Half the day today was written off thanks to the fookwit PO of the Audi I bought last Saturday.
I got up early and today was the first day in a week that I have been at home in daylight. I went to move a few cars around and found two flat tyres on the Audi.
I used my foot pump to inflate them and went to check the other two’s pressure and could hear a hiss from a third tyre.
Not impressed I took the car down to my local Tyre garage and when they took the two tyres off with slow punctures they found what looked like old rope with a knot tied in it fed from the inside of the tyre outwards through two nail holes and cut off with a knife on the outside!
Suffice to say they all crowded around taking photo’s of these “puncture plugs” The tyres were so ragged from someone driving on them flat that I had to have two new ones. The third fortunately was a nail so I got this repaired properly.
While I was there we got a laser 4 wheel alignment done too. All a bit of a right royal expensive pain, considering I plan to change the wheels and tyres at some near point.
Obviously done as a bodge and certainly known about by the PO as it took 5 days to go flat and they’d been driven on flat for a considerable time and fooking dangerous to sell on like that.
Hey ho, the joy’s of second hand cars!
Suffice to say I didn’t start on the 914 until this afternoon. I fitted my freshly made bump stop and rubber to the engine lid first, perfect!
I then had a play with the Carb trumpets. I’d bought some nice billet turned ally ones and with messing about with the jets the otherday noticed that the flange on their base overhung the main jet holes just enough to make you have to take the trumpets off to unscrew the mains. This was obviously a faff, so I took them off and filed a neat semi-circular cut out in the flange to clear the jets and refitted them.
I then spent a few hours making one good underbody air deflector flap from two poorly molded Auto Atlanta replacements and tapped out the 3 mounting holes M5 to finish.
With the wind and rain picking up, I went back out to the garage and got under the car to remove the old remaining part of the broken off air deflector. I had to unclip the fuel pipes to get the old bolts out but once off I gave the area a damn good clean. The underside got touched in with stone guard and behind the fuel pipes above got a good coat of clear waxoil. All this should hopefully be dry by the morning so that I can bolt on the “remanufactured” air deflector.
As promised in between todays escapades I took a few photos in daylight (very dark cloudy daylight) of the engine bay to show the fitted vacuum advance pipe I made last week to sit neatly on the engine.
