I somehow managed to persuade someone on Craigslist to trade me their 914 for an old beat up Jeep Wagoneer I had. The kid had only had it for 2 weeks and then decided that it was too small. Score for me! Now to the tricky part...it's not assembled. It's came with a fairly clean (dusty, but not much grease) rebuilt 1.8L motor, transaxle, exhaust, and 4 coffee cans full of bolts, fasteners and miscellaneous gaskets (looks to be exhaust and some old injector gaskets that I wont need as the fuel injection is all put back together).
My main question: Is there any kind of special gasket or any important part/step that is required for mating the transaxle to the engine? It doesn't look like there is but the Haynes manual kept mentioning something about a felt washer that can't be left out, but it's very vague in it's explanation of where this felt washer goes....So, can I just bolt the transaxle to the engine as I'm assuming I can? I've already lined it up and it fits together great, just want to make sure I don't leave out something important that I haven't thought about.
Next question: Hooking up the fuel injection system (L-Jetronic). The Haynes manual instructed to clearly indicate which wire was taken off which injector so they are not mismatched during reassembly or irreparable damage will occur
....well, I never had the luxury of marking them as the engine was in the back of a truck when I got this car...so is there anyway I can tell which connections go to which injectors?
Here are some pics of my basically free 914. it's dirty, but once I get it all cleaned up and put back together it should be a neat little car
Looks like it used to be yellow, then got painted the white it is now. I peaked under the seat covers and it has awesome yellow and black plaid seats
I just might reupholster them to look like that again as they are really torn up.
