WALTSTAR

Picture of the car.

James Bailey

Oh my ! someone stole your wheels !!

Mrmerlin

Holy shmoly.........they also stole your jackstands.


If that green wire is ziptied to the cross brace,
I would figure out a way to run it along the engine harness,
so it will be out of the hot air blast, the wire will last longer,
and with no zipties , they wont crush the insulation.

Please, Get some proper jackstands to support the car.
otherwise your life may be in danger

69gaugeman

Really? Those blocks are plenty stable.

Jack stands have been known to fail too. Best you never work on your car at all.

WALTSTAR

I see that I have to retain my sense of humor....... I actually lost it for a while dealing with the after effects of my wife's brain surgery, so forgive my occasional dryness.
I don't use jack stands as I have experienced a failure just after getting out from under my sisters Grand Prix ( the boat) in the past and have had steel ramps fold. Anything man made is bound to have imperfections. If buildings and ships are shored up on blocks, a car is not going to be a problem supported on 6x6 and 4x4 blocks.
As far as the green wire, I would rather it be up and away from the engine than bound to it where it would suffer radiant heat and the insulation would get baked to a crisp. The zip ties aren't that tight, by the way.

mark kibort

you will find it on the inside. easy to miss it if the belt is covering the sprocket shifted to the inside. take a broad flat screwdriver and lever the belt back so you can see the part that was shown on the picture earlier. again, its at 0 degrees and its on an odd number of rotations (TDC #1 cylinder on intake stroke)

yeah, dont use square belt.....not a good idea. I have a few good used belts if you want to put on on for free.

WALTSTAR

I appreciate the offers. I have all the parts I need except for a flywheel holding tool. I was thinking of rigging something through the clutch wear viewport. I will find the marks and get it done.

WALTSTAR

You know, I had a thought. What if I mark one belt tooth and The respective cam slot, did the same on the crank gear, transfer the marks to the new belt, and installed the new belt marks on the cam and crank marks? Done this way, it wouldn't matter where the cam or crank are. I did this on a Pontiac and it worked perfectly.

James Bailey

That assumes the timing was done right the last time.....not always a good assumption but yes the car would still run....More than one "professional" shop has done it with cheater marks just to avoid figuring it out...anything to save time for flat rate mechanics.

depami

That may work but you need to know that working on these cars is unlike anything on your list.

It's best to find the marks.

I'd be inclined to pull the #1 plug and find compression stroke then watch cam sprockets and harmonic balancer for marks as you approach TDC.

WALTSTAR

I think it's a safe assumption being that it's just as it left the factory in 1984. I've had it since 1997 and never even registered it. Once again, just looking to see what is thought about it because I will use "cheater" marks to supplement my finding and using the factory marks. That should be more than the standard, right? Having worked on this car slowly and recently much more intensely, I know they are unique and love the build quality and logic.

depami

So the car's an '84.

Supposedly non interference so make your marks, take off the belt, turn the cams to look for marks.

If found, use them. If not, use yours.

James Bailey

Highly unlikely to be the original belt....that would have been 13 years BEFORE you got it.... well beyond normal replacement intervals. The dealer would have been pimping it at 5-6 years max. Water pumps rarely last that long.

WALTSTAR

A lot of assumptions here. The car sat unused for years before I got it.
Who says that it ever went to the dealer for belt or pump change? I can't make that assumption and I am the owner. The car was driven for maybe 8 years since new and is very low mileage at less than 60,000

James Bailey

Given the very high cost of a new 928 and the lack of knowledge information about the car...they tended to go back to the dealer it was after all initially under warranty. Now after a couple very expensive service visits some people literally parked the cars as being too expensive to fix...Remember too that most dealers thought it was an interference motor just like the 944 and routinely scared the hell out of 928 owners about bending all the valves...but who knows the history of your car ?? The dealers also were selling water pump replacements for just minor seepage out the drain hole on the pump snout so Porsche issued a special tech bulletin that such repairs WERE not covered under warranty....