Received the breather today.

Here it is pictured with a regular paint can for size. A little bigger than I thought but I should be able to find a decent spot for it.


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Nice looking part.

Cairo94507 post Dec 16 2017, 06:10 AM
Nice looking part.


Thanks for the support guys.

Progress has slowed considerably here but I have pretty much finished up the interior with the driver seat and roof now installed. Waiting on my steering wheel now.

I might have sat in it the other day and went vroom vroom when no one was looking. But there's no pics and I'll never admit it.
Next: more underside.


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A good lesson on what NOT to do (don’t put shit off)

Had always the thought the bottom of the floor pan would not be any kind of priority…..until I started cleaning it up. I just put it off never contemplating doing anything to it and should have done this way back.

Turns out to be in pretty good shape mostly. That's the good news!

This is how the car has looked for over 2 weeks as I have continued working on cleaning and doing a bit of minor repair on the bottom almost every day just a little bit. Waiting till late in the game meant wrapping up the car to keep the sanding dust off. This of course led to covering the underside of the engine too. And should have done all this when it was 80 instead of now! Almost done!

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Got my steering wheel back and the hand leather wrap came out fantastic! Local guy does very good work. Installing soon.

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Progress! I was out in the garage 11 hours.

Took 5 small things off the list yesterday, which sounds impressive……but then I added 2 more. Well the list is shorter ultimately. One of the small things was to fab this support bracket for the oil hard line under the engine, I felt it just needed to be supported. Several locations and bracket types explored this one seemed the best compromise.

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Saw somewhere posted on this site not that long ago a cool picture of a clock related to a car that took forever to finish and the thought got stuck in my head. I needed a clock like that! Today I made mine.
So here it is and it helps keep things in perspective. Every multi year project deserves one!
January looking good to finish it! Yes 2018


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Jim,

Where did you get the steering wheel wrapped?

I'm going to need mine done soon as well and yours looks great!

Mike

Escondido Custom Upholstery. Oscar is a great guy to deal with. Small shop, intensive detail. If you can stop by his shop soon you can see a car he is working on now. Amazing work!
He has done 2 for me now. Tell him I said Hi.

Turns out thats is the same shop / guy that did the upholstery (what little there was of it) on my dads race car.

I will definitely be bringing my stuff to him.

Thanks Jim!

Mike

Everything happens for a reason.

Drove up for the first time to Cars and Coffee yesterday in San Clemente hoping to meet up with and talk to 914 guys. Got to hang out with Lawrence, Steve, Keith, and Forrest. Yes, my car is still on jack stands. It helps with motivation to talk with 914-6 conversion guys and see their cars. Forrest was in from AZ and rode in with Keith.

Looking in Lawrence’s very clean frunk I got to talking with Forrest about expansion tank’s and charcoal canisters. Mine was removed apparently so I was all ears when Forrest was talking about long sweeping left curves generating strong fuel smell in the cabin without them.

This morning I went to check out my current set up. I like the clean look without the expansion tank or charcoal canister. But........

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Right now I am missing the large overflow hose leading from the tank filler surround that exits under the car and I’m currently working on replacing that. But the small hose that is in the filler neck visible when you remove the gas cap had a small hose leading down below and behind the tank. Pulling up that hose I found it was far too short and would not have poked out the bottom of the car AND it appeared to be clogged! So, had I not gone to C&C I would not have discovered the clogged vent hose or length.

I’m in a quandary as to whether my ’74 6 conversion needs an expansion tank and canister? Found a thread here recently addressing 1970 expansion tanks and am resurrecting it to get wider insight and recommendations for my situation.

I see no evidence (in terms of holes at the red line by the antenna hole) on my car of the hoses being routed to the engine compartment so don’t know what a ’74 originally had and can't tell from this.
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Of course now I wish I 'd have looked closer at Lawrence's set up or taken pics! Duh!
To be clear I am not looking for originality more functionality.

I'm no expert on the expansion tank and charcoal filter but my car never had either connected in my ownership and I never had a problem with fuel smells. The car had been converted to carbs.

With the six conversion now both the charcoal canister and expansion will be left in the parts bin.

All the 4’s had the expansion tank and charcoal filter.

While building a Factory Five cobra replica, created a homemade charcoal canister for less than $15. 8" PVC pipe, 2 PVC end caps (one drilled in the center to mount a brass hose coupling, the other perforated with multiple drill holes), a piece of screen to cover the perforations, and some aquarium charcoal.

That is the same direction I am headed and I will not install them either. Carbs here too. Thanks and hope your making good progress!

I'm sure you are correct I just don't see where the hoses may have gone from the front trunk toward the engine is all. Oh well.

Thanks and as I said in my last post, planning to just keep the clean look without them. I was more concerned as to whether it was actually a necessity. Apparently not.

Thanks Rick cool idea but on further digging I'm just running without them and fix my hose routing. I did have the expansion tank already and Lawrence was going to give me a charcoal filter so it was not a parts problem. Gook luck with your car.

Good idea on the deletion of the expansion tank and charcoal canister ...

So to do this, one just needs to cap the nipple at the neck of the fuel filler?

No, I would not cap that small nipple in the neck but rather run a short hose to a "T" in the larger over flow hose coming from the filler surround.
I found these pics in a thread related to the same subject on real 914-6 expansion tank discussion.

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But as shown in this pic running the expansion hose to the "T", instead run the hose from the filler neck nipple to the "T". My current plan.
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Or you could just run the small hose and the larger one out the bottom of the car if you can't find a "T"

You don't want the tank to "pressurize".

