I want to take the opportunity to thank the Rennlisters, who without knowing it, gave me the inspiration and knowledge to tackle my own clutch change. I would like to give a big thanks to Toga, nsully, JasonAndreas, and my good friend Roland 93 as well as many others who have contributed to my efforts. Several weeks back, I felt a little bit of clutch slip as I shifted gears at higher RPMs. I knew that this was the onset of the clutch going bad and I was not happy as I had my first DE of the season coming up. I left the 993 at home and used my Touareg instead which turned out to be a real hoot in the advanced group. Nice rain vehicle. After the event, I set out to remove my engine and transmission using Toga's engine removal thread to guide me along with nsully's transmission removal thread which filled in some blanks. My friend Roland 93 gave me the idea to build an engine cleat out of a chiseled 2x4 and plywood which in conjuction with an ATV jack worked like a charm lowering the engine out and wheeling it around the garage and driveway. And then there was JasonAndreas who always provided the torque specs along with some other info in most of these types of threads. So, after a week and a half of evening labor and $1900 in parts, I successfully dropped my engine and tranny, installed an RS LWF, 996 GT3 clutch disk, and new pressure plate along with some other goodies like an RS fan hub and reinstalled the engine and tranny. Best part, I had no left over parts.

Anyway, thanks Rennlist. Who needs to buy factory manuals with support like this. If anyone needs any other details to accomplish this task, feel free to ask. It's not really that hard of a process and other than a few triple square bits, didn't require any special tools.

Mike

 

Congrats!

 

+1

I admire most, that which I cannot do myself!

 

I am seriously considering doing this in the fall/winter to replace the lifters and do the clutch while I'm in there. I've never pulled an engine before, and while I figure I can do it w/ the jackstands, I am going to use it as an excuse to buy a lift ;-).

Great job and thank you for posting! Further encourages me to give it a shot.

 

Nice work sir!

Fun stuff, eh?

 

Awesome!!


Andreas

 

Congrats! You look very calm inside your engine bay, considering the point of no return was way back over the horizon.

BTW, the motor sure cleaned up nice. What did you use?

 

Outstanding! Good job.
chuck

 

Great job!

 

What a project! How long to pull the motor/trans out?

 

I think we all have to admire taking on a job like that. Congratulations!

 

Sweet, this give me some hope I'll be able to do the same some day. Nothing like getting everything back together and looking back at the accomplishment. Great job!

 

Congratulations and kudos!

But in reality I'm just buttering you up because I anticipate having to write guys like you at 2am when it comes time to swap my clutch....

dave

 

+2.

 

Good work indeed!

Looks as though you were down to the rivets, so it was time.

Gotta love the clean!