Just another Factory 6 being fixed up Options

[Luke M]

Well it's gotten to be that time finally. I've been collecting parts to do the repair on my 914-6 and now the work starts. The main issue is the hell hole/inner engine long, inner pass long, pass inner rocker panels are rusted out. The last part I was trying to source seams to be NLA. I sourced most of the parts from the good guys at Restoration Design. I received my order today for the last batch of things. Based on a few threads that I've looked over the outer shell to the inner engine long is currently not being made by RD. A few guys have made their own which looks like a real pain in the rear to do. I laid out all the new metal to see how things lined up. By the looks of things it will need some fine tuning to mate things properly. Before I start cutting into the chassis I'll build a few braces to keep things true.

Time for the pics...

[mepstein]

I removed studs from about 25 engine cases when I worked at the shop. If you have 2 people, one heats up the case right at the register where the stud descends into the case. The other is removing pre heated studs from the case. I always hit it with map gas for 2-3 minutes before twisting the stud. My feeling is it not only helped to keep the stud from breaking but it was easier on the aluminum and especially magnesium threads in the case. If the stud wasn't easy to turn after a couple minutes of heat, it got another minute or 2 and would always come out easily.

Divlar studs are strange. I watched someone reuse them because they looked perfect and the next morning we came in to a couple broken studs on the floor. While we were standing there, we heard a ping, watched a broken stud with the nut on top, jump out of the head and fall to the ground. The engine got all new studs...