I’m planning to move my family and extended family (in 18-20 months) into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me. We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. Please know that I will be expecting the following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not
3. All Mexican government forms need to also be printed in English, and banking ins—-utions.
4. I want my children to be taught Spanish by English-speaking (bilingual) teachers.
5. Schools need to include American culture and history, and celebrate American holidays.
6. I want my kids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles at their school.
7. Please plan to feed my kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
8. I will need a local Mexican driver’s license so I can get easy access to government services.
9. I do plan to get a car and drive in Mexico, but I don’t plan to purchase car insurance, and I probably won’t make any special effort to learn local traffic laws.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers do not get the memo from their president to leave me alone, please be sure that every patrol car has at least one English-speaking officer.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my house top, put U.S. flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, or have any labor or tax laws enforced on any business I may start.
13. Please tell all the Mexican people to be extremely nice and never say a critical things about me or my family, or about the strain we might place on their economy.
14. And when I retire, I want social security benefits to which I never contributed a dime.

Thank you, I am sure this can be accomplished easily as America has been doing this for many years!
U.S. citizen and taxpayer

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And yes, I now subscribe to his channel.

I’m glad the shop owner isn’t being charged.  As for the two that are in the hospital, see, stupidity is painful.

Also, I bet there was Meth involved.

I know it’s been a while, and you guys may be wondering wtf is up.  To tell the truth, I’ve been having a blast driving this car.  A bunch has happened since I last posted.

Mad props to NoFuel for lending a hand and a driveway changing out the master brake cylinder and helping find the gremlin making the engine run rich.  Thanks bro.  I got the power bleeder in and bled the brakes last Saturday.  I just have to adjust the free play in the pedal to finish that system.  Woot!  The bronze pedal cluster busings are pure butter compared to what we pulled out.

I got the branch piece on the passenger side properly clamped up and now the heat will nearly burn you up.  I found the perfect material to secure the heat exchanger end where my clamp just wouldn’t fit right.  Copper roof flashing.  I didn’t make any measurments on the piece, but it extended about 3/16ths on the branch side, and ~1 1/2″ on the exchanger side, and as wide as I could conform to the U shaped clamp.  The flashing was easily flared on the branch side.  I used a flat head screw driver and a vise to stamp a locking ridge on the exchanger side.  At any rate, it clamped up great.  I still have to finish the drivers side, but it’s pretty solid as it is now.  The passenger side was loose on the exchanger side and was the cause of much squeaking.   No squeaks now.

Oh, I got a Hula girl just behind my left ear in the read window.  She never stops grooving, only when it’s parked.

I installed the fog light flasher module.  That is a definite must if your 914 can’t do this.  The hardest part was removing and reinstalling the fog light dash switch.  Other than that is was plug and play, srsly.  Now, when I hit the high beam switch, the fog lights flash, and they stay on as long asI hold the lever in.  It works like this until you actually pop the head lights, then the lever acts like it normally would.  Also, I can now turn my fog lights on with the dash knob without poping the head lights, works with the running lights on as well.  Perfect for near dusk lighting.  I have to angle both of mine up a tad.

Oh, I installed a foolie switch for the radio.  I found a retro looking switch (DPDT I think) and the dash already had the hole I needed.  The common connection goes to the AUX power lead on the radio, one side goes to the constant 12V, the other to the cig lighter fuse port (which powers on with the key set to “ON).  When it’s switched down, it’s on the switched power lead.  When it’s up, the constant 12V lead fools the radio into thinking the car is running.  That’s pretty much all it does.  It does however keep the coil from burning up if the engine isn’t actually running.  Don’t ask how I found out about that.

I’m making a replacement for the center cushion.  What this car really lacked was cup holders.  That may at first seem kind of stupid, but trust me, try going about your day without using the cup holders.  I found a pic on the webz that got me inspired.  I don’t have too much woodworking experience, and no box making skills, so I got to looking at the center seat box/cushion assembly.  The seat and box are connected with a piano hinge with three screws on the seat.  The box I wanted to use for storage.  I found a basic formed plastic cup holder, change cage, knick knack front box and an area for about 10 music CD cases.  It was small enough, but would require some trimming for what I needed.  Currently I have the base seat replacement laminated with a center dado channel on the top piece facing down.  I then drilled an access hole underneath of where the plastic tray would be mounted.  More on that later.  I’ll be veneering the ply with walnut.  I have the top aft portion covered in  an 1/8th of matching grain walnut, but it’s only rough sanded.  I was working on this this past Sunday.  It was getting late, so I decided to stop and try what I had to see if I pursue this line of work.  As it turns out, I think I’m starting to get used to the new feel.  Two is all that’s going to get this this car at any given time.  The cup holder works great.  Best to put it on the passenger side, a medium kind of starts getting in the way.  I think I’m going to finish this project, and I’m looking forward to seeing the dark wood finish of the walnut.

