luckily, the frost is gone here (even though it was no where near as cold as with you norhtern guys) and I don't think we'll have anymore this year...
So it's back to the same old same old drooly depressive dutch weather
I did work on the 914 tonight!
(my wife actually made me go to the garage, dunno if she was tired of me or if she wants the car done)
I sorta test-fitted the steeringwheel and recaro seat (the wife was VERY happy to finally see that one move out of the house and into the garage).
I definatly need a quickrelease for the steeringwheel, otherwise there is no way I'm ever gonna get into that seat once the rollcage has been installed...
Next I took off the rear suspension. Wow, that was easy for a change!
Either the shocks or the bushings (or maybe both) were pretty frozen up.
With the rear controlarm all the way down, I could actually jack the car up from the controlarm without the suspension moving an inch!
Luckily, everything unbolted smoothly, so that wasn't a problem.
Then I crawled a little further under the car to stare at the rusty framerails...
I think I found a way to save the tub.
Last time I looked at this, I was close to giving up on it, which I really hated 'cause I made some kind of stoopid commitment to myself to use this tub and not 'whimp out'.
I gave the front struts another try, but still couldn't get the struts to seperate from the a-arms.
I tried putting a stand under the hub, and
-ing the arm, like Brad suggested and I tried heat, but neither would work.
I'll give it one more try next time, or otherwise I'll get nasty and hit the a-arms with an angled grinder
(the a-arms and struts are crap anyway, so there's nothing lost).
Cheers,
Jeroen