
Here's the back end of the transmission/motor. Based on a suggestion from another 914 AC customer, I purchased some long 8mm bolts to lower the transmission end about 8 inches and still keep it stable. Note the long silver rods (8mm bolts) in the diagram above. I used one floor jack to lower the back end of the tranny. I had to remove the speedo cable, the accelerator cable, the clutch cable and the shift linkage to do this (argh!).

I used the second floor jack to lower the front end of the motor assembly so that the 12" long motor bolts could actually slide out of the AC 24 motor.

Here's the end of the AC24 motor lowered so that I could extract the long bolts. Notice that I've already removed one in the upper right position on the round endcap.

Here are the pieces for the upgrade kit above one of the motor bolts. In short, a lock washer and flat washer replace the nylon ones that came with the kit. Loctite further holds the bolt in place.
While this was a real pain. I'm glad this is taken care of so I don't have to worry about it.
Tomorrow (hopefully): connecting the motor to the controller and possibly starting on connecting the batteries with high-current cable.
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About to do the same thing to my motor (fortunately, I have not yet attached it to the car :-).
Also, I've started a blog of my own on my progress:
volt914
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