If it’s not cold this weekend, I should be getting inthe rest of the sway bar bushings.  I’m hoping this will eliminate the annoying rattle whenever I hit any bump in the road.  Just have to see.

One gremlin that came up was the fact that my output shaft seals are leaking.  I’m going to need to drain the tranny, pull the CV joints and half shafts to replace the shaft seals.  I got the tools and parts to get it done, but I just havent gotten a good day to dive into that.  I hear it’s pretty common, and fairly easy to fix.  I just need to get motivated.  I keep an eye on the oil level, and I carry more oil and the tool to pull the plugs.  A 17mm allen.  That’s a pretty big allen wrench.  A big shout out to Dave and his son.  We met at the Advance store and talked 914′s for quite a while.  I now know that the CV bolt tool is not a 12 point torx.  It is however an 8mm triple square.  And it’s a very high torque wrench design.  It also is the CV tool for the 911′s and 944′s.    At any rate, I gotta get those seals swapped out.

Finally found what was making the hot idle pop so much.  I thought it was a stuck open cold start valve, and went so far as to put a cut off valve on the cold start valve fuel line off the driver side rail.  But that wasn’t it.  At least now I have a way of testing it.  A main manifold pressure sensor would make it rev idle, and it wasn’t doing that.  I checked and verified a number of other things, but it boiled down to adjusting the throttle switch and retiming the ignition.  As it was initially set, the throttle switch was right on the break point when the throttle was fully closed.  That point should be at 2 degrees open on the butterfly valve.  Essentially, at idle the brain thought the throttle was opening and increased the fuel flow to accommodate more air flow, and thus making idle run rich and chuff alot when idling at temp.  It also dropped the idle to between 400 and 900 rpm (cold to hot).  I’ll have to put a good tack on it to get firmer numbers, but it idlea stupid slow now.  Makes the hula girl dance a bit.  Retiming it also made a world of difference.  I’m pretty sure it was horribly advanced, judging from the steroidesque rumblings of something more like a beast of a cam, and sporting another pair of cylinders.  Although that kind of sounds cool, but try ordering lunch at the drive through.  I’m still getting a little chuff every so often at a hot idle, but nothing to bitch over.  I’m not so sure about a couple of spots though.  Some throttle settings seem to richen up at point that they shouldn’t.  I’d love to find another throttle switch to test.

I guess that this has been kind of epic.  To those that are still reading, thanks.

Went to visit a friend that’s about an hour and a half south of me.  I’m going to be picking him up next Saturday to head to NC to visit another firend.  It was a good day to really road test the 14.  I have to say that I’m on the shy side of ecstatic, 26.2 mpg average over ~150 miles.  Leaning it up has really improved driveability and fuel economy.  It’s amazing what three or four psi difference can do.

I’m sure this is the first car that I’ve ever had that I actually enjoy driving.  I’ll tally up the miles at the end of the month, but I’ve put a few miles on it in a very short time.

I’d like to bust some shout-outs to some folks.  First to the guys at Goodfellas, it was good to talk cars with you.  Also, to the family that git me up at the gas gas station, thanks for asking.  Funny thing about those folks, their boys in the back seat said they knew that car from the Need for Speed video game, they were digging it big time.

Nah, hit the jump.

I hope you ladies at Exxon didn’t dump the DVR footage and post it to YouTube of my little dance I did for ya, I know it made your day.

Here’s one for all you drivers that will not pass me, please watch the road, short glances.  Drive safe.  To the haters, bite me.

Pam, thanks for listening to me randomly babble during the day.

Maydog, I showed you mine, get on that dude to get your 911 finishizzled.  I gotta get in touch with J.U.  I emailed him yesterday.

Michell and Haley, thanks for noticing, honk next time.  =8-)

See, no 914 babble.

After that, I changed out the rear brake line, which ironically enough, wasn’t nearly a pain as the other rear line. Took maybe a half hour this time. Then I popped the inside right front and separated the halves and honed the cup.  I feel much better about that brake now.  The left front I think might have been the crankiest of the bunch.  It just gave me a fit, but all in all, I’m satisfied with how it turned out.  I called it quits a little while ago with it sitting on the bench ready to put back on.  A half hour or so putting it on and changing out the flexible line and It’ll be ready to bleed.

I’m glad I got the speed bleeder sets.  They’re like regular bleeder nipples, but they have a check valve so you can bleed the brakes by yourself.  Pretty neat.  I’m thinking an hour or two to purge the so-so fluid I’ve been using and put in the good blue fluid and bleed the whole system.

Setting up the car to free the clutch is going to require some planning.  Maybe I’m just paranoid, but I can see the potential for something to go horribly wrong.  I know the possibility is remote and I shouldn’t worry so much.  I’ll get it freed up tomorrow.

Oh, and Tom has a long mustache.

I know you guys will be waiting.

Thanks.