Cary's 73 1.7 Rustoration Thread Options

[76-914]

Like a kid in the Candy Shop, huh?

[mepstein]

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?s=&...t&p=2502260

Side note : The 2 new cans of U-Pol weld thru primer are the copper based instead of zinc. Error : Either them or me ? Man it's a alot nicer to weld onto. I just laid that washer on the primer and blipped away. No spitter spatter like the zinc.

That's the only stuff our metal guy will use if he uses weld through.

[cary]

Last day of vacation before driving home. Julie and I drove up to Petaluma to see tygaboy and his project/shop. My wife Julie and his wife Lori (sp ?) hit it off and disappeared into the house.
I'm not an LS guy, but the conversion is stunning. Workman/craftsmanship is at the next level. If you've followed his thread, it's a creative work in progress. Heavy on the creative .............
Was only going to stop for a few minutes, ended up being around 3 hours. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
From the Tool Whore himself, does he have some tools ............ Lots of them on my wish list. But too many cars in the shop to actually set them up and use.

[mb911]

Chris is a really good guy.. I would love to visit him some day.

[cary]

Doing a little work on Matt's melted harness. I harvested the wires out of my spare harness bits. Extracted some complete units, column switches, ignition, etc.
We'll have them extracted color by color for future repairs.





Like Matt's harness, the solid gray wire had a melt down. Best I can tell it's the luggage lamp feed that ties to the license plate bulbs. It's fused to #7. Hmm.

[cary]

Stopped at the plumbing supply store and picked up the hole cutting saw for the floor plugs.

[worn]

I just noticed the cardboard box - for a case of 12 Dungeness Crabs. Oh, for a fresh northwest crab! Here we get "snow crab". Frozen and stringy. Years ago we returned to the PNW, chartered a sailboat and caught all of the crab we could eat. Lucky devils!

[cary]

With the population increase from when I was a kid. Its get pretty tough getting too and from the coast on the weekend.

[cary]

Another episode of Tool Whore. Added a HF headlamp to my face shield. Works pretty good.


Saturday at MiddleMotors.
BIG DAY ON TAYLOR'S PROJECT
He finished the harvesting of the front fire wall. With the amount of welding that will need to be done I'll probably refurbish quite a bit of the flange. That will keep the edge from blowing out.


Taylor and his trophy.

Matt continues with his harness rebuilding/repairing.

[cary]

Tuesday 8/8/17.
Spent half the day welding on Doug's car. Then started to assemble (dis-assemble) the suspension and brakes on Matt's car.





New 914 Rubber sway bar bushings


Dis-assemble : we removed the URO front control arm bushing from the refurbished control arms. No torch. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Shop press and bearing separators. And some McGyvering on/in the press to make space for parts travel. Press will need to be upgraded to a 20 ton to make the project faster.
Trailing arms will get the new 914 Rubber control arm bushings.

Since harvesting Chris's firewall patch Super In Law has continued to saw up the yellow parts car. Because it was a V8 attempt car not a lot of parts. saving odd things.

center section of rear taillight panel
remainder of firewall for 6 cylinder cover
front portion of engine tray
cable/tube section of rear lower firewall
entire right long, stem to stern
mount section of upper right long
late engine fan mount
both hinge posts, including long portion

[tygaboy]

Patrick Motorsports, Flatbrick Bloatershorts!

Super In-Law helped with my build! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)

(and I still say we need t-shirts with his pic on them...)

[Matty900]

Super-in-law has been busy.

[cary]

Did another visual on Taylor's project before heading to the Eagle Cap Wilderness for a 6 day backpacking trip.

Matt and I discovered that Taylor's clutch tube is totally disconnected in all three locations. That's first. Nice that's it's on a rotisserie for the floor pan entry.

Plus one of the right seat hinges needs to be relocated. Seat frame wouldn't go into place. If would waller out the holes it would be crooked.

[worn]

Super In-Law helped with my build! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/aktion035.gif)

(and I still say we need t-shirts with his pic on them...)

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If we have to pre-order I am signing up now. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)

You lucky devil. I also have a super-in-law, my mother in law. They oughta meet cause she pulled 2x10 stock out from the planer for Weyerhaeuser until the mill closed when she was 65.

[bbrock]

Did another visual on Taylor's project before heading to the Eagle Cap Wilderness for a 6 day backpacking trip.

You shame me! My car has kept me from sleeping in a tent since April, and I haven't gotten my canoe wet once this summer. May have to take some time off from the car before the summer is gone.

[cary]

I'm back ................
Man I forget how much I love being above the timberline. First day was pretty tough. 3500 ft of vertical in 4 miles at 61 years old.

My RV. Gregory Palisades.

Above the timberline I carry 2 sleeping pads. Egg crate and foam.





Today is shop clean up day. The 2 parts cars going to the squisher. Used oil being given to independent shop that has an oil burning shop heater.

[cary]

With coming back a day early I spent yesterday taking the remains of two of the parts cars to their final resting place. Far West Metal Recycling.
I was surprised that I was paid $95 per ton. I thought it was down to $30 per ton.

[cary]

After harvesting all the hardware off the parts cars I figured it was time for a plating run.
Working with Matt and Doug has spoiled me.







Super In Law is wearing out the nozzles on the bead blaster. LOL.
We'll remove all the spring we can get at off the latches.
Next issue is where will I put all the shiny stuff when it gets back. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

[cary]

While I'm welding on Doug's car Super In Law is also breaking all the harvested parts and getting them ready to be put up into storage.




Kind of odd. Most of these parts cars have new disks on them. So they get put into storage to be blasted and turned down in the future.



As we were leaving last night I found 4 more totes of parts off the POS parts car that will need to sorted and prepared for storage, or tossed out. He'll be busy today. LOL.
Plus we'll be cutting down some pallets to 3 ft deep to put the totes on. Too big of a PIA up on the rolling stairs.

[cary]

Randy Wells video from last years Mexican 1000.

https://www.pca.org/news/mexican-1000