Just went through this entire thread over the last couple of days... Amazing! You have done a great job with this car, and at a pace that seems hard to believe.
We are almost at the same stages in our builds, but I’m sure you will pass me up at the speed you work at.
I was fortunate to start with a dry straight car, so I didn’t have to do nearly as much work as you have. Even if I wanted to, I don’t have near the skill set you do.

Keep up the great work and thank you for taking the time to post it.

Cheers,
John

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Thanks, John. Your car, in that sneak peek, looks amazing. My only secret is working on it almost every day, for an hour or eight. Since I am retired (or supposed to be), I can do that.

Thanks, Doug--I will do that ASAP. Gotta save my cuss words for other things.

More cleaning paint and undercoating from headlight buckets and ventilation pieces, still a tedious and unhappy job. That includes stripping undercoating from everything, like small hardware and hose clamps. Have I mentioned lately how much I hate undercoating?

So I treat myself to other jobs, like installing and plumbing the brake reservoir. Here are the feed lines as I left them a few weeks ago. These are rather stiff. And not the right shape to clear the gas tank.

Out comes the trusty heat gun, set on medium.

I tried to focus the heat on the outside of the bends, so the plastic could stretch rather than buckle on the inside of the bend. The result is not quite stock but should work.

Here's the replacement reservoir with the nasty original. Know what I hate?

Reservoir mounted to measure for cutting the feed lines. I will get to this tomorrow.

While checking the feed lines into the MC, I noticed a problem with the front output hard line. The way I installed this it rubs against the steering rack bellows (that I mounted after running the brake lines).

Easy to turn the banjo fitting and tweak the hard line to get some clearance. Note the feed line fitting looks close to the bellows but there is clearance.

What do they say, the devil is in the details. Too bad major restorations have a million of these details, everyone needs to be perfect or close. Thanks for posting, great work

Thanks. At least a million details. And I can invent more without trying hard.

Just a quick trip to the garage today. I finished connecting the brake reservoir lines.

And I started cleaning the crud from the headlight motors.

Awesome work as usual. Where did you get those short hoses? The only ones I can find that are brake fluid rated are blue. Would love gray...

Funny - I had to look everywhere for blue...

@bkrantz : Always enjoy following your thread...the quality of your work is terrific!

@iankarr , @Kansas 914: If you google part number N203501-5 you should find plenty of options for blue, grey and black cloth brake line.

For what it's worth, my reservoir didn't look too much different than the "coated" one in the photo. I soaked mine for about 4 days in sulphamic acid (Lowe's stock # 643484) and it came out perfect...some paint overspray did not soak off but could be removed by fingernail after it's bath.

Thank you!

I checked the continuity today--all good. Thanks, again, Doug.

Part of the brake supply line kit from PMB.

While I have easy access to the fuse panel, I rewired the fog light switch, so the fogs can come on without headlights.

Following multiple instructions from other 914 Worlders, I disconnected the white/blue wire for the fog relay from the fuse feed #1, and grounded it, disconnected the black/blue wire from the fog switch (and isolated it), and ran a new lead (here, green/white) from the switch to fuse feed #9.

After fun stuff, I went back to cleaning parts. Here are the defroster ducts, mostly free of undercoating an overspray.

One mixer box cleaned, one to go.

Got all the fresh air system components cleaned, and ready to install (I hope). As soon as I have the dash face mounted, I can continue with all the ventilate stuff.

Meanwhile, a few trivial bit, like the plugs for the front nose panel.

Now for some shiny new Hella horns, to replace the originals (with one not working). And the new horns don't have undercoating.

Fit is exactly like the originals. And should be louder.

Then I went down a rabbit hole with the headlight motors. Both ran when tested, but both have broken wires.

I repaired one lead, but there is a small contact widget that allows the armature to spin in one direction only. Is this normal?

The other motor has been opened before, and is missing some hardware that holds the top casting to the case. And this one spins freely in both directions, so I can't unscrew the manual knob.

I think I need to source some replacements.

No, no, no, noooooooo......

After all the trouble you've gone to on this build, you're not going to clean up and rebuild/repair your horns?
Oh the horror.

Not that hard and the undercoating will clean up like a champ.
The non-working horn is likely the "points" inside that are easily cleaned with an emory cloth or some very fine sandpaper (I did this) and some satin black paint.
You'll end up with this.

And they are LOUD horns when working correctly. Ask me. Ha
Mine below.
Just saying and throwing out the gantlet.

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See post #663 on my build.
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...9327&st=640

Sorry to be SUCH a disappointment.

I guess I just wimped out. But the new horns are sexy red.

Wait til you see what I have in mind for the fog lights.

Some other diversions.

I pulled out the aluminum trim again. I did order new pieces for the targa sails, but want to see if I can rescue the window trim strips. I cleaned off the PO black paint.

With all the half-a** work they did, why did they have to be dedicated enough to sand the trim before painting it black?

My plan is to sand out the grooves as much as possible, polish, and seal. And this is just for the outer edges.

And I finally started with the dash. I will replace the vinyl on the top (stock black) and the face (gray perf, to match my new doors and seats).

Just a little bit of metal working done, mostly around the radio opening.

Sorry for the delay, but 914 World will not let me post photos--I keep getting error messages.

If anyone has ideas about how to fix this, please let me know (or nudge whoever can help).

I have made progress, but reporting is still on hold. I need some guidance from the site admins on how to fix my photo posting issue.

Since others are posting it is most likely on your end. Could be your firewalls or something in your history.
I am not tech literate so hopefully someone out there can help.

My computer (big iMac) does automatic updates a lot. After one of those, I lost the ability to pull up a file listing for pics I wanted to post by hitting the "choose file" button. Now I have to drag the pic onto this button and release. It's a pain, but I've not been able to figure out the problem with my limited computer skilz. Ha Something to do with "pop ups" I'm told. I don't get the "pop up" to choose my pic from anymore. It's all crickets. And I've been unable to find a new software app that's shutting down my "pop ups." So I just live my current go around. I feel your pain in not being able to post pics for your project.

Enabling or disabling the popup blocker in Safari

Allow pop-ups from a site
On your computer, open Chrome.
Go to a page where pop-ups are blocked.
In the address bar, click Pop-up blocked Pop-up blocked.
Click the link for the pop-up you want to see.
To always see pop-ups for the site, select Always allow pop-ups and redirects from [site] and then Done.

Your error message is because your pictures are too big.. Are you taking pictures with your phone? If so just edit them buy shrinking the picture just a bit and save. Delete the original as to not get confused then upload.. when I was busting your chops a while back it was because you were posting 1 picture per post. Thats because you had to because of the size of the picture.

Thanks, everyone. AFAIK I made no changes in my laptop (MacBook Pro) or any of my home network.

Ben, I also did not change anything in my process. Yes, I have been using my phone (iPhone 7). Photo file size has always been under the size limit per post.

Anyway, I tried again today--and it works! Thanks to anyone who helped fix things.

Now to back up and report on the past week.

I finished stripping the old padding and glue from the dash board.

And a bit of final dolly work around the radio opening.

I got a batch of small parts from Fosterjoejr.

The cable retaining clips went on the relay board.

The double-shrouded connector went on the heat blower fan.