Spoke's Green 914 Progress Thread, 1974 914 2.0 Options

[Spoke]

Nuther on the driver side.

[Spoke]

Passenger side suspension installed.

[Spoke]

Nuther passenger side.

[Spoke]

Finally sitting on 5-lug wheels.

[Spoke]

I think I want to lower the car. Have stock springs on the rear. Think I want to go with 180LB springs. Anybody have a set they want to part with?

[Spoke]

Close up of the driver rear. The fenders where quite a task to form but the most work went into un-pancaking the rear quarterpanel. Still have more work to do around the taillight.

[Spoke]

Left front shot.

[Spoke]

Right front.

[Spoke]

Fat ass ends are nice!

[Spoke]

Right rear.

[Spoke]

Left rear.

[Spoke]

OK, a little OT.

My buddy's Saturn Sky.

[Spoke]

OK, more OT.

Last Sat. night we had some friends over for cocktails. About 10pm, my buddy gets a call from his daughter at home across the street. "Dad, someone is spotting deer behind our house".

My buddy jumps in his vehicle to investigate but no car seen on the lower road.

Then about 10:45pm, my buddy gets another call from his daughter. "Dad, they're spotting deer again and I heard a gunshot."

My buddy jumps in his car again with a neighbor while I ran down to his house. I could see an older SUV sitting on the road with his lights on. My bud pulls up behind the vehicle and runs up to it and yells at the guys.

They pull out like a bat out of hell and drive off, my buddy in tow. After about a 5 mile chase, my buddy breaks off as 911 is called and the licence number reported.

My bud goes back to the field behind his house and finds a nice 8-point buck laying in the field. Police said he could cut up the deer; they want the head for evidence. There goes a nice little trophy.

Latest info on the shooter: police found the driver and gun. He hasn't given names of the other 2 people. Police confiscated his gun and vehicle. This guy is in a hurt of trouble. Let's see:

Shooting deer from a vehicle: Illegal
Shooting deer at night: Illegal
Shooting deer with a spotlight: Illegal
Shooting deer within 100 yards of houses: Illegal
Shooting deer out of season: Illegal

[Eric_Shea]

That sucks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Car is looking awesome... gonna take me a few minutes to get over the deer thing though. Happy as hell they caught him.

[Spoke]

OT: Update on the Deer Shooter.

As happy as we were to catch the guy (actually just got his license number), we didn't catch him with the goods. The deer that is.

My buddy did pick the guy out of a line up of pictures so we placed the guy at the scene.

However, no deer in hand; no eye witnesses that he actually shot the deer; no one heard the guys saying something like "Lets go get the deer"; the guy denies shooting the deer.

My bud did get the slug out of the deer and gave it to the police. Ballistic tests I'm sure cost time and money. Question now is how much work do the police want to go through to nail this guy?

Until they prove that he shot the deer, they can't charge him with the counts listed above.

The police did confirm that his gun was fired very recently, so they did charge him with discharging a gun at night and discharging a gun from a vehicle.

So far, he doesn't have any deer related charges. This episode was sorta like catching a couple of guys in front of a bank with guns and masks on before they rob it. They didn't rob the bank yet so can't be charged with that.

If we would have slowed down a bit and realized that the guy was still sitting in his car and just drove by to get the license number, perhaps they would have gone and retrieved the deer. But then, hindsite is 20/20 and we were happy just to get the guy at the scene.

Spoke

[Spoke]

OK, back to the green car. I've driven it for a couple of weeks. There is still more work to do on the rear of the car. The passenger side rear wheel bearing needs replaced. Also, the passenger rear hub has at least one stud that is not straight. This causes the wheel to wobble very slightly and the rear rotor to go out of round when the lugs are tightened.

So I'll get some new rear wheel bearings and some nice Eric Shea 5-lug hubs. The bearing and wheel wobble are not extreme so the car can be driven for a while until I get the bearings and hubs.


Time has come to investigate a fuel odor coming from under the gas tank. This has plagued the car since I bought it. I found that the lower the fuel level in the tank, the less it smells. Never observed an actual gas leak or moist areas.

The green car is now back in the corner spot in the garage for this gas leak work. I'll be driving the red car again as my DD when it doesn't rain or snow.

[Spoke]

To empty the tank, I jacked up the driver side and siphoned as much gas out as I could. Then I jacked up the passenger side to get the leftoever gas away from the gas lines. Tank came out with no spilled gas.

Tank looks ok on the outside, no signs of leaking. I haven't looked inside the tank yet although I can hear something inside as I tilt the tank from one side to the other.

[Spoke]

The gas fumes seem to be coming from the driver side of the gas tank. With the tank out, I could see that the fuel pump has been relocated along with the fuel filter. I'll change the filter while I'm here.

[Spoke]

Pic of the fuel pump from the drivers side. Still not obvious what is leaking.

[Spoke]

With the fuel pump removed, I can see a moist area in the corner of the wall. Now to figure out what is leaking.

Anyone have experience with these kinds of leaks? Hopefully it is not the fuel pump. Hoses and filter will be easy to change. I don't want to change the fuel pump unless necessary.