drgon

In the past 24 hours, I've pulled a crankshaft and pistons out of a donor motor, pulled the crankshaft and pistons out of my current motor (#3 had a spun bearing and is, for the moment, beyond repair). That was last night. Today since 8am, my dad and I have since replaced the main bearings, rear main seal, and oil pump seal, cleaned and replaced the oil pump, swapped in the new crank bearings and crankshaft, installed the pistons and new rod bearings and torqued down the girdle. Also inspected the head for leaking valves (1987 944S, 16 valve woo!) and none are leaking. Bullet dodged. Onward to victory...

Dave W.

Found a good used sunvisor! I didn't think they existed. I was about to resign myself to purchasing a new visor when I noticed the price had gone up again. I'm glad I called my local dismantler, I got lucky today.

V2Rocket

finally got a chance to mock-up one of my many slow projects...

HICKS

Installed a new complete passenger half shaft. Striped some Stage 8's with my worn Matco 8mm. Warrantied my Matco 8mm. New Redline MT-90 and drain/fill plugs in the trans. Beveled the Pagid Oranges in the rear, and new rear Zimmerman Z-Coat rotors.

BoulderGeek

After several tries with different geometry and thread pitch bolts, I eventually settled on a working combination for the shifter thrust bearing fix!

FYI, if you get the shouldered M10 stainless steel bolt (with the M8 threads) from McMaster-Carr, 50mm will be too long. They measure differently, for some reason. I ended up with an M10 x 50MM semi-shouldered galvanized bolt in 1.5 thread pitch. The 45 was just a couple of threads too short.

Unfortunately, I thought I was being so smart by protecting my interior as I used the grinding wheel to cut the weld off of the OEM shifter. Somehow, I let the grinder hit the console border and ground a chunk of foam out of the console cover. Not happy. I can get a leather cover for $115 on fleabay. The shifter feels amazing, just with the thrust bearings at the front end. Too bad I screwed up my console in doing in. :-(

V2Rocket

i think there is some variance in the size of the hole for the shifter and the adjustment along the shift linkage.
my car the 50mm bolt works just right...but you couldn't fit a 51mm in there

BoulderGeek

I ordered a 3M vinyl and leather repair goop kit (as seen on TV in the 70s).

HICKS

Drove to work, and took a picture.

morghen

Wasnt today but close enough as it was sunday

Inspected how stuff looks under the cam cover @5 years(and 3 oil changes) since last check.
Upgraded the cam oiler elbow from 32 years old brittle plastic to brass.

HICKS

What oil are you using?

thomasmryan

Everyone uses that unicorn blood))

Did the drivers side CVs last night and took a 10 mile spin. The inboard cv by the exhaust runs 30F hotter than the others hence the replacement of all four at 94k

morghen

this stuff

Tiger03447

Well, I made some progress today. Installed the rebuilt door handle with new rubbers on the passenger side door, installed the door card and the radio speaker. Don't know how long the door card was out since the car came that way..Hope that the window motor works..don't want to do this all again.....

V2Rocket

finally mailed out Tiger's AOS o ring

drove my 944 around on some errands. AC working nicely in this 90 degree weather.

BoulderGeek

I ordered new AOS seals, dipstick o-ring, injector o-rings and oil filler cap seal from Pelican Parts.

Hoping this is the key to my WOT oil burning.

Oh, also got another order shipped from Mark at Plyhammer's Parts. Mark has been taking fantastic care of me with very reasonable pricing and quick turnarounds on additions to my 944. I'm really impressed with how well he's been doing.