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Just friendly bit of encouragement for the weekend or shade tree mechanic. After you work on your car make sure you have all the nuts, bolts, washers or what ever back in place when you re-assemble. Don't just say "F" it if you're missing a piece and grab some other piece or finish assembly without that nut, bolt or washer. Slapping it together and running the car anyways is very bad especially on the intake tract. This is what happens. I bought an '87 951 from a fella that had done some work on his car, gave it a tune up is what he said but it never really ran right after words. He says he couldn't figure out way performance was down mostly due to the lack of boost. So he parked the car and it sat for several years until things in his life had changed and he decides to sell it. So I come along and buy the car primarily as a parts car, this was about two years ago. Come to present day and get around to the engine and when I was breaking down the intake I notice there was a missing fastener, at that point I already know what the problem was.
So the moral of the story kids is don't run your engine if you are a fastener short,find that nut, bolt or washer before you turn that key even if it means totally taking everything back apart!
So the moral of the story kids is don't run your engine if you are a fastener short,find that nut, bolt or washer before you turn that key even if it means totally taking everything back apart!
Learnt all about fod in my 20’s while training as an aircraft engineer. Good advise, though not as catastrophic on a car it can still be expensive
There is no room for "close enough" when it comes to engineering.
When you got other things to do it can seem like good enough is the right call, but it never is.
Great story. Everyone thinks it isn't going to happen to them, so I am not sure that this is a lesson you can learn without making the mistake yourself.
There is no room for "close enough" when it comes to engineering.
When you got other things to do it can seem like good enough is the right call, but it never is.
Great story. Everyone thinks it isn't going to happen to them, so I am not sure that this is a lesson you can learn without making the mistake yourself.
Unless you're lucky enough to see it happen to someone else! This is the 3rd time I've seen a thread about this. The first 2 were enough to make me paranoid!
I once spent half a day looking for a washer that ended up *under* a board of plywood beneath the car. There ain't no physics that can explain that one yet
I left a dowel pin in the cam tower and while the car was being run hard, a lobe for the cam slap it upward and broke the P out of the Porsche lettering on the top of the cam tower. You could see the cam from outside of the motor. The motor oil was mixed with gas from running rich before the dowel pin punched a hole in the cam tower housing. This oil poured out to the headers and caught the engine on fire. It was put out fast or it would have been disastrous. Moral of the story, refer to the OP's advice to check for factory spare parts.
05-29-2018, 04:35 PM
This is what will happen if you are a bolt short
