My '72 911T

[Bootsy]

Play dough rocks but doesn't smell as good as it used to

[Gary71]

Small update! As the car is hibernating this winter to avoid encouraging any more rust (I've had enough of that!) I finally decided to get the wheels refurbished, a job I've been putting off since I bought the car.

Work done by Early 911 down in Sussex:

Boxes of shiny things:



Nice detailing:



Oh and the cracked one:



Whilst I would not normally advocate welding of wheels I'm going to have to get over it as I can't source a replacement. So it's off to a man that knows of these things in the morning and then, as long as it goes OK, back down to Sussex to finish the refurb process which stopped half way when they found the crack.

Can't wait for the weather to turn (and the salt to go!) so I can get out in the car again.

[hot66]

Bugger on the crack . As you know, a couple of years ago I found 2 of my wheels were cracked , everyone should check their wheels as it's more common than you think.

[johnM]

Hi Gary

Shinny ones look great. Bit of a bugger about the crack. I wonder if flat 6 are more susceptible to cracking than others. I give my deep 6 a quick look rack time I wash them. Maybe I should look a little harder.

Hope the welding goes ok.

Kind regards.

[Gary71]

They have a really sharp edge around the edge of the hole in the rim from where it is blanked out which is just asking for it to crack!

If the welding (of the two cracks!) goes OK I'm going to very lightly break the corner remove any notches before sending it back to Mr Moss.

[Gary71]

Done!

[Midlifecrisis]

Looking good Gary, I have just got mine back from Harvey Weidman

[Gary71]

Time for an update...

I've not done anything to it!

At some point I guess it just becomes a car/toy rather than a project and now I just drive it rather than fix it which is odd...

So new MOT obtained last week and time to get back out to Wales with the boy for a drive just because we had nothing better to do! Very oppressive grey skies today, but luckily still plenty of sunshine and no rain.

I tend to stop at the same point each time, although not always in the same direction, on some random sheep track off the Blych Groes pass and take a photo. Interesting to see how that has changed over the years:

June 2015


June 2013


July 2011


February 2010

[Lightweight_911]

Those shots have always been some of my favourite 911 pictures - & each time gets better then the time before ...

[johnM]

Great photo's I've always liked your car despite the fact my favourite colour is viper green

[Gary71]

A lot has happened since I last updated this thread, so I thought I would take the opportunity (whilst laying on my back with a crack in my pelvis...) to update it with extracts from the other threads. So excuse the cutting and pasting for those that have been keeping up.

[Gary71]

Although I've owned the car for 13 years and driven many, many hard miles I've never had the engine apart except for doing the timing chains and ramps a few years back. I have no idea of the overall mileage or previous rebuild history, but routine maintenance has been thorough in my time with the car anyway!

The engine is stock throughout, apart from turbo rocker covers, retaining Zeniths, iron cylinders & 3/4R mag case, and is matching numbers to the car. The original plan was for more power but the reality of cost and complexity going down that slippery slope meant I switched to a stock rebuild, particularly after measuring the pistons & cylinders and finding them to be serviceable.

So... Here we go



The apprentice took the carbs off and then I went over to see Keith (myatt1972) to borrow his engine stand.

A short time later:



At least one of the oil leaks was pretty obvious!

[Gary71]

Ready to drop:



And up in one slick move from trolley balanced on jack, to motorbike lift and onto the stand.



I stuck the rocker covers on with some evil sealant last time around and spent a joy filled 2 hours getting them off. After that I had to buy two new upper rocker covers. Note to self: Don't do this again! They didn't leak though...

[Gary71]

Some exhaust abuse:



And start to reveal the interesting bits:

Nothing scary on the LH bank, hone marks still evident, no obvious lip (save the carbon build up)




Some heads with more carbon than others, which correlated to the state of the plugs.

[Gary71]

I had been kidding myself to only do the top end, but I got over it and took it apart properly:



'Where there is doubt, there is no doubt' should be the moto for this one.

It turns out this was a good call:

Worn main bearings - Although just hanging in there



Completely shot intermediate shaft bearing:



Not entirely certain you should have carbon build up on the side of the piston... Two are like this.