landsharklady

oooo! I have some cowboy boots and i can ride- but only english style. I'll need the gun and hat...

ROG100

We have plenty of guns in Texas and the locals speak English - well sort of.
The weather is sooooo much better than England.

I play a mean air filter.

landsharklady

Do you watch british Top Gear??
I've seen the US version and I don't mean to be rude but...

Yeah, the weather here sucks so bad right now, it's not usually quite this bad.
We played a festival in spain couple of weeks ago- lovely sun, came home and landed in a gale :-(

First thing we did (5am) was check no branches had fallen on the car!

docmirror

Yes UKTG is rather well liked over here. Our version was spastically horrible, and I'm being rather generous.

Man, I hope you got paid up front for the Spain gig. I hear they are tapped out, along with Greece and soon Portugal.

landsharklady

Flights and accommodation paid for- short holiday with a gig basically.

Did you see TG America special?? My favourite EVER when they drove through the bible belt!

SMTCapeCod

I almost posted your WWJCD t-shirt...

Of course, there is that little matter of his minion smashing up a 928 for shock value...

landsharklady

TTFN, it's taken me about 3 hours to do an hours work as i've been browsing the forums, found loads of very useful looking links.
Tomorrow I help my tattooist/friend fix her leaky 944 sunroof :-)

docmirror

Kewl. I got so sick of TG America I missed the 'special'. However, the bible belt provides plenty of grist for cheap laughs. Our religious contingent down here in the south are quite the target of parody ala Faulty Towers.

AirtekHVAC

Nice video....me likes

Fogey1

Welcome.

John Speake's shop
http://www.jdsporsche.com/

Keep following and reading around in here.

+928 to "find a shop that knows 928's." It'll be cheaper -and- done right the first time.

Hilton

Welcome.. interesting 928 A lot of car for 3 grand!

Whats the history of the car? DVLA says it was first registered in 1996 - so presumably it was imported? (last 6 digits of the VIN will probably be enough to tell which country it was originally sold to - 84xxxx).

In your shot of the interior, it looks like your oil pressure may be a bit low at idle (looks like its less than 5 bar with the engine barely warmed). Warm idle oil pressure (once the engine has warmed up, not just the coolant) should be in the 2.5-3 bar range, and pegged at 5 bar on the needle beyond about 2k rpms.

You should find out what weight of oil is in there - odds are the workshop put in Porsche's current recommendation (5W40 IIRC) which doesn't cut it for the 928 V8. You really want a decent 20W50 in there (this will start an argument.. but go post on the local 928uk mailing list - here's a post on oil there from last year).

20W50 has a higher film strength and will help protect against thrust bearing failure, along with regular releasing of tension on the flex plate as noted by others earlier in this. Its also what your owners manual recommends for the usual UK temperature ranges.

Have fun driving the snot out of it on B roads

landsharklady

Hi Hilton, car was first registered in '89 (1st jan according to the book) in Ireland. We actually paid less than 3k, px'd our 944, very happy with what we got for out money to say the least!
The picture showing the oil pressure hasn't one I took, it was from the original auction pictures of the car. Don't know if needle got stuck for a bit when that picture was taken, nothing untoward with any of the gauges since we've had it.
We don't have an owners manual! Best I've found is ash online 87 owners manual, if anyone knows where I can find an 89 manual either online or not for silly money, that'd be great.

landsharklady

Oh, Hilton, just seen the picture, it's not the over I was thinking it was, I took that the other day.. I'm pretty sure that the car wasn't running, just yet when that was taken as z was cleaning bird poo off of it. Will double check oil pressure today though. You guys don't miss a thing

landsharklady

Oh, Hilton, just seen the picture, it's not the over I was thinking it was, I took that the other day.. I'm pretty sure that the car wasn't running, just yet when that was taken as z was cleaning bird poo off of it. Will double check oil pressure today though. You guys don't miss a thing

landsharklady

Hilton, oil gauge doing exactly what it should :-)