Mikey is a guilt free man, just reproducing better products than Porsche (THANKS)

BUT, have you ever spend the entire afternoon putting these on?????

Why not have an over lapping slit down the side, that can be secured with glue, tape, or anything besides threading a bundle or wires through seems like itcie bitsit tinney winnie hole?



OK rant is over, I got them installed. For other victims Teeners, what's the easiest way to do this??

Bill,

I've always heard that ole Hans & Deiter at the factory made it go smoother with a few dark brown lagers at lunch!



Cheers!
Tom
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So that's where I went wrong Tom. Lagers now should have come before! Cheers

Yeah, installing it blows.

A couple of dark brown lagers makes anything go smoother.

lol....... Too funny. If that is the reverse switch wire boot (looks similar to the one on the 912E), It took 2 Sam Adams for me. After several attempts took a break, two beers then back to a few non critical things that needed to be done. It popped on before I knew it. Of course I just laid on my back under the car listening to Pink Floyd and took an impromptu nap, but that's another story

**EDIT** Was bouncing around 914 Rubber website tonight (great site, and man your selection has really increased) and came across the part. Yeah, not what I thought..... lol

Lots of liquid dish soap, still torn one.
Good luck.
Mike

Probably using a heat gun and some gloves would help make them a bit more receptive to stretching...

............hey, watch it there parter......this is a family blog

Dark Brown Lager?????

What the....

It's called ale guys!

:-)

As for fitting the rubber lighting cable boots, a dusting of Talcum Powder inside the boot and on the loom works wonders and is much better than any liquid lube that makes things slippy to handle, isn't good for electrical insulation and advances corrosion of brass connections and copper wire.

I think the objective is to make them water tight in the wheel well is why no slit. Use glycerin it install, it will lubricate, and also soften and preserve the rubber and wire insulation, keeps it all supple and less likely cracking.

+1^^^ Glycerin. Smear some on the rest of your door and top rubber while you're at it, keeps it soft and stops squeaks.

Don't buy it in suppository form. Rite aid sells it by the bottle.

This would have helped me... as I struggled with getting mine on

lager is German cold fermentation
ale is a brit thing. warm beer

OMG ...warm beer

It's not warm beer, it's cool. Nothing that's stored in the basement of any British pub is going to be "warm". Hell, there's nothing on that whole island that's "warm" except the women.

Here's an example.

Click to view attachment

From "how do I" to lube and suppositories closing out with beer...
Only on 914 World!




(and proud of it!)

Very funny guy’s….

Ale has been around since 4000BC (which is the oldest recorded recipe, some think it goes back another 8000 years before written records) unlike the modern invention of refrigeration and is best served at room temperature to get the best flavours.

In UK we only refrigerate or cool poor quality beers or wines (usually imported stuff) so you can’t taste how bad they really are.

The real test is if the beer you're drinking tastes bad a room temperature, your tasting it for what it really is, and that's bad beer.

Chilling it numbs your taste sensors, and while it may increase the "refreshing quality" it masks the true flavour.

Putting it another way, if you deep chilled a glass of your own pee, it would improve the taste and refreshing quality if you drank it ice cold.

Beers taken potentially 12000 years to perfect, why ruin it in the last 100 years by cooling it!

I was commenting on Dark Lager...whatever you think that is? Certainly cold Beer is very well described by the title of this thread. ;-)

Recent Ad campaigns in the UK for Coors have us rolling on the floor with laughter....Poor old Jean Claude, stuck in the 1980's, large mullet hair and bad 1980's dress sense...no ones going to aspire to this in the 21st century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK-Kt9js56o

This is how cold US lager is being sold here. ???

,and I could have used all 3 at the time. At least I'd has more fun then!

To me, warm beer tastes like pee and we have an awful lot of beers in Belgium.And I don't know any British wines.All depends on what you call room temperature.

