Finished edge

Next was taking Larmo’s advice and bored a new hole in the fog lite itself so
it is oriented in the proper plane with regards to the car.
Drilled out the “21w” logo

New hole. Hard to see.

And mounted. Will run wiring when the rest of bodywork is completed. It looks massive without the bumper being there. I’ll
source some proper hardware when doing the finish work. Give the brackets a proper coat as well.

One more.

Looking good. Remind me what this light is for? Is it to keep faster cars from running into the back of you? Wouldn’t it have been easier to put in something bigger than the 2.4 and leave the warning light off? Just a thought.

Looking good! Glad to see you are back at it. I was beginning to question your priorities.

It’s not his priorities, his helper has been galvanizing all over the country.

Savvy drivers in the fog look for this red Beacon aka the "Fog Dog " and have a better chance of navigating tough conditions by following

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Hahahahaha Thanks Marty.

Thanks for the detail on the fog light mount and modification.

Glad to be of some help Stephen.

Still tackling the little but absolutely necessary jobs.
With the help of the HF press I removed the rear hubs from the old trailing arms.
As previously mentioned I have a nice new set to place the rear hubs in.
Hope to do that job in the coming days.
So here’s a few pics of progress...
The press, without this I can’t imagine the task!

So first removed the hub. Destroying bearing in the process.
Then to get the race off that is left behind on the hub. I followed PMB excellent and entertaining vids to make life easier. Thanks Mr. Shea!
Applied a little MAP gas to heat the hub race and cold chisel it off.

Destroyed bearing

Heat

Movement of race...

Freedom!

Ready for new bearings.

Managed to tackle some chassis work. My bud Dave came by the other day and helped out on the difficult task. When he removed the formed chassis piece from the buck/form
found out real quick on of my welds wasn’t up to the task. Cracked immediately after
due to stresses of the flex. So I cut another straight edge pie cut in that area to be re welded.

While Dave set up my welders setting found out that maybe one of the reasons the weld didn’t hold (newbie mistakes) the gas flow wasn’t sufficient.
He took to the task of welding up the crack. I went ahead and trimmed up some more of the long to help orient the new piece.

Trimmed out

Cut

Mock up of two pieces together that will form the new “long” kick up.

Joined temporarily

Will need more trimming. Getting there.
Progress is progress. Not the most glamorous. More metal needs to be added to this piece. Goal to make sure there will be NO FLEX here. More to come....

Happy New Year Dion! Great documentation and helpful pointers.

You may have mentioned it in an earlier post so apologies if I missed it but I'm assuming you have plans to make sleeves where these pieces will be fit to the chassis?
I found Jeff Hail's post about this topic super helpful and ended up copying his approach when I did a similar repair to my car.

See post # 43 here:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...76791&st=40

Again, sorry if you already had this covered.

Keep up the great work and you'll be in 2020!

Nice job, Dion!

@Tygaboy Happy New Year Chris & thank you for all your encouragement.
Yes do plan on a “sleeve” for this area. No apologies ever needed.

Jeff does have some awesome documentation, as do you buddy!

Thanks @BeatNavy ,

Cheers

That there is a monumental piece to tackle. Well done!

Looks great dion.. I hope you will have a great 2020 with this project.

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Hi Dion ,great to see you are back on it,happy new year mate .

Guess your feeling better work looks great.

@bbrock
@mb911
@TonyA
@porschetub

Appreciate the positive vibes fellas!

A debt of gratitude is due to Dave. His experience with this area and his skillset have
kept me on track with this project. Thanks buddy.
Nice pics too.

Cheers all.

Another miserable grey, wet, winter day in Pennsylvania. So today pressed in the wheel hub bearings for the rear trailing arms.
I’ll tell ya it’s a bit nerve wracking. The fear is not getting them in straight and then
have the expense of buying another bearing.
I followed PMBs’ video for this procedure. Thanks Eric!
Started with placing the bearing in the freezer. I then tapped it in the arm gently, just seating it. Next was onto the press. Made short work of situating that bearing in place. It did the trick.
The next challenge will be the other end of the trailing arm. Everything I have read says that’s the fun part. Woo hoo!
Stay tuned.

Bearings in.

With retainer. Torqued down. Nice shiny anodizing

Pretty!

Nice job, Dion! Nothing like shiny new parts!

Yeah, the trailing arm bushings can be a bear. Hopefully you have someone who can provide a third (or fourth) hand for that.

"Pressing business..." as they say!

Nothing better than brand spankin' new stuff. Especially when it's you who did the work.
Looking really good.

And I can't wait to see that long repair. You're doing a great job all around!

Looking good.... you need a press?

Metal master Dave stopped by on this Presidents’ Day to work his magic on my 914.
This longitude kickup is quite the challenge. I’d be totally lost without his expert help.
The amount of back and forth measurements and fitting, time consuming.
This is why restorations take a long time. Happy to report progress.
Somewhat re-arranged what was originally formed on the “buck”.
When placed in situ you really see what needs trimmed and stretched.
He did all the mental measuring and massaging with the grinder.
My task was removing most of the remnants of the jack point doughnut.
Lucky he has a keen eye. Found metal that i thought was part of the floor but was still
doughnut triangle metal.
So fitted up today. Welding to be done
soon. Happy this is almost completed then the outer long can be attached.
Moving toward that suspension console .....

Pic of floor clamped with firewall flange.
All this has to tie in.

Metal master at task

Test fittings

Fitting

Final orientation. Heater tube cut out will be done as well as some additional metal will be added for additional torsional rigidity.

Sweet! Looking great. She'll be a solid ride soon.

METAL!!!!