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baggabones - I'm glad someone out there is enjoying the sporadic updates. As for the air filter it was dark when I took it out but I didn't spot any obvious branding on it. It's in a box downstairs so I will have another look. Does this type of filter need any maintenance such as cleaning or re-oiling? It was looking a bit grubby but not excessively clogged up or anything. I guess I should put it back on if its a better part than the cheap replacement I bought! -Steve- Yeah a clean and re oil and good to go, K n N do a recharge kit with cleaner and oil that will do the job nicely....about a tenner on ebay  |
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stevek
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Apr 27, 2015 19:46:27 GMT
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Firstly, before a proper update, an orange wheel saga report. The adapters have been drilled out by a machine shop. They were left with rough sharp burrs as I was paying by time taken so I didn't bother getting them dressed back. Back at home I clamped them up and did that myself with a file... 
Even the machine shop managed to get a couple quite far off center which seems a bit shoddy. I had some spares so there is a full set of good ones...  Test fitted in a wheel...  The new longer wheel bolts have been ordered. I suppose I ought to start sorting some tires out. -Steve- |
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craig1010cc
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Apr 27, 2015 19:53:50 GMT
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It'll be worth it Steve once they are finally bolted up properly  |
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stevek
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Apr 27, 2015 20:52:20 GMT
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19th April - I decided to replace the badly dented mirrorless door with a less dented door with wing mirror mounts. I liked the smooth look of the mirrorless door but I think a mirror could be useful for on track. I think it's actually a 944 door because its slightly different, I didn't realise that though when I bought it sometime ago. Hey ho. So presumably its just a case of one off, one on right? Except these always one blasted* stuck bolt. The Allen head rounded out despite having blow torched it to a crisp. And trying to drive it round with a chisel didn't work either... (*other words may have been used)  So I had to drag the welder out into the garden for the last resort...  Which worked...  ... but I only have 3 hinge bolts now. Weight saving? So the very bent door with the broken handle was off...  And the less dented door just needed to fill the gap...  Swapping the lock over to the new handle was pretty painless...  Joining the latch rods to the levers inside the door was very painful and extremely frustrating. Got it together in the end and boshed the mirror on too.. 
It might be the wrong (944) door but it looks pretty good from a distance, has a mirror and can be opened from the outside. Colour match might be a bit off though  -Steve-
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stevek
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Apr 27, 2015 21:28:20 GMT
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22nd April - First up a new alternator belt because its embarrassing when you car squeals like a dog whenever it rains...  I just loosened the alternator tension and got the belt on the bottom pulley as far as I could and flicked it on the rest of the way with the starter motor. I've never done it that way before but it worked so easily...  Next up was the cam belt tensioner. It has been squeeking and grumbling a bit and the cam belt was overhanging the front edge of the cam pulley...  The newer design pulley doesn't have the hex head for tensioning so it's a bit thinner, the old bolt had plenty of thread so I just cut it down to suite using the old one as an edge to cut against...  Without the proper VAG 2 pin tensioning tool I had to improvise some leverage...  ... oh and that bit of wire twisted round the cam belt was to hold some tension in the belt while the tensioner was taken off so I didn't loose the timing. (Non-interference engine so not as critical) That all worked out OK and the belt runs properly on the cam pulley now...  -Steve-
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stevek
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Jul 13, 2015 23:56:54 GMT
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Around this point I got a bit tied up with 'house' things as I bought out my friends 50% stake in 'our' house to make it mine. I state this as the excuse but I think I just lost a bit of interest in car stuff in general so was lacking in motivation to work on the car. Despite this some little things did happen... April 29th - Took the 924 along to the monthly Motornutz meet in Rotherham...   May 1st - I picked up a Momo boss on eBay for a good price which meant I could fit the racier steering wheel my brother gave me from his BMW e30. It might seem a bit odd taking the leather Porsche wheel off to fit a cheap aftermarket one but it kind of suits the way of this project better I think...  June 2nd - Cleaned and re-oiled the 'performance' air filter and stuck that back in. It sounds a bit throatier but that's about all I could tell...  June 5th - Tried to take some 'arty' pictures on my phone...   July 4th - I eventually got some tyres fitted on the 205 wheels...  Well it would be rude not to...  July 10th - Is a 924 a practical estate car? err No, but still useful enough for lawnmowers and strimmers...  July 11th - And handy enough for camping gear too, except for loosing a caliper carrier bolt somewhere on the way... 
