Worse than a rookie, the story is here: http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?s=&...t&p=2023586

Pulled my '76 914 out of the shop for the first time in seven years. Insured and licensed the car, and then took the wife for a drive up to the Oregon Caves. Now the car has a little over 80K on the odometer. I had forgotten how low these cars sit and how awkward it is to get in and out now that I am no longer a youngster. Click to view attachment

A couple of days ago my GPS Speedo quit. As I had just connected a few other items in the console I looked there first. Sure enough I had pulled a wire loose from it's connection. A quick fix then back on the road. Yesterday, I hop in the car and no speedo, again! Shit sticks! So I check the fuse, OK. Out comes the console face again but everything is intact this time. As I put things back I notice a small red wire hanging next to the consoles left side. I thought this is easy but how in the Hell did I do that? Upon closer examination I discover another small red wire torn as well as a white one AND the small coaxial antenae cable ripped in two places. Rat attack? Cat from Hell? Vandalism? Nope. The problem was this DACO. I had run some wires too close to the U-Joint on the steering column and I had stuffed the extra 10' of antenae wire next to it. Once I realized I had ripped the wiring apart with the shaft it made sense. After a couple of hours of splicing and cussing it's working again. I shortened that antenae cable about 10' while I was at it. The moral to this story is that U-Joint is fairly well concealed by the same braces that make it an open invitation to pass thru when wiring. Easily avoided by securing wiring but I got lazy and it bit me in the ass. I remember the second it happened, now. I felt a bit of resistance in the wheel then it was gone. I thought , I'll check it later.

Is it WRONG, if you refurbish a Targa top, install new Targa top holders in the trunk,
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AND THEN FIND OUT THE TRUNK LID WONT CLOSE ALL THE WAY ????????

Is it WRONG, if you install new s/s brake lines and new steel lines to the calipers,
then decide to pull out the e-brake cables for some massive liquid wrench soaking
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And then LEAVE the cables in the outside garbage to drain and remember today that the garbage was picked up early this morning.
What a productive weekend

That flexible line looks too long to me. It should not drop down that far. Could you have mixed up the fronts and rears?

Failed fuel pump. Thought I would paint the tank and replace all the rubber fuel hose.

Two months later the tank is out of the car still, rusting on the inside and car is sitting.

I didn't work on it- again.

How about - "dropping the engine to replace the motor mounts only to learn that you do NOT have to drop the engine to replace the motor mounts?"

Hopefully does not turn into:
"learning that you should not support an engine on a hydraulic jack for more than a few minutes without shoring it up."

When I was a LOT younger, and Betty and I were still dating, she and I installed sway bars on her 914. I was welding the nut plates in the front wheel wells. I had a spark land right on the family jewels. It burned through my jeans and burned the hell out of me. I have never jumped up so fast in my life. Betty laughed at me.

One time I was pulling my 914 transmission in a friends garage, by myself, and it fell off the jack, rolling over as it did so. It then smashed the fingers on my left hand between the sharp edge of the motor mount and the concrete. Had to have stitches to both reattach the tendon in the finger, and to close up the gash. At the hospital, the nurse (think Sha

When I was a LOT younger, and Betty and I were still dating, she and I installed sway bars on her 914. I was welding the nut plates in the front wheel wells. I had a spark land right on the family jewels. It burned through my jeans and burned the hell out of me. I have never jumped up so fast in my life. Betty laughed at me.

One time I was pulling my 914 transmission in a friends garage, by myself, and it fell off the jack, rolling over as it did so. It then smashed the fingers on my left hand between the sharp edge of the motor mount and the concrete. Had to have stitches to both reattach the tendon in the finger, and to close up the gash. At the hospital, the nurse (think Shaq lookalike) told me to wash it out when it was numbed. I started washing, looked at him and said "This looks like chicken fat". The guy in the next ER stall heard me and that set him off . The nurse told me I was mean. Then I proceeded to criticize the doctor's stitches (she looked like Melissa Rauch). She threatened that she would have me kept overnight for evaluation, and she would include a prostrate exam for being a critic.

I worked on a 71 911 one time that really ate my lunch. The owner brought it in with transmission issues. I was able to fix it because I know 901 transmissions in 914s. I pulled the engine and trans, and fixed the transmission. I put it all back together, put the engine and trans back in the car, and start it up. I put it in reverse to pull out of the bay, and it goes forward. If you haven't figured it out, I put the differential in like a 914, not a 911. So it had 1 forward gear and 5 reverse gears. And this is not a 914, so I got to pull the engine and trans out again to flip the differential.


I also painted a 914 bright PURPLE with house paint and thick napped rollers. Most fun I ever had painting a car!


That is just a very short sample of the dumb things I have done with 914s over the years. And as they used to say on the Sonny and Cher show "The beat goes on."

Wrong??

Didn't work on it, no time....

Love this thread.

Wanted to mount an amp for the stereo, years ago.
I found what I thought was a perfect hidden spot up under the dash on the passenger side.
Drilled a hole to mount it, pulled out the bit from the successful hole I drill, upside down, and gas started squirting out.

I did Learn how to pull a fuel tank in under 1 minute as a result....

Where is it hitting, Steve? ... front or rear?

Wasn't there a DPO thread? I couldn't find it, but this qualifies as wrong, except I didn't do it. Really I swear. Found this on a 914 I am taking apart.


Good workmanship on the backside.

It is not even a genuine German gate hinge.

in the picture it looks like the front is not sitting down like it should. Maybe the latches are not in the cups? the front edge of the top should be in the plastic retaing clips. if they are the top should fit fine.

A few weeks ago the turbo 1.7 developed a fuel supply issue. I was going up hill on my way to work and lost power. I pulled over and I waited for my guy to bring the truck and trailer. I could hear the pump running but figured a clogged fuel filter or clogged pickup was restricting flow. Since the shop is super busy right now it's been about a month and I finally had time to get it up on the lift. But before I lifted it I decided I should check for a clogged pickup first. Well apparently my fuel level sender is stuck, because I peeked in the tank and THERES NO GAS!

Doh

Oops,
Didn't see this thread pop back up.
Wasn't sure what it is supposed to look like, but I chose the shorter pair of flexible hoses that came in the kit. I didn't perceive it as a hazard area, but will look closer now.
Thanks for looking at it.

Mark/Phillip,
I had not seen your comments until tonight.
I am not sure where it was hitting as I have not got back to it yet. I have been concentrating on the interior and put the top back on to protect my work done so far. I was concerned about the latches hitting the cups awkwardly, but thought as long as it was fitted in the front holders it would be placed properly.
Thanks for looking at it

I replaced a small fuse block with a larger one. Then spent the next 45 min's trying to figure out why it wouldn't crank. I had re-connected the fuse block feed to a switched source and the switched source ain't going to work if it has no power. Once that was straightened out I noticed my backup lights are on and the engine is off. I had tied that back into a Bat+ circuit. Pendejo