Simple service, but there is always a fight...
Time to do a bit of TLC on my long term ownership (38 years) 911.
Usual pre-spring jobs, oil, it's filter, the engine air filter, new fan belt as i can't remember when I last changed it, but a good 8 years now, plugs, and those pesky anti roll bar bushes the MoT man was not happy about last July.
Can't stand a cramped garage space when working on my 'machines' so had to tip the Yamaha and the Lola out into the fine sunshine, what a great weather day to get this lot done.
Mrs Hillclimber decided to go shopping.
Did the fan belt first, all apart easy with the right tools, and installed the new Porsche part. The old one looks perfect....Needed one shim in between the 'V'. Still a touch tight, but will soon ease off a touch.
Changed the plugs, again no idea when they were last changed, but the plug gaps had all grown all of 1 thou to 29 thou, but new went in @ 28 thou.
In this one plug top fell off! The corrosion was so bad inside the wire connection the inside connector had rotted away. New one arrived this afternoon (£38!).
The air filter was almost perfect, but as I had a new one that went in too.
Jacked the car way up to drop the oil which went amazingly mess-free, not a drop of old oil was split on the floor, a first for me.
Used my latest filter removing tool, what a brilliant bit of kit; no more bashing a large screw driver through the can.
The two sump plugs were totally free of anything steel and bitty, so a nice sign.
This hard/thrashed engine has had an oil change every year since i installed it in 1993. It was 60K miles old then and must be around 130K by now and still on the factory build, must check the MoT miles some time.
That all done, and time for the roll bar bushes, the ones that push onto the ball pins in the rear arms.
This will be my 3rd set since I've had the car, and to me can be 'one-of-those-jobs' where you wonder what Porsche was thinking with the design.
Getting the drop links off the arms was easy. Heat then to near melting point and a pry bar makes easy work of them.
Took the roll bar off to remove the drop links, check he bar and bushes and get ready for the fight that came along doing those acetal cup bushes...
New bushes to hand and the first bush was a pig to get in (as usual). Got it nice and warm but what a game as it refused to slip in evenly, but won the day in the end.
Discovered I had put the bush in from the wrong side...but the drop link was ok for the other side of the car! Whew.
Getting the drop link onto the ball was again the usual fight but after about 12 attempts it slid onto the ball. All a matter of balancing forces in play.
The other side took 5 minutes! All fell into place first time....
Jacked each rear suspension arm up until the shell just lifted off the axle stand (thus about road ride height) and tightened the roll bar bolts, same other side.
Oil into the car but will start it up tomorrow and set the oil level to tick-over-hot-mid way between min and max as Bob Watson used to lecture me all those years ago. (RIP)
Dew was starting to form over the Lola, can't have that, so time to put everything away.
Apart from the roll bar drop link bushes everything that came out of the car was perfect! The oil was almost still golden....
73T 911 Coupe, road/hillclimber 3.2L
Lola t 492 / 3.2 hillclimb racer
Boxster 98
Time to do a bit of TLC on my long term ownership (38 years) 911.
Usual pre-spring jobs, oil, it's filter, the engine air filter, new fan belt as i can't remember when I last changed it, but a good 8 years now, plugs, and those pesky anti roll bar bushes the MoT man was not happy about last July.
Can't stand a cramped garage space when working on my 'machines' so had to tip the Yamaha and the Lola out into the fine sunshine, what a great weather day to get this lot done.
Mrs Hillclimber decided to go shopping.
Did the fan belt first, all apart easy with the right tools, and installed the new Porsche part. The old one looks perfect....Needed one shim in between the 'V'. Still a touch tight, but will soon ease off a touch.
Changed the plugs, again no idea when they were last changed, but the plug gaps had all grown all of 1 thou to 29 thou, but new went in @ 28 thou.
In this one plug top fell off! The corrosion was so bad inside the wire connection the inside connector had rotted away. New one arrived this afternoon (£38!).
The air filter was almost perfect, but as I had a new one that went in too.
Jacked the car way up to drop the oil which went amazingly mess-free, not a drop of old oil was split on the floor, a first for me.
Used my latest filter removing tool, what a brilliant bit of kit; no more bashing a large screw driver through the can.
The two sump plugs were totally free of anything steel and bitty, so a nice sign.
This hard/thrashed engine has had an oil change every year since i installed it in 1993. It was 60K miles old then and must be around 130K by now and still on the factory build, must check the MoT miles some time.
That all done, and time for the roll bar bushes, the ones that push onto the ball pins in the rear arms.
This will be my 3rd set since I've had the car, and to me can be 'one-of-those-jobs' where you wonder what Porsche was thinking with the design.
Getting the drop links off the arms was easy. Heat then to near melting point and a pry bar makes easy work of them.
Took the roll bar off to remove the drop links, check he bar and bushes and get ready for the fight that came along doing those acetal cup bushes...
New bushes to hand and the first bush was a pig to get in (as usual). Got it nice and warm but what a game as it refused to slip in evenly, but won the day in the end.
Discovered I had put the bush in from the wrong side...but the drop link was ok for the other side of the car! Whew.
Getting the drop link onto the ball was again the usual fight but after about 12 attempts it slid onto the ball. All a matter of balancing forces in play.
The other side took 5 minutes! All fell into place first time....
Jacked each rear suspension arm up until the shell just lifted off the axle stand (thus about road ride height) and tightened the roll bar bolts, same other side.
Oil into the car but will start it up tomorrow and set the oil level to tick-over-hot-mid way between min and max as Bob Watson used to lecture me all those years ago. (RIP)
Dew was starting to form over the Lola, can't have that, so time to put everything away.
Apart from the roll bar drop link bushes everything that came out of the car was perfect! The oil was almost still golden....
73T 911 Coupe, road/hillclimber 3.2L
Lola t 492 / 3.2 hillclimb racer
Boxster 98
