So what did you do to your 928 Today......
04-26-2014, 12:11 PM
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Bought a 1993 GTS manual and drove it home 
It's midnight blue metallic, no rub strips, grey interior with sports seats. Mechanically very sound, needs some cosmetic TLC, new shocks all round and alignment.
Happy days.
It's midnight blue metallic, no rub strips, grey interior with sports seats. Mechanically very sound, needs some cosmetic TLC, new shocks all round and alignment.
Happy days.
04-27-2014, 04:16 AM
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Arnoud, one of my friends has a GTS painted in Minerva blue, looks quite similar to your friend Harris´s Tahoe blue. the red car is my wife´s Strosek Ultra 1991 Automatic.
Åke
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04-27-2014, 09:33 AM
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Finally got around of changing the 20+ years old and still original alternator cooling hose, before I did put both belly pans back to their final destination during last night.
I "copy catted" Ed Scherer's posting #15 as per this thread: https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...or-6-feet.html
Old hose taken out, actually in still surprisingly good condition (no crud on the inside = unrestricted). Still: done it's duty after 20+ years, time to let go...
New hose (from Roger) + screen as made from very fine aluminum mess & 50mm PVC rain pipe & duct tape, all put together with two (2) new clamps:
And put together on the cover plate (bit of a PITA to get it back, as the cable of AC tempaerature sensor is rather short. Putting it all on a separate aluminium bar as per the thread is actually a better idea, but I did not do so now.):
I "copy catted" Ed Scherer's posting #15 as per this thread: https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...or-6-feet.html
Old hose taken out, actually in still surprisingly good condition (no crud on the inside = unrestricted). Still: done it's duty after 20+ years, time to let go...
New hose (from Roger) + screen as made from very fine aluminum mess & 50mm PVC rain pipe & duct tape, all put together with two (2) new clamps:
And put together on the cover plate (bit of a PITA to get it back, as the cable of AC tempaerature sensor is rather short. Putting it all on a separate aluminium bar as per the thread is actually a better idea, but I did not do so now.):
04-27-2014, 07:08 PM
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04-28-2014, 11:49 AM
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Came up to a stop light... and... car died out. Pushed it to a nearby parking lot... Checked battery ground strap, was fine.
Popped the hood, pulled one of the air cleaner hoses, timing belt gone.
Thankfully my motor is not interference by design (81 RoW S). With a little luck there is no excessive carbon buildup, and, the fact that I was only at idle gives me a slightly better advantage at not damaging the top end than at any appreciable speed.
I'm going to just park her for a few days and sleep on it. Then acquaint myself with the job and all of the known possible both related, and extraneous "might as well" parts, and fixes/repairs that folks choose to do.
At the end of the day, it doesn't really upset me too much, after all it is just a car and it just takes work and a bit of money to fix. To be honest, my first reaction was to laugh because of how ironic it is... I mean, this is "the" 928 hallmark problem. I'm confident that I'll be up and running within a few weeks.
What I need to decide is if I should begin dismantling the front of the engine and then order parts, or if I should order the known replaceable parts and then order other things that I want to replace in a second order.
At the very least, I'll need to do the timing belt, water pump, rebuild the tensioner, install new idlers/rollers, cam seals, crank seal, and check the oil pump. At the very most... I bent a couple of valves and I need to pull the heads and do them. Life could be worse, right?
If anything this only commits me to my car more than I already had been.
Popped the hood, pulled one of the air cleaner hoses, timing belt gone.
Thankfully my motor is not interference by design (81 RoW S). With a little luck there is no excessive carbon buildup, and, the fact that I was only at idle gives me a slightly better advantage at not damaging the top end than at any appreciable speed.
I'm going to just park her for a few days and sleep on it. Then acquaint myself with the job and all of the known possible both related, and extraneous "might as well" parts, and fixes/repairs that folks choose to do.
At the end of the day, it doesn't really upset me too much, after all it is just a car and it just takes work and a bit of money to fix. To be honest, my first reaction was to laugh because of how ironic it is... I mean, this is "the" 928 hallmark problem. I'm confident that I'll be up and running within a few weeks.
What I need to decide is if I should begin dismantling the front of the engine and then order parts, or if I should order the known replaceable parts and then order other things that I want to replace in a second order.
At the very least, I'll need to do the timing belt, water pump, rebuild the tensioner, install new idlers/rollers, cam seals, crank seal, and check the oil pump. At the very most... I bent a couple of valves and I need to pull the heads and do them. Life could be worse, right?
If anything this only commits me to my car more than I already had been.
04-28-2014, 12:19 PM
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Changed out the upper radiator hose which had been seeping at the water neck , removed the Check Engine Light LED from the gauge cluster (why did I put one in there in the first freaking place? 
), adjusted the throttle cables and reset the idle potentiometer in the Alpha N control box. Oh, and installed the rear belly pan, because smog time.
), adjusted the throttle cables and reset the idle potentiometer in the Alpha N control box. Oh, and installed the rear belly pan, because smog time.
04-30-2014, 04:39 PM
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