Let's save another 914, and get it decent., Probably need advice from you old school 914 folk Options

[ghuff]

So here is the rust on this one. It's a 75 cali car it's entire life.

Get the worst over to begin. Let us take a look at the hell hole. It was solid, and even passed teh screwdriver/hammer test....

*until* it soaked in metal ready a while... then the screwdriver test started picking out giant holes which you see here. It is still soaking, and has been on/off for days not to eat away more to see what metal is truly left. Next step is a grinder or non-hand tool of sorts to break deep into the pitting and see what truly is through.

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[McMark]

The pipe will be fine 99% of the time.

You won't be able to seal up the inside of the weld. There is always some exposed metal left. That's just life. Replacing the entire long will still leave you with bare metal where the welds are. You just can't get to everything.

But the good news is that as long as you maintain the car correctly you repair will not rust out for a LONG LONG TIME. Long enough to not worry about it.

[ghuff]

The pipe will be fine 99% of the time.

You won't be able to seal up the inside of the weld. There is always some exposed metal left. That's just life. Replacing the entire long will still leave you with bare metal where the welds are. You just can't get to everything.

But the good news is that as long as you maintain the car correctly you repair will not rust out for a LONG LONG TIME. Long enough to not worry about it.

Made some progress just have been to busy to update with pictures. I am going to rectify that now. I have hit all the rust with metal ready, then some rattle can self etching for a temporary seal against the weather while I work. The drivers side is complete with por patch and por 15. There was a literal 2 pinholes worth of true rust after many many many many hours with 60 grit, a dremel, and a 1/2" drill with various wire wheels.

To give you an idea of the time spent, I have purple/black bruises in my arm pits from working the hell holes at ground level for so long with 60 grit and a dremel + wire wheel/drill to pull thepitting out and see what metal is really good.

My wife freaked out and I did not put two and two together until I thought about what I had been doing for the past week.

On to the photos!

I ended up getting more of the rust out before it received patch and por 15. The holes were so tiny and completely void of rust after I got to them, that I decided cutting/welding here was not necessary at all and that patch would be fine since they were well under 1cm or so and not structural.

Worse case scenario, in 5-10 years I cut and weld it. Oh well.



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