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| jporsche914 |
 Mar 30 2004, 08:43 PM
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Member  Group: Members Posts: 149 Joined: 9-March 04 From: colorado, springs Member No.: 1,769  |
I bought my beautiful 1.7L 914 about 7 months ago. It is my first car. When i purchased the car it had 3,454 miles on an almost 4000 dollar engine rebuild. Thinking three thounsand dollar for this car was a heck of a deal i jumped at the oppurtunity. About three months later i started to hear a knock coming from the engine. I was told it is most likely an bearing problem . But anyway my question to you guys is how hard is it to drop the motor crack it open replace the bearings and put it back together and have it run. I dont have any experiance with engine rebuilding and i do not have much experiance working an cars but i do know and understand the 914 engines. I have seen many pictures of a dissasembled block and the process lookes fairly easy to do. As much info as you have would be great Thanks!!
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| Rusty |
Mar 31 2004, 03:06 AM
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Wanted: Engine case GA003709 Group: Admin Posts: 7,943 Joined: 24-December 02 From: North Alabama Member No.: 6 Region Association: Galt's Gulch 
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Welcome to the BBS!
Dropping an engine isn't too hard. If you own a 914 and do some of your own work, it's something you should learn. Before you decide to crack open the engine (it's something you CAN do yourself), I would recommend reading everything you can, including the Haynes and the other book about "Care and Feeding of your Air Cooled VW" (or some such title). Both are probably available at your local auto parts store, or Borders. Hope this helps, -Rusty (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smoke.gif) |
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