Awesome, thanks for the expansion/charcoal deletion information. I like that it will look a lot cleaner in that area and lose a tiny bit of weight at the same time.

Trunk Is Finished! I think….

Finally received my fire extinguishers after almost 2 months!

Look back a few posts to #365 where I learned all about fire extinguishers and took coondog’s recommendation on which ones to buy plus Defianty’s inspiration on the custom trunk board.

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So I had a nice board in the frunk but I now had to anchor that board in order to mount the extinguishers to it so nothing can fly around. Created some mount brackets.

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And an aluminum board stiffener / extinguisher mount.


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And there is actually just a little room left


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Stud. You are definitely obsessed.

Jim's car is awesome, he's right at that point before fire-up where you can't wait to just drive it and have a normal running car.

Been there, done that.

PM sent.

Oh Jim-

Looking good!!!!

You are almost at the finish line...I think your temporary wall calendar slowed you down.



Congrats!!!!!!!

Oscar

Yes I guess I am. That was a complement right? Thanks!

You said you wanted the car to go to someone who would finish it. That's me!

I had a goal to get it off the jack stands of last week and that didn't happen and now this week is already drawing to a close

Actually it is a good thing I am not rushed because I keep finding stuff under the car to do so it is OK. Got a lot done today including under the car about 10 times.

Thank you sir, that is quite a complement! Right on, I am getting closer to that point of right "before fire up"!

And you are 100% correct I am getting anxious to drive it.

Thing is I want it "done" like you took the car to someone and then you pick it up "DONE" done. Sure there will be sort out stuff getting it running but that's expected. Getting close now. 5 hours on it today again.

Thanks for the PM on fire extinguishers points taken!

Thanks Oscar for weighing in! Yeah that temporary calendar slowed me way down.
Actually with what I got done today the list IS shorter and nothing got added to it for a change. I will post more later with pics.

Nope wasn’t done in the front trunk!

Not so funny but really good story in the end. A while back Jett posted WTB for an original gas tank overflow drain hose. I knew I had one and at the time was focused on the engine and engine compartment and had not visited the frunk in a while (there is a hint). I was happy to help him out and sell him this very dark colored somewhat stiff but still somewhat pliable original hose.

Fast forward a few months to when I realized I had sold Jett MY hose because when I sold it I completely thought mine was installed and this one was extra.

I sent him a PM just wanting to share my experience, my stupid mistake, and word to the wise to always check your car before selling anything. Duh! I was not looking for it back, but that I was now looking for a replacement myself now.

To my surprise he said "Thanks for reaching out" and he had a friend who found some plastic tubing that was close. And he’d check and see if he still had it. Well he did and he got me a piece and he even shipped to me it free! How cool is that?

Have to say it is great hose and does not kink. Don’t know much more than that about the hose but it works perfect and I wanted give credit where credit is due to Jett for being such a cool guy. Thanks Jett I am totally happy with this hose.

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Looking at the picture above, to the left of the new "Jett" yellow gas tank overflow hose, are my oil cooler hoses headed back down toward the longs and to the engine. Always thought that hose routing decision had eliminated the windshield washer bottle. Until now. I was looking at dimpling in the bottom of the washer bottle yesterday to create room but it actually went right in. Crazy! Replaced brake reservoir hose, Gas tank vent hose, and windshield washer hoses too. Small stuff I know compared to guys doing major welding and such, which is humbling, but they will likely need to do all this little crap too one day. It all counts.
OK now done with the frunk! For real! Back to the engine compartment.

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Thank you for the kind words but it’s easy to help someone with such passion. I’ve been restoring cars as a hobby for many years and this is by far the best community of enthusiast’s and people. ...probably why we keep restoring 914’s

Btw. Now the cars are bonded by the hose

Cheers!

Funny, that hose looks like it is either filled with coolant or soylent green. Glad it works well though.

As a test, I too decided to ditch the charcoal and recovery tank set up on my car. I will report back as to gas smells. I rarely top off my tank, so that may lend itself to no fumes, but we shall see.

Yeah that's it! Soylent Green!
This hose, although it may not be the correct color, is not your normal clear hose you get at Depot that kinks when you look at it. This does not kink on that radius out of the tank.

Be sure to run a hose from that small breather at the top of the gas tank filler neck all the way down and out the bottom of the pan or you will get fumes. I wonder if that may have been Forresthaag's issue?

Can't wait to hear.

I did, of course.

I feel so good dropping 4.25 pounds out of the car!

Much faster now right? Bet you could tell right away!

Here is where the breather ended up. I was trying to leave as much room as possible by the oil filter for changing.


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Picture of Engine. Really close now!


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Looks great!! When are we going to see you at the next Cars & Coffee with the car?

Wow, you are getting close! Give me a call when you are ready for the maiden voyage and I will bring down a batch of the commemorative ale I had brewed up for the car.

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Firing the engine up and taking that first drive is a really exciting and special experience! This is especially true after all the great work you have done to your car.

Jeff B

Thanks Steve! I make no promises
Step 1. Get it down off jack stands.
Step 2. Get it running
Step 3. Sort it out

Same here Jim...keep us posted as I would enjoy meeting up at Cars & Coffee too.

I will for sure take you up on that offer! Commemorative ale who knew? I will let you know.
Cool pic of the car on jack stands. Very cool
Thanks

Looking great Jim! Can't wait to see pics of the car out on the road.

Thanks, Looking forward to it!

At the end of my build and initial start up, I made list after list of "to do" stuff. I just kept at it, checking them off one by one, and sooner or later I ran out of excuses.

Then I went to get gas and started it. It started right up and even idled really well.

F*&%king great feeling!!!!!!