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Wished I could have made it. I woke up around 5 and my back was still bugging me, so I went back to bed

I got up again around 10 and drove the 'BB' to get my 'late' morning coffee. Much later in the day and after medicating, I [carefully] loaded a bunch of boxes of car parts into the Vanagon. Most are parts for my wife's '71 restoration and "have no business sitting around the house" (at least that's what she said)

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Going back in time, G e o r g e came by the shop on Friday to take the tour and pick up a seat. He also helped me loaded up a cherry-picker hoist to bring home. There's 4 engines that need to get over to the shop, (1) T4, (1) 901 and (2) 616s), and having the hoist here will allow me get them loaded up into the Vanagon easier. I can borrow a hoist from a neighboring shop to unload and hoist them up onto their respective engine stands

Then the fun begins ... tearing them apart and/or reassembling them

Took mine out to Home Depot yesterday To buy fertilizer and de-moss'er for the yard. This crazy damp PNW winter has moss growing like crazy. Car running amazing and cool weather for top off.

Today I am taking it to a meeting. Dressed in a shirt and a tie.
When was the last time you drove your 914 wearing a tie? Pinky up! I hope I see a 911.

Perfect day to dig her out of the Garage I keep it in during the winter.

I had to cut a path 200 ft long, 6 ft wide, in the 10-14 inch high snow from the garage to the road. The path is unpaved lawn, with Ice under the packed snow. It's 50 degrees today and things are starting to melt quickly so today was the time to do it before the lawn under the snow and ice turns to mud.

There's a slight incline and I thought if this was front wheel drive car it would be an easy drive. So, I backed it out in reverse the entire way! Worked great to my surprise.

She fired right up with the second turn of the key and ran perfectly for the first time since being stored last fall. I only drove it a short distance to the other garage we have which is attached to the house. Can't take it any where yet cause the roads are salted and there's lots of run off of the melting snow on the roads. But once the melt is over and some expected rain hits us this week things will dry out and the salt will be gone.

Ready for Hershey, I put new Sachs Boge Shocks and Struts on her over the winter and can't wait to see how much they improve the ride over the KYB's I took off.]My Webpage[/url] ]My Webpage[/url]

Love zambezi green! A color that looks perfect on a 914 or 911 but not any other car!

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The end result of a beautiful Seattle day! Despite being in a meeting ALL day. I got the drive in (top off and head cold) and back home with a nice evening drive. Good for my soul.

Good for the soul. Yesterday I drove 550 miles in 8-9 hours, first 3 hours topless. No head cold, but did get sunburned since I forgot my driving hat. Only got 31mpg.

Topless is always good for the soul.

Drove it. In the rain! Only had it since Jan and had not been out in rainy weather yet. So I wanted to see if she leaked anywhere. Other than needing new wiper blades, all dry on the inside. Frunk a little wet, Trunk dry as a bone, engine compartment a little wet (I am running rain tray).

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Now - I GOTTA work on those mismatched headlight surrounds...

Started it up and pulled it out of the garage to do a little garage clean up.

I used my new Tire Chief lift for the first time, and rotated my tires. Now I am going for a .

Drove home to Durango from Albuquerque after meeting Eric, Jamie and Andy at Turtle Mountain on their way to Amelia Island.

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Yeah, I was going to ask who gave your car a black eye?



All I got to do was open the door and retrieve a couple of receipts from the center storage box

Today was my birthday. I took the day off work and drove to Alice's in Woodside for lunch. Then I took Hwy 35 to Half Moon Bay before heading down Hwy 1 to Santa Cruz. Along the way to Santa Cruz I stopped to check out the surf and views. While in Santa Cruz, I stopped at Marianne's for some 10/20 ice cream then headed home to San Jose.

The car ran like a champ. What a great way to spend the afternoon.

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Crawled under to take some exhaust measurements and noticed a few drops of brake fluid on the floor. Found that I had never tightened the inverted flare nut properly and 2000 miles later it began to leak.

Beautiful car and ...I know that spot...what a killer view and picture.

I picked up one of my crankshafts from my machinist today. It's a Std./Std. 2.0 crankshaft magnafluxed and polished. Ready to go! Click to view attachment

Cleaned roof, moved car to safety.
Snow all gone, moved it back.

Great looking car Mike!

New turbo tie rods and lower ball joint. This is the only picture I took during the process.


