RM512

DAMN!! That's like 5 minutes from my house.
Going for a walk

Serge944

3k for a clutch? What?

Legoland951

No matter how many times you do a clutch in a turbo, its a pain in the ***.

PorscheDoc

Lol, nah it is pretty easy. Going to try and break my 5 hour record next weekend on an 86 951. I cheat with a lift and air tools though

Legoland951

Had both with my last turbo clutch and have done over 10 of them and probably 30x with n/a clutches. Still a pain in the ***. It takes me a couple days to get over finger/muscle soreness removing damn exhaust components where no air tools can reach.

PorscheDoc

Sounds like you need a masseuse

billthe3

You guys are making me fear having to possibly do the clutch on my car...

Gator_86_951

Yep, clutch replacement is a bleeaacch without a lift for sho

PorscheDoc

Its not a horrible job. My first turbo clutch job I did (was actually my first clutch job ever), i did on jackstands and hand tools, with no help. It isn't the most fun laying on your back, but it is a big help if you have a guy that can hand you the tools you need for certain bolts, which saves you from crawling out from under the car so much. Seems like the wrench I needed at the time, would always be about 6 inches out of my reach, lol. With many under my belt now, I don't even bat an eye at the job anymore.

FSAEracer03

I would be surprised if someone bought that car, turned their own wrenches, and ended up spending more than $4500. The car seems clean, and you can get a good sport clutch kit from Paragon for under $800... if it were closer, and for sale about a month from now, I'd probably buy it.

Dr.Porsche

I'm in for helping to look at it..we could have a party with it. I call dibs on "bad cop!"

Airflite40

that leaves me to play good cop, i guess...

how does that go again?

I dont think the oil pan would leak since it has what 168k on the clock, so pan gasket would have already leaked and been fixed by now I would think.

who knows.

Porsche-O-Phile

Clutch jobs suck - no two ways about it.

The P.O. of my '85 944 lost love for it when he took on a clutch job that took almost a year. He'd go down, start working on the car, get irritated after an hour or two, come back inside, the car would sit for 2-3 more weeks, he'd repeat the process, etc. Finally after many months he had it done but absolutely hated the car and sold it to me for a song because he just didn't want to ever have to deal with it again.

This was an n/a too. 951s are worse in all respects.

faze

man, I need to put a clutch in my NA and you guys are making me anxious about it!

JayJ911T

There's that point in the clutch job where you "change". Meaning, after working for 3 hours, you're thrilled that you're half-way done with the speed and reference sensors. Then, when the feeling is back in your hands a couple days later, you can (hopefully) finish with the sensors.

Then there's the start-up fear of not fully seating the rear c'shaft seal as the car fires up.