Bent out of shape

[GIBSON]

I knew I should have left those CV joints alone. Here's what I saw before coming up for air. Now I know why the alignment guys said they could not get the rear quite right.
I guess so. I should have ignored those posts on aluminum trailing arm upgrades. Now I get to do one. Oh well. Now we'll see how easy Porsche made it to remove the bananas with the engine in when they changed things in '73.
Not sure how it happened. Only owned the car for the last 8 months. The s.s. brake line looks pretty bad too. My back is hurting already.


Bruce Herrmann
73 911S

[pwd72s]

Bruce, my sympathies. Somebody did a bit of sliding, then went "smack" against a difficult to move object, like a curb or in a ditch. At least, that how I did the deed in my old 1970 911T, decades ago....an afterthought: Perhaps EASY or one of the other wreked-em yards in that area would have an original style replacement? Just in case you're not really hot on the idea of the aluminum arms.

[This message has been edited by pwd72s (edited 06-24-2001).]

[GIBSON]

I think I might go with the original style, I'm not trying to take weight out of the car for competition purposes so that's not an issue, any other reasons to go aluminum?
I figure it won't be too hard to find the original style. We'll see.
Bruce

[Mrdi]

Did you have a PPI done on this 73 before you purchased it?

[GIBSON]

No, I purchased it without a ppi. I knew enough about the car to be fairly sure. I'll have to eat this one but It's ok. I was going to replace all rear bushings anyway. Purchasing a car from long distance can make it tough to get a good inspection done. All in all, I like the car and don't mind the things I've had to do to get it
right.

Bruce Herrmann
73911S