I'll bring Pirtle's guide...

 

Where can I find "Dwayne's Garage Pictorial"? Thanks all.

 

This is it- very detailed.

http://dwaynesgarage.norcal928.org/1...0Procedure.htm

 

If im in town, Im in.

I would get an eyeball on the gears before starting..or you could be down for a week waiting for gears instead of a quick long one day job.

No guarantee your gears are coatable.

 

I just did this job a couple of months ago. Use Dwayne's pictorial/and write up. Change everything, it isn't that much more money. If you do change your timing gears, remove the adjusting bolts, and mark the spiders behind the gear slots with a magic marker, a sharp one. Then you'll be almost dead nuts when you replace them with new gears. Buy Porkens 32Valve timing tool, it's a must!

Take your time and it ain't that hard. I do have a lift, and it makes the job a breeze.

BTW, my radiator was junk, so I had to R & R it. I would remove it anyway, gives ya a lot more room to work, when the fans, and rad are out of the way. Good time to clean out all the crap that gets stuck between the rad, and A/C evap.
GOOD LUCK!

 

Thanks all. Really appreciate the info & support.

Going to pull the gears this weekend to see which can be re-used and which need to be recoated/replaced, so that everything is ready for the weekend of the 23rd. If anyone has a flywheel lock I could borrow for a week, please PM me and I'll drive out to you for pickup.

After reading all the pros & cons, I'm going to order the PorKenSioner as well. Like with new prescription drugs, you don't want to be the first user in case there are side-effects, but it seems like there have been hundreds of installs at this point with very few (if any) problems.

dfrhodes, Mike LaBranche, kevinlieb, Speedtoys: By chance, do any of you have PorKen's cam timing tool?

 

Don't have a PorKen tool, do have the flywheel lock, I can meet ya somewhere in between here and there.

 

Please send along dates and times and a location over PM when you know when / where this is going to happen.

 

Dude, I'm in San Jose, but I go to school at Stanford, so I can bring my lock tool and you can pick it up from me if you want. Just let me know. PM sent with my email

 

Any dates?

I'm now headed back to the UK and Sweden again, bout the 26th to the 14th, or maybe 17th...which would be JUST enough time to get on another plane for Third Coast.

 

David, I didn't know you could recoat the cams! I recently replaced the cams, oil pump and crank gears on my GTS because they were worn. What's the name of the shop in Belmont?

 

You can recoat gears that are not overly eroded...that's the other issue at work here. Once the coating goes, the aluminum starts to go, too. You can't replace that.

 

Foz:

Sorry I didn't reply to your email about this. Normally I'm up for any timing belt party. We've had many of them over the years. But, for the time being I am literally up to my ears with other things I need to do. In fact, my car is overdue for a timing belt, approaching 63K miles since last changed. It'll have to wait.

Dwayne's guide is remarkable, with one caveat. Dwayne is so skilled he managed to not make any mistakes or run into any roadblocks. I, on the other hand, have made just about every mistake that it's possible to make and a few that are considered impossible. So, take a look at my supplement to Dwayne's otherwise astonishing work and have at it.

http://www.billsworkshop.com/P928S4/...rces-noWSM.pdf

 

Still on for Saturday the 23rd. PM sent to all of you with the details.

Bill: No worries - It would have been nice to have the TB master around, but you are still welcome to stop by for beer if you're in the area! Thanks for the link to your notes - They are very helpful.

 

Now might be a good time to start working on getting Jeff, aka Speedtoys, to bring some of his mighty fine slow roasted mac and cheese...