What an incredible job! Kyle is going to have one nice restored car when it is all done. Having the knowledge, tools and shop to do it in is such a plus.

Can't wait to see more pics and the finished product.

 

Kyle making progress.

New ties rods/boots. If the tie rods won't stay "up" by themselves, probably time for a new one. The outer joints never gets a chance to wear out. The inner ball sockets go bad way before they get a chance.



New front wheel bearings.



Rear wheel bearing installed.

 

those parts look like new ,
gotta love having the right stuff,
keep em flying!

 

Beautiful work - looks better than new.

If Kyle does need any local assistance once back at school, it's just a bit more than walking distance but I'd be glad to help out. Also, I'd sure like to see him and the car at Sharks in the Park next May and any of our monthly funrides and other events.

This car is going to be far too nice compared to what the local residents and students usually drive, as BC described. You may want to put a few dents in it, tear out the radio (leave wires hanging) and reupholster seats with old beach towels before you send Kyle away with it.

 

Thanks for the offer, Bill. He will, no doubt, have some questions. It would be great if he could hook up with some of the locals and go on some funrides...perhaps you could help him get hooked up. You have to know that I'm "playing" with the engine to get a few more ponies out of it...not sure I know how to not do this....

We will need to exchange contact information, before he takes off.

We actually considered welding on an old rusty VW bus on top of the 928 body, to make it fit in, better....but we can't find a rusty bus, down here. I think they are all up there.

The seats are about ready for towels.

 

I can offer assistance also. I work on campus. Got there a few years after Bill, but I haven't
left yet... What would work better then a VW bus would probably be an old Volvo PV544.
Bill and I both had one (strange coincidence).

By the way, this build looks great so far. Can't wait to see the finished product.

 

Yes, a Volvo PV544 would be perfect. That was my car while I was at Bezerkley. I abandoned it on the street when it finally went totally dead in 68. I think it's still there.

 

Gotta love the PV544. Did yours have the little chain on the dash that operated the window shade that covered the radiator? Great feature for the coldest of days. My dad taught me during a low, low budget refresh of one.


Thanks again for the resto thread on this 928. May others refresh them, too!

 

Very nice, George.

Kyle will be learning to drive a stick, on his way up there. Hardly wait until he gets to the 'hills" of Bezerkley. You guys might need to rescue him where he gets off of the 580 onto the 13!

The clutch is pretty good, so I'm not going to replace the clutch or take the transmission apart...until he masters the stick

 

Just teach him the "all hands shuffle" where you are stopped on a hill (up) = grab the parking brake, keep it on by pulling on it but have the button in, put the clutch in, 1st gear in, left the clutch out as you slightly release the parking brake for forward movement. Works great once you get the hang of it.

 

You are just correcting some things that the factory forgot to do.

 

He actually has this really nasty 914-6, with a pretty radical 3.5 liter, complete with 916 gearbox, huge brakes, etc. Has an RSR clutch assembly that is pretty damn grabby. The car has huge brakes, which means that it doesn't have an emergency brake....the emergency brake was part of the original caliper.

We went out trying to learn how to drive this, last year.....did not turn out to be emotionally rewarding, when we came to the first little hill.

I will teach him the emergency brake trick.

 

If he breaks down on highway 13, I have a place to park the car off Park
Blvd... I keep one of my 928s there. The car has a better view then
I do.

My old 81 in the driveway:

 

By the time I got it, my '58 PV544 burned more oil than gas. Kinda cool - like a continuous oil change. I'd wait until the oil pressure started to drop, then throw in a couple of quarts. It dieseled when you turned it off. The brakes failed on a day I had to be in San Francisco, so I drove over there and all around the city with just the parking brake. Good thing the cable didn't snap going down Fell Street. The Volvo ad at that time was "The average Volvo lasts 11 years". Almost to the day, when the car reached its 11th birthday, the brakes failed again, the lights stopped working and the side windows fell into the doors. Parked it for good.

All-in-all not a bad first car for $150.

Sorry to hijack, but it's just hard to believe I survived those years and enjoyed it so much.

Greg, I had the best time of my life at Berkeley, and that was without partaking in any of the available pharmacology, oh, except the traditional liquid type on weekends. It was a GREAT university and still is. I hope your son has half as much fun as I did and learns twice as much.

 

Kyle making more progress.

New ball joint boots. 928 International has them.



Start with a bit of redone hardware:



And a bit of engine hardware.



Front shocks. Found some used Bilsteins. Install plastic guide washer and shock snubber.



Usually the dust covers are broken or cracked. Best to start with a new one. Used ones always seem to be cracked.



Assemble spring using a high quality spring compressor. There is a huge amount of stored energy here. Be very careful.



Assemble front suspension is pretty simple. Install pieces in the proper places and torque hardware. Nothing to it.



Virtually every brake line was frozen where the nuts contacted the lines and where the nuts threaded into their respective places. This requires making new lines. The master cylinder is going to be replaced, soon. You can make out the two new lines, just behind the old power steering lines.



The other end of one of the new brake lines. We're replacing the stock rubber hose to the caliper with a Goodridge set of brake hoses.



Speaking of power steering hoses. Look closely at the cracks in the old return hose.