow grease while I was at it, but it did a reasonably nice job.


I did top and bottom of both heat exchangers, wiped them off and then took them outside and hosed them off. I think they turned out pretty good:


It ended up taking a couple of hours, but they look sooo much better than before.

[930cabman]

The heat exchangers cleaned up nicely, make sure you check the sealing surfaces. It's easy to have an exhaust leak when they do not seal good at the copper washers