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I've got the car all buttoned back up, but the parking brake is catching on the brake rotor, even at the lowest setting on the star wheel adjuster. The brake lever has a ton of travel as well. I can't figure out why it's catching.
Looks like a good candidate to me. Are you going to have the case redone with Nickies?
I am headed that way.
I have 2 996's with the engines completely torn down to the cranks.
One is a 996 cab - my dad wants this car when it's done, the other is my C4 PTS coupe.
I was to "find" a good crankshaft Sunday by tearing down a 3rd engine I had bought a while ago that was "running but smoking." What do you think caused it's demise??? Steel sleeved 3.6- guess the seller didn't know it had been rebuilt. (I bought the engine from a scarp yard).
...My blocks are at the machine shop getting a deep cleaning- I can't clean them up as well as they do and it's cheaper for me to do it that way! I should get the parts back end of this week or next week, start measuring things and making expensive decisions.
I've got the car all buttoned back up, but the parking brake is catching on the brake rotor, even at the lowest setting on the star wheel adjuster. The brake lever has a ton of travel as well. I can't figure out why it's catching.
I'm so close to being done!!!
What does the "actuator" (bottom) side of the parking brake shoes look like? Can be tricky to get the "spreader" back together correctly.
I figured it out. I had a bolt loose on the brake shield it scored the rotor a bit. I will order the brake set from rennpart and just do a full changeover. I have a track day in late september anyway!
I freakin did it! (e91 for scale). The a/c went out in the wagon the day before I started on the 986, so I'm glad to have the 986 back on the road for the balance of the week before I tackle the a/c on the e91.
I have 2 996's with the engines completely torn down to the cranks.
One is a 996 cab - my dad wants this car when it's done, the other is my C4 PTS coupe.
I was to "find" a good crankshaft Sunday by tearing down a 3rd engine I had bought a while ago that was "running but smoking." What do you think caused it's demise??? Steel sleeved 3.6- guess the seller didn't know it had been rebuilt. (I bought the engine from a scarp yard).
Yikes... Scavenge pump looks like it's rotated 90 degrees. :/ I always assumed they couldn't even bolt in that way -- I thought it was only possible to get it wrong at 180 degrees.
That's my plan. There's an upholstery shop near my house that I've spoken to about the work. They seem excited to do it.
The main question is whether I spend the time to track down heated/ventilated 987 seats and have THOSE recovered. I love my heated seats now, but the Texas heat really warrants every possible cooling advantage. The hard part is finding that feature combo. I can do any color since I'm buying material for the recovering work anyway.
I love the way I talk myself into spending money on this car lol
There has been so many 996 scavenge pumps installed wrong that when Porsche designed the m97 heads/scavenge pumps, they slotted one bolt hole in the scavenge pumps and offset one threaded hole in the head so that the scavenge pumps " could not " be installed wrong on the 997's...NOTE !!! the new designed scavenge pump ( 997 part #)can still be installed/retrofitted on the m96 and still be installed wrongly on the m96, but cannot on the m97....
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Originally Posted by RennPart
I am headed that way.
I have 2 996's with the engines completely torn down to the cranks.
One is a 996 cab - my dad wants this car when it's done, the other is my C4 PTS coupe.
I was to "find" a good crankshaft Sunday by tearing down a 3rd engine I had bought a while ago that was "running but smoking." What do you think caused it's demise??? Steel sleeved 3.6- guess the seller didn't know it had been rebuilt. (I bought the engine from a scarp yard).
The Oil Pump is mounted wrong, isn´t it?
Last edited by Porschetech3; 08-17-2023 at 05:42 PM.
08-15-2023, 02:08 PM
it scored the rotor a bit. I will order the brake set from rennpart and just do a full changeover. I have a track day in late september anyway!
