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been sick as a dog last few weeks...finally got to work today and pulled the engine/trans out of a friends car....pinning, cooling system refresh, clutch/flywheel, and misc 'fixes' tomorrow
@napoleon, almost looks like there is water mixed in
There wasn't. It was really hard to take a good picture of it. The amount of light really changed the way it looked. I had a bit of gray grease on the bottom of the drain plug, it looks like some was also dissolved in the oil.
The volume of fluid in the tranny was right, when I took the filler plug out first, there was a slow drip.
That grey grease is magnetic particles that have collected on the magnet in the plug. Somewhat normal other than it sounded like there was soo much that it partially covered the drain hole when you removed it. That part sound abnormal. How many miles on the car? Had the oil ever been changed? From what i have read the pinion bearing debris tends to look more like whiskers on the drain plug. The true test would be to pull the plug again in 5K miles and see what it looks like.
The drain plug hole was not covered. I of course had some magnetic particles, but there was a dot of grease on there too. It had clear lubricating properties and stuck to my finger like a thick grease does. In the 996 NA forum people talk about grease getting out of the pinion bearing. Its a different transmission I believe, but I wonder if mine is starting to do so. The amount of grease these people describe in case of an all out failure is much more than I had in mine. Somewhere there is a video of a guy sticking his finger in the drain hole and being able to scrape the grease out of the bottom of the transmission. I didn't see any in mine. It was just on the plug, and the oil appears to have some dissolved.
Car had 52k miles. Transmission oil as far as I could tell had never been changed. No serious trans issues with the car. No popout, and shift fine through the gears. Just speed shifting at 5-6k from 1st to 2nd felt a little unsmooth. So I decided to change the oil.
I need to do this. What was the level of effort to get the front bumper cover removed?
Like others have said, very straight forward. If you can do so, lifting the car and removing both front wheels and front wheel well linings makes it extremely simple since you gain easy access to the more concealed screws near the side markers.
The downside to doing this is discovering the list of parts needing replacement. In my case, it's the front center grilled that had been butchered by whoever installed a K40 radar detector at some point in the past (rest of K40 remains were discovered behind the bumper cover), and probably replacement front wheel well liners since mine both have various cracks on the bottom. Also a few missing fasteners from prior sloppy work. And finally, discovered my front lower lip is an aftermarket piece. Since it's still in decent shape, I'll hold off on getting a factory replacement for now.
I'm thinking when I take the front bumper cover off again to install the replacement center grille, I'll probably add some mesh behind the grilles to keep all of the leaves and larger debris from being picked up so easily. All-in-all, a good project and good way to learn more about my relatively new to me 996TT.
Like others have said, very straight forward. If you can do so, lifting the car and removing both front wheels and front wheel well linings makes it extremely simple since you gain easy access to the more concealed screws near the side markers.
The downside to doing this is discovering the list of parts needing replacement. In my case, it's the front center grilled that had been butchered by whoever installed a K40 radar detector at some point in the past (rest of K40 remains were discovered behind the bumper cover), and probably replacement front wheel well liners since mine both have various cracks on the bottom. Also a few missing fasteners from prior sloppy work. And finally, discovered my front lower lip is an aftermarket piece. Since it's still in decent shape, I'll hold off on getting a factory replacement for now.
I'm thinking when I take the front bumper cover off again to install the replacement center grille, I'll probably add some mesh behind the grilles to keep all of the leaves and larger debris from being picked up so easily. All-in-all, a good project and good way to learn more about my relatively new to me 996TT.
Indeed. I have on order a set of random fasteners as I go through this car, I find more than a few that need to be replaced.
The father-in-law has a lift so I might give that a go to make it easy.
Between rainstorms, I wanted to remove the rear wing. I didn't have the special tool, so I made one. I love making tools. 20 minutes - won't win a beauty contest, but turns ram shafts without scarring.
Getting my coolant lines pinned and my boy at the shop made my homemade bumperette delete clean and then relocated my HVAC to the radio location and relocated the window switches into new factory locations. Racecars need to be clean too...
01-22-2017, 04:38 PM