Luckily I remembered the clatter noise of that 'stone' I ran over 4 miles earlier. I got a lift back to that section of country road (just outside of Ripon) and was able retrieve it back again! -Steve- |
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brc76
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Jul 14, 2015 10:41:07 GMT
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Liking this and your efforts to colour match all the things
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craig1010cc
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Jul 15, 2015 13:30:47 GMT
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loving the wheels on the car |
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duncanmartin
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Jul 15, 2015 19:22:19 GMT
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Looking cool. I like the orange wheels... Cheers Duncan |
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Aug 30, 2015 15:31:25 GMT
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Hi,
This is my first post in this forum..
I have decided to buy myself a porsche 924 as a project car and had a quick google search to see if I could find my old car from the late 1990s... It typed in "silver porsche 924" and spotted my car, still fitted with the wheels I purchased back then....
I have very fond memories of this car hence looking for a 924 to play with now...
I am glad to see it's still on the road and someone is spending some time on it...
Seeing some of the work you are doing, here are a list of thing I did to it when I owned it back then..
Rear exhaust box, rear drum brake rebuild, my wife stitched the steering wheel leather up- it looks like it held up well, had an alarm/immobiliser fitted and apart from that I just drove it... I had to sell it shortly after my son was born in 1999 ish, we couldn't get the pushchair in it...
I always wondered what happened to this car, now I know... Good luck with the project..
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stevek
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Sept 2, 2015 16:18:07 GMT
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Hi lethallegend and welcome to the forum. It's really cool to hear from you, what are the chances! I just hope you don't mind what I have done with your old car. It really was touch and go whether this car would ever see the road again only a couple of years ago, but its hanging on in there in its new guise. If you are looking to buy a 924 it may be worth joining the 924 Owners Club. porsche924.co.uk It's a nice active forum and a wealth of knowledge on the 924. Prices for the 924 are steadily on the rise and have been for a while but they still seem like good value. I do like the 16" Team Dynamics wheels that were on it but the tires were cracking and I didn't like the cosmic spacers on the rear so I ended up changing to the Peugeot wheels. I have just rebuilt the rear drums again, which may well be the first time they have been done since you did them all those years ago! If you have any old pictures it would be great to see them. -Steve- |
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Sept 2, 2015 21:24:48 GMT
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Looks good on the new rims!
Are those 195/55/R15 by any chance?
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'03 Porsche 996 C2 3.6 - Sort of Retro
'84 Porsche 924 - Definitely Retro!
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stevek
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Sept 3, 2015 19:43:48 GMT
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stevecrx - Yes 195/55/R15. I think they look about right on the pug wheels, I'm glad you like them. I think it would look even better with it lowered a bit too, maybe 2" at the front and 1" rear.
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stevek
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Sept 5, 2015 13:43:59 GMT
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WOW they are ace.
It really was a smart looking motor back then. It must have gone through a few less caring owners between 1999 and 2008 when I got it. Shame really.
Its interesting to spot the little changes..
Number plates had changed to 3D effect letters.
The hatch trim is chrome instead of black (which I always though looked a bit odd as there is no other chrome on the car).
Clear side repeaters.
The Pasha checked interior had gone unfortunately.
Black to Chrome windscreen wiper arms.
Thanks for scanning those in.
-Steve-
Ps. Just noticed its got a 309 keeping it company in the first picture, just like today.
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stevek
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Oct 17, 2015 13:27:09 GMT
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15th August - The fitting of the new wheels, or rather the removal of the shoddy Cosmic spacers had caused me another problem which I'll get to in a moment. But first for those that don't know these are Cosmic spacers (32mm) with their special extension nuts...  They are a particularly nasty form of spacer, as I will explain. Start with a regular Disc/drum/hub wherever the normal wheel bolts would go but use the special extension bolts instead. Now torque them up to the desired bolt torque...  Next simply slot the aluminium spacer over the top... Oh Wait it won't fit! It wont fit because the flats of the bolts need to be aligned to the spacer...  Remove the spacer and now you are faced with a choice; either over tighten the miss aligned ones to line them up or slacken them off if you can't force them far enough round. Now the spacer will fit like so...  Perfect! Now you can use your regular wheel bolts to fit your wheel as normal. Now I guess the torquing up of the actual wheel bolts sandwiches the spacer under the wheel bolt force so it should be secure but it doesn't seem right to me. That's why I wanted them off the car and one reason for the wheel change. Anyway back to the problem, one of the threads had ended up stripped on both of the rear drums on the Porsche. Only 3 bolts were holding each rear wheel on, not ideal. Was this the Cosmic's fault or whoever had butchered the extension bolts to shorten them? Actually it was probably my fault for not binning them earlier. So to fix that I bought shiny things...  and fitted them to the car...  
