1974 European owner's manual

[Dave at Pelican Parts]

Hey, all. I thought some of you might be interested in seeing the English-language owner's manual for European-spec 1974 914s. The manual shows the 1.8 with the dual carbs, and the higher-compression 2.0 stats. In addition, some of the spellings are English-ized (e.g., "tyres") but not all of them.

The manual is a very large (~75 MB) PDF file, so it may take a long while to download. Be warned.

http://www.914club.com/uploads/74_Euro_Owners_Man.pdf

--DD

[Tidybuoy]

Thanks Dave.

I have a Euro owners manual for my BMW and it's quite entertaining to read. It practically tells you how to rebuild the transmission on the side of the road - using a variety of rigging parts, including the use of a broom handle (those Germans think of everything). I'm anxious to look thru this 914 manual.

Hey, is there a way to save this. I tried, but it's acting like a web-site & not a pdf file & I'm not the most computer suave.....

One last thing (unrelated), when I use the spell check, I always get 914 as a misspelled word.....go figure.

Vern

[Tidybuoy]

opps, I figured out how to save it. I guess you have to click save in the adobe window and not the internet menu. Like I said, I'm just not that smart......duh

[Dave at Pelican Parts]

The manual isn't significantly different from the US version. Nothing about, for instance, roadside rebuilds. However, it is interesting to note the differences that are there. The biggest ones are the references to the European engines for 74.

--DD

[Rrrockhound]

OK, now I'm confused. The manual says the temp guage on the dash is for the oil temp. It also says the temp gauge in the center console is for the oil. I thought the one on the dash was for the cyl head??? What's the point of 2 oil temp guages?

[Dave at Pelican Parts]

A car will, unless someone screwed up at the factory, only have one or the other. The center-console cars got the oil temp gauge for the center console and the big brake warning light at the top of the combo gauge; the non-center-console 2.0 cars got the oil temp gauge in the combo gauge. There has never been a stock gauge for CHT.

I know of at least one car that seems to have been delivered by the factory with both, though. They were both hooked up to the same sender wire, and they both read oddly until the owner unplugged one of them. It seems to have been a manufacturing goof, though.

--DD

[Rrrockhound]

Originally posted by Dave at Pelican Parts
A car will, unless someone screwed up at the factory, only have one or the other.
--DD

Thanks, Dave. My center console must have been added on then, because I have 2 temp gauges. If they're both for oil, that explains why they seem to pretty much echo one another.

Hey, that means the oil temp gauge in the center console is redundant and I can put something else in there! Time to go shopping...