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

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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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I used the methods recommended by you folks. I back stepped the welding and skipped an inch each time.

The 75/25% mix is nice, and once I overcame my stupid of hey I have not welded since I spent all that time learning last November/December and turned the wire speed up to get the bacon sound as wall as moved the ball things became nice.

My early welds on the passenger strut tower are ugly, but they penetrated and are solid/clean. I ground them down, and will be grinding them all down and seam sealing back over it once there is 2k primer on there.


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I am going to cut the back open where the strut tower meets the long and get in there. I spent a lot of timing cleaning the back of the weld areas as much as possible to bare metal that was shiny to avoid contamination. It looks like the hours of prep work paid off even when I sucked bad at first.