What did you do in/on/for your Porsche today?

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Decided to spend the afternoon like another old timer DDK member & just wash me car. Believe it or not, first wash this year for it
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Or as good a job mind, he gets all the wheels off

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markm wrote:Decided to spend the afternoon like another old timer DDK member & just wash me car. Believe it or not, first wash this year for it
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Or as good a job mind, he gets all the wheels off

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What about the 993? That need a wash too?Image
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No, already done that one the other week
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markm wrote:No, already done that one the other week
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Great night drive back the long way from Mr Champions. Service and valves done.

Car running so great. All the time and money over the last couple of years on various projects is so worth it especially @7200!

Still some bits to go after but there always will be!


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Loaded the parts hauler (!) and headed south to strip down the bargain basement 996 engine, and everything suggests it was a well looked after 71k mile car as described

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No bore score, bearings all in fine condition, heads not cracked. The perfect base for a race engine. All we found were worn chain guides and a collapsed chain tensioner


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Last step of a sill and kidney bowl area.Image

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So big day today. A rare event when I wash a car. Got out all the equipment: two buckets, grit guard, soft washing mit, special micro fibre cloth, snow foam, very expensive shampoo, special wheel brush, hose pipe etc. Not really! My usual builder's bucket, cheap sponge, washing up liquid and a chamois leather. Forced into washing the car as the builders did not shut the garage door as instructed three weeks ago and the car was covered in dust.
The pile you can see behind the car is my next door neighbour's as they are having extensive work done. Image

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To take advantage of the dry weather/roads today, took the 911 out locally to run everything and be ready to put it to sleep for the winter, unless we have some good dry salt-free days...

It has been standing for about 7 weeks, so filled the small tool box with the bare essentials as usual ( do this every time i go out in it, never used a single tool out and about in 34 years) and down the local village-to-village lanes to to the local airport.

Started after the usual 3 seconds of churning and to 6 pots straight away, no blue or other smoke, so good. :)

It just simply worked. :bounce:

What a great simple car this is. Always surprises me how nice it is on the roads despite some hard hillclimb bits still in the chassis, even the brakes seemed ok!

Found a local land mark to pose in front of. :drunken:

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Great shot
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Put led bulbs in my 914. I couldn't replace the top two on the Speedo. I didn't want to take off the Speedo cable.

However, almost ready for a road trip soon but the rear right brake is rubbing. Whoever, designer these brakes in Porsche or VW owns many people an explanation Image

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Ticked off a couple of little jobs… and vacuumed properly after ImageImage

Before and afters!

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Always so satisfying to tick off some little jobs
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Bootsy wrote:Always so satisfying to tick off some little jobs
Bootsy wrote:Always so satisfying to tick off some little jobs

Agreed. Oh and my accelerator pedal was really low versus brake so I added one of these as a non permanent fix. Heel & toe heaven now Image

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not today but sunday. i stripped down the starter as it has always been slow and recently steuggled to start at all. thought I'd have a look inside before i took for a rebuild.

Turns out what little grease that was left inside had gone hard.

So a liberal smearing was done, put it back together and bench tested.

Holy shite it sounded like a jet engine! going to fit it and hope it's all good. If not it's off to the rebuilders.
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