Back Pad Needed! And The Story of a '74 1.8...
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Brad,
Glad you got out of AA and I wish you luck at your new place. I am sure you could tell some stories on your way out of there. Stay in touch!
Glad you got out of AA and I wish you luck at your new place. I am sure you could tell some stories on your way out of there. Stay in touch!
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People looked at me strangely in Atlanta anyway, because I rode a motorcycle year round. It's a bit more difficult to do that in Ohio, but I may well try anyway!
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If you want stories, I've got stories! LOL. I'm only about half an hour from Mid-O, so if you are ever down there, I will swing down to the track and buy you a brew or two!
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I was offered something better and took it. I don't hold ill will toward my former employer (as a company).
That being said, I am glad to have gone, and I am much happier in my new position.
I will poke around and see what I can come up with in the "backpad" arena. I may know someone who knows someone.
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While waiting for that backpad, I took care of another problem. Found some rust perforations under the right rocker panel. Wire-brushed the heck out of everything, vacuumed away the mess, sprayed everything with Rustoleum "Rusty Metal Primer," made patterns with paper, found some galvanized tin roof flashing, got out my tin snips and cut pieces to fit.
Hand-formed the pieces, mixed enough Bondo to coat each piece (4 total) with a 1/8th" thick layer, and pushed them tightly into place. The Bondo grabbed on like no construction glue can, and after a couple hours I sprayed them with Permatex Rubberized Undercoating. Voila!
The front perfs weren't nearly as bad as the back ones, but I fixed them "while I was in there." Pics to follow...
Hand-formed the pieces, mixed enough Bondo to coat each piece (4 total) with a 1/8th" thick layer, and pushed them tightly into place. The Bondo grabbed on like no construction glue can, and after a couple hours I sprayed them with Permatex Rubberized Undercoating. Voila!
The front perfs weren't nearly as bad as the back ones, but I fixed them "while I was in there." Pics to follow...
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Next project; get the car to a professional detailer and see if he can do better than I did with the existing paint. This will happen in the next couple of weeks, I met a detailer at the CA Challenge Zone 8 PCA event that I attended a couple of weeks ago. We'll see how that works out!
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Well, I've been driving the black beast as often as time permits, and just when I thought it was safe to venture far from home (to the pro detailer), the car wouldn't start. No crank. I was aware that it felt, all along, like turning the ignition key was a chore, but I ignored that. Until this morning, when the car wouldn't crank.
I sat there thinking, and remembered that back in the day my shop had to replace a few 914/4 ignition switches because the plastic electrical section cracked. I figured that it was cheaper/easier than replacing the starter, so I set about removing the steering wheel, the under dash knee pad, the column switches...and disassembled the ignition switch. The plastic section was cracked as bad, perhaps worse, than any switch that I've ever seen.
The good news is that my favorite wholesaler has the part in stock, at a ridiculously cheap price, and the switch will ship out today. And I won't have to figure out how to squeeze the plastic back together and somehow secure it so it might hold the inner contacts in position. Whew!
I sat there thinking, and remembered that back in the day my shop had to replace a few 914/4 ignition switches because the plastic electrical section cracked. I figured that it was cheaper/easier than replacing the starter, so I set about removing the steering wheel, the under dash knee pad, the column switches...and disassembled the ignition switch. The plastic section was cracked as bad, perhaps worse, than any switch that I've ever seen.
The good news is that my favorite wholesaler has the part in stock, at a ridiculously cheap price, and the switch will ship out today. And I won't have to figure out how to squeeze the plastic back together and somehow secure it so it might hold the inner contacts in position. Whew!
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There is something wrong in the new ignition switches. I can't remember what it was buy Chris Foley posted about it on 914world. His name over there is racerchris.
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