My window switch for the passenger side has been acting up so I decided to take it apart and clean it out using Clark's Garage instructions.

Easy enough repair, right?

Well the good thing is I got it done in no time and reinstalled it. But then I realized that it was installed upside down so I had to take it apart all over again.

In any case for those of you who have done the repair there are two little ball bearings on top of these copper tubes that are spring loaded. The bearings simply rest on these tubes and of course fall off when you are trying to reinstall the rest of the components.

I thought if I press down on the bearings just a bit they will be more likely to stay. Nope! Instead one of them shot out like a cannon and took the spring with it.

I was doing this repair on the kitchen table so now I was in recon mode to look for this little bearing that is probably 2mm in size. Flashlight in hand and on all fours I begin searching all over the kitchen for this thing.

Finally find it about 30 minutes later nearly 20 feet from the table, close to my garage door! The spring fortunately was just under the table.

It all ends well however as about five minutes later I completed the repair and all is now well.

But it just seems with these cars even the most simple repairs turns into an event filled afternoon!

Gotta love these cars!!!

 

haha. yea, working on P cars is something a little special. But really unless is an American Iron Race car or a honda... its a pain in the *** to work on.

I cant tell you how many stories i have from working on subaru's.

 

I refuse to work on Asian cars, American cars **** me off because they mix metric and inch hardware, German cars have their dammit moments - but I still would rather work on my 944 than anything else.

 

i'd rather work on a 944 than a 951.


but then again, i'd rather drive a 951 than a 944.

 

You're right about working on the American cars...My fiancee used to have an Oldsmobile and I was working on changing the oil. The damn oil plug would not come out for anything. Come to find out it was in a metric size.

But of course every other repair done on the car used American sizes until that point.

My biggest complaint with the 944 is the lack of space between components. I'm not even a big dude yet have trouble fitting my hands between many spaces to get to things. But I imagine that is an issue with all cars today.

 

I remeber working on my friends old american truck in high school. There was so much space in the engine bay you could literally add a second engine in it with the origional still there. We were so tempted to make it 4wd....

I wish my 951 had space to work on it like that thing did. But then I'd want to throw a 928 engine in or something.

 

I clean up almost as much spilled blood as oil.

 

Try working on a Honda that has spent all its years on the roads up here in salt country. If you don't break off a bolt every time you work on the car then your are doing something wrong.

 

Dip the ball bearing in grease. Then it stays in place just fine.

 

if i EVER get the chance to buy the clarkes garage guys a beer or twenty, i am SURE gonna do it. they have pulled my bacon out of the fire a BUNCH of times.

 

Wait until you are installing turbo #3 because the company, despite being in the business for decades, still can't build a turbo correctly.

That's not really Porsche related, is it...... cool!

 

Yep. a toothpick of dielectric grease holds it in place nicely.


Rather drive it than work on it- but both are theraputic for me.

 

That's a great idea. I was thinking of something like that but wasn't sure if it would cause the switch to get "sticky"

Now I know for the other two switches when they begin acting up!