Restoration thread for original 914/6, Have to start somewhere Options

[michel richard]

I put the passenger-side headlight bucket back in, but it still needs a little work. Pictures to follow. Also, I need to drill holes in the tub for a front swaybar, but that's fairly minor.

In addition, I put together a series of pictures detailing the steering column, except for the "tin pieces" and the eyebrows.

I put the pictures in a separate thread:

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=...=0&#entry527712

Cheers

Now going to have a beer and watch some football.

[brp914]

learn from my mistake. I replaced my dash face material. Then for the next few years, the #9 fuse would occasionally blow. Then, alt lite would faintly lite. pushing brake pedal would cause alt. to glow bright and gauges would go to zero. long story short, found that putting turn signal to right would blow fuse. 'Nother long story short, found that when I installed emergency flasher switch, one of the + tabs on the switch was shorting to the dash frame.

[michel richard]

Okay, brp, I will make sure I'm ok in that regard.

Jeff, I went through my boxes and I don't think I have either the facia or the eyebrow pieces.

I see in my Pet that the "eyebrow" piece is a 914 part number. Do you have a picture of it ? do you know how different it is from a 911 part ?

As to the facia, I'm tempted to see if I can fab something up to fill the hole in the sub-dash, to be covered by the eyebrow pieces.

TIA

Michel

[sixnotfour]

911's have no eyebrows

[michel richard]

That part looks rarer than hen's teeth. Been through my boxes, don't see anything like it. I do have some ideas, though . . .

I did find a couple of rear window defrost switches, and I am able to confirm that the switch itself has the same part number as the fog light switch.

The two buttons were'nt exactly the same though. I prefer the one on the right, with the thinner symbol.

Cheers

[sixnotfour]

QUOTE

That part looks rarer than hen's teeth. Been through my boxe, don't see anything like it. I do have some ideas, though

I bought a 914-6 steering colum and had to dig these out of the guys trash can, he didnt think I wanted them (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/headbang.gif)

[michel richard]

forgot to put the picture

[michel richard]

QUOTE (sixnotfour @ Oct 30 2005, 06:08 PM)

QUOTE That part looks rarer than hen's teeth. Been through my boxe, don't see anything like it. I do have some ideas, though I bought a 914-6 steering colum and had to dig these out of the guys trash can, he didnt think I wanted them (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/headbang.gif)

That prolly means you don't have spares, does'nt it ? Thanks for the picture but it's not quite in focus. Can you re-take it, perhaps with a ruler ?

[Porsche Rescue]

About 4 years ago I got a pair of those from ???Aase, formerly of Aase brothers. I think he had them on Ebay. I asked if he had any more a couple of years ago and he said "no". Keep your antennae out and you will score a pair sooner or later. But they will be a challenge.

[michel richard]

I decided to tackle a few more things on the tub. I started the discussion about them in another thread, by mistake. Here's the link. I'll continue in this thread, tomorrow.

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=...=0&#entry529632

[michel richard]

More things done on the tub tonight:

I worked a little more on preparing the driver side long: I cut out most of the threshold plate supports. This may seem radical, but I found that what's left seems be largely enough to keep the plate stiff.

[michel richard]

Oops,

[michel richard]

And put the holes in for the front swaybar:

[michel richard]

Remaining jobs are to cut holes in the font left inder fender and inner long to make room for the oil lines to pass, and to cut an inspection port in the firewall, and to POR 15 all the newly exposed metal.

That will all get done over the weekend.

Cheers

Michel

[serge914]

Dont worry, we all keep an eye on you. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/clap.gif)

[michel richard]

I did some work on the oil line routing:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=...=ST&f=2&t=40932
And put an inspection port in the firewall:
http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?act=...=ST&f=2&t=40931

As to the steering column, I'm not sure I will end up using the following, but the current reasonning is that I need to fill-in some of the area around the steering column, on the dashboard, so I made the following piece:

[michel richard]

And installed like so:

[michel richard]

and so:

[michel richard]

The little wings on the side hook up behind the steel sub-dash, the piece's face rests on the steering column support and the top "wings" on the piece will be retained by the same screws that hold the instrument facia.

The plan is to glue some dashboard face material to this, and then to fabricate a pair of the "eyebrow" pieces. We'll see how it turns out. I'm experimenting in public, here !

Michel

[michel richard]

There's always one more thing that needs to be done. One of the hinges for the driver's seat had come off; I fabricated one real quick and welded it in.