Edit: Pic Fixed

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85 today,

... and we've got overcast conditions out here today, after a week of nice hot sunny weather


Gotta go to the shop, unload and shelve a half-ton of parts that have been sitting in the Vanagon for a few days now

While I'm there, need to decide on which set of wheels to put new tires on for the 'BB' before the RT-66 Run ... (another set of ATS Classics, Dan Gurneys or 5.5" stock steelies)

These magically appeared today.….

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From Ebay? I saw some there.

Got these for Scarlet


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Andy

Not eBay, they were on a guy's shelf since '01.

I made him dig them out.

I see you have "the tool" for this project.

How long did it take you?

That is my next project and wanna get it done before the WCR.

continued break down on my 911 front end.
the stock shocks were beyond borked.

Chad told me that it took him all weekend... but it's hit or miss. Mine only took me 4-5 hours. Depends on how much rust you have and how stuck everything is.

The tool is awesome. I also loaned Chad my set of toe plates so he could get the steering dialed in. IMHO, they're worth investing in, even if you don't do your own alignments.

Which tool are you guys referring to? I need to do this job soon and any special tools to make it easier I'd like to get in advance.

Which tool are you guys referring to? I need to do this job soon and any special tools to make it easier I'd like to get in advance.

Got out for the first drive added some fuel system cleaner and topped up the tank with some fresh 93 octane. Jumped on it just a little......

I supposed to test drive my 75 1.8 if I will get more than 220 degrees F after 5 lug conversion. Well I have to finish wife car before anything else. Replaced front rotors with new pads and inner tie rod.

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I drove it! first time in 2015... it was a cold couple of months here.
Finally had enough rain this past weekend to wash the salt off the roads.

It got up to 91 &deg here in the South Bay today ...so I took a little drive in the 'BB' and picked up some cold liquid refreshments

Worked on Eileen and one of my little Hondas when I got home (have week-long desert outing coming up next week).

I made the decision to mount my new set of 195/65-15 Kumho tires on a spare set of ATS Classics, so I grabbed everything from the shop in preparation.

Film at 11 ...

I lowered and measured the front end of Speedy: Measure, crank, drive, measure, drive,crank, measure, drive. Perfect. I don't know why I'm doing this as all new suspension goes on next week.

Picked up 2.0 pipes I had ceramic coated and a powder coated gauge panel.

Sounds like some great stuff you are doing with this car, Lawrence! This car is going to be killer when you get done with it, then you can sell it to me.

so after 6 days , these are still not dry, i have a feeling this will take a month for the enamel to fully cure. just too thick in the outside area - spraying will take longer to tape off but pouring them makes it too thick to dry fast. - the first one i did took over a month to cure and harden, but that is ty pical of an oil based enamel.

i was hoping i could mount it before the cars and coffee next weekend but i dont think it will be ready.

- btw as someone suggested, i did clean out the holes where the lug nuts seat so that they would be metal on metal
they do look pretty good though!

It's that spanner wrench in the backround on the ground. There is a member here who laser cut some out from some HSLA steel.

I borrowed one from a local member here so I could do mine this month.

Finshed up my LED light conversions with Spoke's signals all around, then all the "other" bulbs too...was thinking of making up a bulb guide for all the extras --Did both front side markers, the license plate lights, the trunk light and interior dome bulb
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Looks good. I'd be interested in seeing that guide if you decide to compile it. Thanks.

Looks great, Eric.

Thanks!! It's a big change, the pictures don't really capture the "magic" you get in person... Now the only thing left is a couple of interior bulbs and $$$$ headlights $$$$

It was 95 degrees here today, so I didn't feel compelled to work on a black car

Instead, did some more prepping for my desert camping trip next week. Had to locate more camping equipment and deal with a flat tire on the Z50 I'm taking. I disassembled the rear wheel but couldn't get the bead to lose it's grip on the wheel ... ended up just swapping a wheel from another [non-running] bike.

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Since components of the uncooperative wheel are apart, I sanded and painted the hub with Dupli-color #DE1615 (Aluminum) to see how close it matches the original color. Looks like a good match to me

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While rummaging, I ran across an envelope with some cool suspension wrenches that Doug (dlee6204) made. One of them was already starting to rust, so I filed the sharp edges and threw a heavy coat of Rustoleum Rust Reformer on it. I'll do the same to other one later.

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Hope to get back to working on the 'BB' this week end ... RT-66 Run is getting close

Is that the wrench that holds the bar in the rack and pinion? I need to borrow that!

I was having trouble seating my front Targa Top Seal (that I purchased from 914Rubber awhile back) onto the rail, And then it hit me - Lube the rubber up with a little soapy water -
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Yeah Baby
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