QUOTE(vin man @ Jan 3 2017, 09:54 AM)
QUOTE(Rleog @ Jan 3 2017, 05:31 AM)
A recent thread dealt with Momo adapters for early (70-71) and later model 914s. The Momo adapter for 70-71 914s (Momo 8000) has become very difficult to find.
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=301488Thanks. Is the 72 different than the 70-71? Different spline count?
I had thought they were the same.
Yeah, that was my thread, and I've confused myself all to hell with this Momo hub adapter stuff.
Here's what I know (or think I know):
1. I have a MY '72 (third digit of VIN is 2). The build date, based on chassis number, is week 45, which would put the build date sometime in early November of '71 (correct?).
2. I ended up purchasing an adapter, p/n 8002, which corresponds to the later style when I thought that would work. When it arrived, it actually didn't look exactly like any of the other ones I've seen online, although it had a "8002" stamped in it. It did not have the "accordion" or bellows on it that I thought was characteristic of later style, and initially I thought I'd gotten lucky and been shipped an 8000 (early style). But on closer examination it did not look exactly like pictures of the early style I've seen online.
3. Tried to put it on my car just to see if it would work. It really wouldn't go onto the splines far at all, and I didn't want to force it. Just for the heck of it I tried to put it on a '75 steering column I have lying around, and it went on fine. I've read that spline count for early/late 914/4's is the same. I was under the impression that the later adaptor WILL fit on the early splines, but you just can't get it to go on far enough so the turn signal cancel will work.
I am curious if the later adaptor SHOULD at least slide onto my '72 steering column or if there's something else going on. From that thread one of the guys said his car with a Dec '71 build date worked fine with the later adapter, so I was hoping it would work on mine.