whats the secret then?

porker914 · Post by **porker914** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 10:48 pm

Anyone have any tips on re-fitted the bloody spring mechanism that keeps the rear boot up???

I have just nearly cut my finger off trying to get the brackets back in place holding the torsion spring in place following one of the welded brackets snapping off.

Anyone converted to gas strut?

David

defianty · Post by **defianty** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 11:04 pm

Ouch! I saw this and remembered a thread on 914.com. It doesn't help much but does mention a specific tool used for the job.

http://www.914club.com/bbs2/index.php?s ... =60055&hl=

hughicol · Post by **hughicol** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:15 am

Hi, I have just purchased the gas strut conversion from camp914. Craig the owner of camp is the most helpful guy I have ever had to deal with. Although I was lucky as my son was in the States and therefore I had no postage costs for the strut kit. However, I have purchased items direct from camp since and he only charges UPS mail costs, they arrived in UK 3 days later.

If you want to know how to reconnect the originals I suggest you go to Pelican Parts's website and look at the technical pages there, it tells all, even a design to make the specialist tool which one evidently needs to do the job. I took one look and decided on the gas struts which come with a very good diagram and instructions. Very easy to install.

Dave

porker914 · Post by **porker914** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:23 pm

Dave
Cheers for that I had actually looked on camp914 website and seen these and its the shipping that puts me off. Do you know what the original strut came from? I can make the brackets up just wondered as the strut must be a bog standard strut from something.

David

hughicol · Post by **hughicol** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 5:22 pm

porker914 wrote:Dave
Cheers for that I had actually looked on camp914 website and seen these and its the shipping that puts me off. Do you know what the original strut came from? I can make the brackets up just wondered as the strut must be a bog standard strut from something.

David

Your welcome to look at mine. I will look at them when I get a chance and let you know if there are any markings s well as giving you the dimensions etc.

porker914 · Post by **porker914** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:44 pm

Dave,
I may take you up on that offer especially as I just noticed you are also in hampshire!

Where abouts are u?

David

hughicol · Post by **hughicol** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:27 pm

porker914 wrote:Dave,
I may take you up on that offer especially as I just noticed you are also in hampshire!

Where abouts are u?

David

Hayling Island

fourteener · Post by **fourteener** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 9:41 pm

Only drawback to the camp kit I see is that you can see the bolts in the panel gap between the boot lid and the rear wing. welding isn't really an option if your paint is in anyway good.

abm914 · Post by **abm914** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:29 pm

One way to fit struts is up through the engine bay opening, so when open they are virtually parallel to the boot. Am trying to find a photo of a german 914-6 that did it this way.

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hughicol · Post by **hughicol** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:04 pm

fourteener wrote:Only drawback to the camp kit I see is that you can see the bolts in the panel gap between the boot lid and the rear wing. welding isn't really an option if your paint is in anyway good.

The bolts provided are quite small and I doubt if they will be very noticable when fitted as the rubber seal will hide most, if not all, of the heads.

Dave

swapped · Post by **swapped** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:02 am

Could you share the sizing / spec of the struts with us all?

I'd love gas struts front and rear (I fill-up the tank with the bonnet propped-open on the back of my head), and I'm happy to arrange brackets, and to scour scrap-yards for matching struts, but I'm faced at the moment with too much trial-and-error in prospect to look into it seriously. A set of measurements would be just the ticket to get me going.

Carl

hughicol · Post by **hughicol** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:15 pm

swapped wrote:Could you share the sizing / spec of the struts with us all?

I'd love gas struts front and rear (I fill-up the tank with the bonnet propped-open on the back of my head), and I'm happy to arrange brackets, and to scour scrap-yards for matching struts, but I'm faced at the moment with too much trial-and-error in prospect to look into it seriously. A set of measurements would be just the ticket to get me going.

Carl

Unfortunately I only went for the rear struts as I found by moving the springs one notch, the front ones made the bonnet stay up quite easily.

Dave

fourteener · Post by **fourteener** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:27 pm

Here is a picture of visible bolts

swapped · Post by **swapped** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:28 pm

Unfortunately I only went for the rear struts as I found by moving the springs one notch, the front ones made the bonnet stay up quite easily.

Dave

Unfortunately, my bonnet springs are on the last notch and still floppy

When I release my bonnet catch (from the front of the car), the springs have the ability to raise the bonnet to approximately horizontal, and that's it.

I'll continue to call it 'character' for the time-being.

Carl

hughicol · Post by **hughicol** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 2:34 pm

fourteener wrote:Here is a picture of visible bolts

How visible are they when the rubber seal is in place?

DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

whats the secret then?

whats the secret then?

Boot Torsion Springs