i've lurked here for a couple days and now it is time to get serious. the site handle is no exaggeration. i'm a commited MG guy. i have four of them. i bought the first one as a daily driver 8 years ago ('77 tourer) and have added three more of them as projects. the first project i bought four years ago. it was a total rust bucket and hadn't run in probably 15 years. i spent all of last winter on it and drove it all last summer ('72 GT). it is now apart again for the winter "to do" list. i have two more projects waiting. they are both really rare (on this side of the pond) four door MGs--a '58 ZB Magnette and a '64 Magnette Mark IV (Farina).
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about a month ago a guy asked me to do some "9 to 5" work for him (white collar stuff...not important here) and while he didn't have much $, he did have a non-running '75 914 for trade. i thought about it for about 10 seconds and then agreed. now, the only mechanical training i have is self taught and hard knocks stuff, but on my britcars i've done brakes, suspension, electical, body work, welding, engine rebuilding, carpet, and pretty much everything else, so i'm up to the job. i just have to figure it out. the sign in my garage says "home for wayward sportscars" after all, and thus the 914 qualifies. the catch is that i have more whitworth wrenches than metric--i can do whatever needs to be done, i'll just need guidance.
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so, sorry to be long-winded, but thought you should know. right now the car is in town at a shop that i trade work with...they do whatever on my boring modern cars when needed. the 914 needs a couple things to get it going so i can figure out what it needs more long term. the shop fab'ed a new bracket for the throttle cable so it could be reconnected to the Weber carb. the other issues are sticking calipers and a FUBARed pedal assembly. i had the shop pull all four calipers and the pedal assembly. i have all of those bits in my shop now and am going to rebuild them for the shop to put back onto the car. i've looked at the classic threads on caliper rebuilding and pedal box rebuilding and am getting started. hang on for a couple pics and then we'll start the actual work.
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so, for starters...i've read the classic thread on pedal box rebuilding and while my assembly looks nasty, i've all surface rust. i'm having a time getting the clutch pedal pin out. it has a hole all the way through it. is that original? is it a rolled pin and thus hollow? which way is easier to get it out, up or down? (pic following...i've ground off the end of the pin...it was mushroomed.)
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