Nice! 21st August - The real motivation for that last flutter of activity was to make it to RRG15...  On the Friday and Saturday much beer was drunk, New friends were made and EVERYONE talked about cars Sunday is show day, one queue it was cool to be stuck in...   Although I was somewhat outclassed on the Porsche 924 Owners Club Stand (Not that I minded one bit)...  
The weather certainly dampened things but it was still ace. 17th October - The Shonky was in for an MOT test this morning, always a slightly nervous event. But it passed OK. In the words of the tester 'its better than it looks!'.  -Steve- PS. The recent MOT stated the measured axle weights. Front 560Kg, Rear 536Kg, so 1096Kg Total. I don't know how much fuel was in it, but I think it was more than 1/2 a tank.
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stevek
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This isn't really a proper update today, more just thinking aloud. I have picked up a pair of these though they weren't so cheap...  Because a track car shouldn't have electric windows! Not sure when I'll fit them yet. I am also trying to come up with a solution for a blower fan. I disassembled the faulty seized one and partly freed it off but one bearing is stuck. It will run when attached to a battery but the whole bearing is spinning in the motor frame so its struggling and getting hot. Don't think its repairable and secondhand ones of this type don't seem to be available for reasonable money. Quad/ATV little radiator fans seem to be about the same size so I was wondering if one of those might work with some adaptation. The main thing I'm trying to sort out at the moment is the shake on the steering when doing over 60mph. I took the steering shaft with the UJ's on it out today because they are common failure point...  ... but it feels OK so I don't think the UJ's are causing it. I think the splined joint where it joins the shaft may have worn (though they look OK visually), the pinch bolt was as tight as I dared but maybe still not tight enough. More investigation needed. -Steve- |
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Nov 28, 2015 20:02:46 GMT
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Just out of interest, what happened to the old wheels? I've just purchased a project car for myself and would definitely consider having the same wheels again.
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stevek
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Dec 10, 2015 22:07:06 GMT
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lethallegend - Old wheels are just in the garage, safe to say they look a bit worn after 15+ yrs on the road. I would pass them on if your really after them but they would need refurbishing to look good again, the tyres are scrap (perished sidewalls) which was one reason for changing them. Get your new project up in a thread, I'm sure people would like to see.
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stevek
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Dec 10, 2015 22:46:34 GMT
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There has been progress on both the heater fan and the steering shake but old Shonky keeps fighting me. I have been getting lots of help over on the porsche924.co.uk forum but I'll put a shortened update here... I examined the steering shaft...  Black arrow - Tight joint quite a bit of friction but not crunchy and no major play. Green arrow - Freely moving joint, Smooth no major play. Yellow arrow - Quite splayed open but splines look undamaged. This is where I felt the play on the car. The joints have the same traits on both ends. I can barely feel any play if any in the UJ's off the car. I might be wrong but I think the pinch bolt is not closing this up enough so there is some slack where the splines are not tight together. It seems a bit pointless getting the UJ's replaced if they are OK so this is going back on for now. It was suggested I check the steering column bearing where it goes through the bulkhead, it was pretty loose. The bearing is a standard type so is cheap but it requires the steering column taking off to get to it. This is bolted on with security bolts so they are a bit difficult to remove (circled in yellow)...  Removing them 'simply' involved driving a punch into the head and smacking the hell out of them...   After which removing the column is quite simple.  That allowed me to get in the footwell and lever out the crusty looking bearing...  Although I was really careful the plastic sleeve didnt come out with the bearing and this bit broke off...  Anyway the new bearing was like £2 delivered from ebay...  So I pushed the new one in and carefully glued the 'dust' seal bit back on with epoxy...  So I boshed it all back together making sure to extra tighten those pinch bolts on the steering shaft...  Then time for a test drive. Its improved the violence of the shake no end, it doesn't rattle (like its loose) and clatter any more and the slack in the steering wheel has all but gone. It is still vibrating in the same way though  . It now feels like you are connected to the shake. Its more like I have felt in other cars with a wheel imbalance. More investigation needed. |
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. It now feels like you are connected to the shake. Its more like I have felt in other cars with a wheel imbalance. More investigation needed.