DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

Thought I'd share my recent experience of this as the Haynes manual over complicates things and has probably put most people off touching a gearbox, but there is nothing here to scare anyone who knows one end of a spanner from the other. Bit of a long post, but it's not a five minute job! I'll assum...

Buy a new one... :( I spent hours tweaking and bending my bent strips by hand, it all looked fine, appeared to profile to the rubber, but still didn't fit. Worth a go before you commit the money, but don't expect miracles! As Andy mentioned ignore my lubricant advice! :wink: This may have saved me e...

Hung drawn and quartered would be too good for them! :evil: It will only go in with the seal & glass out. Whatever you do don't bend it! If it's not perfectly profiled to the rubber seal it will pop out again once you put the screen in. After six goes at getting my rear screen to go in with the ...

Thanks Luke, Do the lubricated bushes now rotate against the body and outer cover as the suspension operates? Is this how they are designed to work or just what we end up having to do to be able to fit them! :) I just have a feeling they will wear out pretty rapidly if the bush turns in the body whi...

Hopefully someone can offer some guidance on this one! I'm about to reassemble the back end of my 911 and the new spring plate rubber bushes (Weitmeister / Neatrix) I have fitted are a spectacularly tight fit into the body and the new cover brackets. With most suspension bushes you only tighten the ...

Luke, Alan, Very interesting. I've got no history on the car so this may well be the case. When you say 'later' what are we talking?

Sorry to hiijack your thread MdR.

My 72 2.4 doesn't even have a sump plug :( You have to take the sump plate off to get the oil out. Any ideas why Porsche made it like this, it just makes a messy process even worse? I've found that even with the oil tank empty and the sump plate off there is still a good litre or so of oil lurking a...

I learn something every day!

Do these mods make a difference on a 'dry' sumped engine? I can see how it works when the crank is slapping about in a bucket of oil, but not in air. No experience as such, just what I've read up on conventional engines. Seriously cool bus by the way 8). I have a long term plan (that the wife is una...

Hi Dom, Neither of these should be a fail. The fuel pipe gaitor is just a dirt shield and the gearshift gaitor missing will just increase interior noise! Assuming your rust situation is under control...then: Wheel bearings are always a classic failing, check the fronts for play and nip up if necessa...

Flankdrive is the neat idea that Snap-On had to drive the nuts from the flats rather than from the corners. The flankdrive has the corners relieved in the socket so it digs into the centre of the flat section of the nut as you apply torque, hence much less likely to round. The sockets may be expensi...

Maybe also try a 'flankdrive' socket. Snap On invented it, but I understand the Halfords professional are also flankdrive, not to mention resonable money. The other thing to try (in conjunction with heat, Plus Gas etc) is flattening the end of the socket. Grind off the chamfer on the socket lead in ...

Thanks for the advice David, I've now spoken to my tame welder, who could weld tinfoil to cast iron, he came over all nervous and told me to buy a new one! He basically said without detail understanding of the metallurgy he could not select the correct rod and promise it would survive. He was also c...

If they are M8 then you could open them out to M10 assuming there is enough material around the hole. Run an 8.5mm drill through to clean them up and then tap away. You can get taps from a local engineering stockist or http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/cat.jsp?ts=46897&id=102087 I bought the H...

The earth lead comes straight off the back of the lamp housing which can corrode horribly as it's made of some nasty monkey metal. I'd start by pulling the lamp out and checking this wire. It earths to the body just by the battery box (or a least it does on mine!). I have spent many a long hour tryi...