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body/frame(?) Problem, is there a solution?
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if ya'll have looked at pics of my car you know that it doesn't have 914 headlights... I attempted to fix this problem the other day. I got the headlight buckets in place... but now I know why they were replaced! it seems that the front end is not straight it is about 2-3mm off center!  this makes one head light have too much room, and the other not open because of the hood(or scrape the hood if it is already up) is there a way to fix this? without having an professional body shop? (read: I am cheap!) I looked under the car and the bend is so slight I can't see the point the bend occurs, but I know it's there now and it's bugging me! has anyone had this before? how was it fixed? thanks! -Wayne
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05-31-2002, 07:49 AM
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It may be possible to straighten using a hyd body shop type press and a couple of boards. Some heat might help too. Though I am not a body shop guy, I have straighten some sheetmetal before using this technique.
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05-31-2002, 08:08 AM
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Ditto, Small hydrolic bottle jack. bunch of 2x4 2x6 2x10 and about 20 hours of trail and error. I caution you. you can do even more damage if not careful.
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ok guys, I appreciate the help, but I don't understand where to use the jack to apply pressure... everything in the fron seems to need to move toward the driver side about 1-2mm to make everything center up.... I have very little body experience and I'm trying to avoid an expensive fix since this is only affecting the headlights, the car drives fine(I've had it up to about 65-70 and it still held the road straight), so the suspension is ok... I just can't picture how to use the bottle jack...
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05-31-2002, 02:15 PM
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Body work is simply reverse engineering. Determine how things got bent and strive to apply force to the affected panels in the opposite direction. There are no two body jobs alike. It takes a bit of creativity. I've jacked cars against a phone pole, up against a big beam above with a 4 x 4 placed on the spot that needed to go down and used the bottle jack against boards diagonally across the trunk. Amoungst mant other crazy looking setups. I might add.................
  
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1972 Porsche 914 1.7L/1.8
1982 Porsche 911SC