You think that's funny? Rolling on the floor? You ain't seen nothing yet... wait till you see some of our Presidential candidates.

[There, some politics and religion (beer) means we've ticked all the boxes, so off to the Sandbox with this thread!!]

We don’t need to see any of your Presidential Candidates to get an idea of whats going on…

Oxford English Dictionary Definition

Trump: To give forth a trumpet-like sound; spec. to break wind audibly (slang or vulgar) expelling of wind from the anus.
noun: slang or vulgar. The act of breaking wind audibly.

How can you take someone seriously whos name literally means Fart in English?

I'll climb back in the sandbox now :-)

I have the Drumpfinator extension installed in Chrome, so every reference to the candidate comes out as Drumpf. It was funny before I had any knowledge of the OED definition. It's worse now, thanks. No mystery any more why his family emigrated.

Your other choices are a criminal and a commie.

OK let's get back to beer, rubber gloves, baby oil, and whatever else that 'entails'.
No more politics or we'll all get sent to the corner.

If you think that's bad isn't it astounding that both those choices have more intelligence and integrity?


[Sandbox here we come!!]

SO ....... just noticed this thread. I guess that makes me

Nah, you're cool. It was Porsche (and VW) who designed the thing.

Intelligence, I'll give you that one. Integrity, come on, we're taking about a Clinton. Nuf said....

This is funny thread... Let's drop the politics.





BTW Darren C, I know why Brits drink beer at room temperature.....


Because all the pubs use Lucas Refrigerators!

Wait, what about the women in England being warm, can we talk about that a bit more?

Sure, in the Sandbox. I hear they have photos.

Darren, Coors light is not a lager, and is not even a representation of real beer. It's called Colorado koolaid here, and taste worse than that glass of warm piss. The real beers in the us today are craft made beers such as brown ales, porters, and imperial stouts. Most of which are 9 % or more alcohol. My personal favorite beer is a Russian imperial stout still made in England by the same brewery that supplied it to Katherine the great.

Ah, the Lucas Car Electrical jokes...

The Lucas motto: "Get home before dark."

Lucas denies having invented darkness. But they still claim "sudden, unexpected darkness"

Lucas--inventor of the first intermittent wiper.

Lucas--inventor of the self-dimming headlamp.

The three-position Lucas switch--DIM, FLICKER and OFF.

The other three switch settings--SMOKE, SMOLDER and IGNITE.

Lucas dip-switch positions: LOW and BLOW

The original anti-theft devices--Lucas Electric products.

"I've had a Lucas pacemaker for years and have never experienced any prob...

If Lucas made guns, wars would not start either.

Did you hear about the Lucas powered torpedo? It sank.

It's not true that Lucas, in 1947, tried to get Parliament to repeal Ohm's Law. They withdrew their efforts when they met too much resistance.

Did you hear the one about the guy that peeked into a Land Rover and asked the owner "How can you tell one switch from another at night, since they all look the same?" "He replied, it doesn't matter which one you use, nothing happens!"

Back in the '70s Lucas decided to diversify its product line and began manufacturing vacuum cleaners. It was the only product they offered which didn't suck.

Quality Assurance phoned and advised the Lucas engineering guy that they had trouble with his design shorting out. So he made the wires longer.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the Telephone. Thomas Edison invented the Light Bulb. Joseph Lucas invented the Short Circuit.

Recommended procedure before taking on a repair of Lucas equipment: check the position of the stars, kill a chicken and walk three times sunwise around your car chanting: "Oh mighty Prince of Darkness protect your unworthy servant."

Lucas systems actually uses AC current; it just has a random frequency.

Lucas is an acronym for Loose Unsoldered Connections and Splices.


Clay,
I have numerous British Classic Cars in my collection all with Lucas electrics...
Today I have genuinely been fault finding on my Scimitar SE5A...Bloody Lucas bullet connectors corroded and an intermittent fault on the Lucas "Gold" sports coil.
But, Hey it's a British Classic and that's why we love them :-)

Good, Darren. No, excellent, and that list is proof of the value of English beer and pub culture.

