73 2.0L Progress Thread, Engine Teardown Options

[dlee6204]

Its that time of year again so I'd thought I'd start a progress thread to help keep me motivated. I bought this car last summer as a nicer project car for me to work on and eventually be able to drive. My goal for this summer is to repair all the rust on the car and to get it running. I'll end up painting it down the road either the original Marathon Blue Metallic or Ravenna Green. I've been collecting parts all winter so hopefully I should be good to go. I've done a little work on it already but I'll bring everyone up to date. Feel free to comment, ask questions, make suggestions, tell me what I'm doing wrong or anything else for that matter. Enjoy!

Here is the car when I first picked it up. The car came fully optioned and even came with SS heat exchangers and a running two liter engine. The car was wrecked at some point and had a crappy repair done to it but I am still trying to figure out what happened. Both the driver's front corner and the driver's rear corner had damage but the door and rear quarter seem fine. I will find out more once I start stripping some paint and bondo. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)




The interior was about a 4 on a 10 scale however the dash is crack free! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/piratenanner.gif)


The rear floor pan is shot and I knew that before I bought the car. The previous owner patched the floor at some point and installed three new seat brackets over the bad metal. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) I ordered a new floor pan and a fourth seat bracket from AA today.

[dlee6204]

So I put the 914 on jack stands this weekend to get some stuff done on it. I started by removing the gas tank and going through the air ducting up front. The air valves weren't in sync with the dash controls so i adjusted them. In the process, I broke one of the cables and that was a real pain to replace. I also replaced the fan and it still doesn't work so I need to make sure all the contacts are clean and attached in the dash.

I moved onto the rear end. Recently I've been having a progressive noise coming from the driver's side rear so I wanted to figure out why. I also wanted to fix the negative camber issue and replace the driveshafts while I was in there. After taking off the caliper and rotor, I notice the hub was way too loose in the bearing. I was able to wiggle it back and forth and then it popped out! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) (I previously replaced this bearing.)




I figured that was the source of the noise so I moved onto the camber issue. I replaced the trailing arm with a spare and it still had too much negative camber so I knew it wasn't a bent trailing arm. I ended up putting in approximately 1 cm of spacers to solve the camber issue. I also put in a new wheel bearing (a different brand than the first) in the second trailing arm so now I should be good to go. The driveshafts were replaced in the process.