Tis true, we drink to drowned our sorrows. Then drink some more.

I know the feeling.... I spent years as an import (US Imports) specialist mechanic. I even have a full set of wentworth spanners I ordered from the UK. So I am intimately familiar with Lord Lucas (the bastard).




Seems our sorrows are damn good swimmers!

Cool. First set of wrenches I bought for myself were Whitworths, for BSA motorcycles with Lucas electrics. Talk about a losing hand... One good thing about those wrenches was that none of my friends ever wanted to borrow them.

Never could remember how to spell that.

The wrenches sit in my toolbox, gathering dust and questions.

Obviously no one ever borrowed yours, either. What other tool investment can you say that about?

Ah, yes, Joseph Whitworth…
"Whitworth, the inventor of the besom-cart and many other wonderful machines, has a face not unlike that of a baboon; speaks the broadest Lancashire; could not invent an epigram to save his life; but has nevertheless 'a talent that might drive a genii to despair'
As a true British engineer, I too have a full tool chest of Whitworth spanners, taps and dies. Several of my most treasured Pre-war cars are entirely Whitworth, so the tools all get used rather than gathering dust.
Both my Grandfathers were engineers. My paternal Grandfather worked alongside Sir Henry and developed and built the first Rolls-Royces at Nightingale Road, Derby, then during the war he made the Merlin engines for many of our famous aircraft and your P51 Mustang. On his passing I inherited his tool collection (All the original tools that helped build Rolls-Royce motor cars and the machine tools that built the Merlin) 90% of these are Whitworth and I use those same tools to work on my pre war Rolls-Royce & Bentleys; the very same tools my grandfather originally built them with!
There’s a Whitworth society here with a brief history that you guy’s may find interesting.

http://www.whitworthsociety.org/history.php?page=2

Boy has a thread ever gone so far off track?

I don't know about that, it's title is "Spawned by the Devil", isn't it? Going still further off, we're just getting to those warm and squishy English women...

I worked in England for a while. When my engineer friends got in a few digs at the Yank by waxing romantic about English automobiles, inevitably Jaguar, I'd parry by mentioning that in the U.S. we have a famous company dedicated to Jaguars. It's called "Jags That Run," and they specialize in swapping out the big heavy six's for American V8's. The engineers would recoil at that idea, just like the purist Porsche (VW) folks around here, but no one ever argued the practicality. To their credit, in fact, most were intrigued by the idea of making an old Jag viable.

Replacing an underpowered, heavy English motor with an American made V-8.

There really is precedent for that.... It's called an AC Cobra.

If the devil drove any car it would be a Lambo.

Datsun roadsters. Part Whitworth, part metric.

Start with a 1foot length of extra wire like 20-26 gauge. With electrical/masking/painting tape, tape one of the connectors to the wire. Then tape the next wire connector to the first making sure the second connector is lower on the wire than the first. Then add each wire connector until all are on the extra wire.

At this point you can fish the extra wire in and pull all the wire connectors through and remove the tape and extra wire.

Anything is viable, just depends on the depth of your pockets and the length of your arms.

I guess there's a bit of "Brit Baiting" going on here between you and Clay :-)

I'm up for that.

Had plenty of Jag's (from XK120 thru to modern XJR) and I'm a member of the JEC (Jaguar Enthusiasts Club) we mostly meet at pubs to drink warm beer and drowned our sorrows. As for warm British women, my ex-wife was known as the "ice queen" so there's no hope to be had there guy's.

Really? Even Ice Queens?


Nah, just regular old Garage B.S. It doesn't mean anything, it's just that you showed up with that accent... But if you're a hard-core Jag guy then you have my total respect and sympathy. I have an Chevy engined XJ12 here that I'm tempted to shoot with a very large revolver. Those cars are definitely character building.