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A Few more pics from the first roady

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After this it was any excuse to get "him" out and about. The old Boxster is surprisingly practical with the regular boot and Frunk.

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Had to update the 22 year old headunit to something with bluetooth at a minimum. Matched colours is a bonus

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I bought some 'modern cars' as fun dailies but it has turned into either pay lots of money for shit service from 'bavarian specialists' to repair things or embark on deep research and full day adventures removing bits of car just to replace a headlight led, so i feel this

I overpaid on one for a chain replacement via said specialists and cheated on the other and got the dealer to do a mech warranty which is now also getting a chain replacement - definitely keener than i've been by pulling the box off

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And so begins the slow march to 911 ownership!

They're not horrifically difficult cars to work on, and there is a decent logic behind the way things are designed and assembled in these and pre-996 911s, as opposed to other high performance vehicles of similar vintage.

As you're no doubt discovering, there's a large amount of aftermarket suppliers too which helps. 

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Its been nothing too extreme in the scheme of things but I was definitely hesitant. Ha, not even close to being able to afford any 911 unfortunately, can dream. Was either a Boxster or a 924/944 and the convertible was easier to get over the line with the misses:grin:

 

I the proceeded to part ways with $3400 AUS for a new clutch, flywheel, IMS bearing and IMS removal / install tool. Thankfully Pelican Parts hah a proper "everything required" clutch kit with stuff like pressure plate bolts, flywheel bolts, RMS etc which made life significantly easier that it could have been.

While all the bits were being packed and shipped I thought I'd do some more maintenance but purchase parts locally to fill in the time. Regular stuff like oil and filter, and some slightly obscure stuff like replacing the Air Oil Separator which is like a factory catch can type of thing.

While dropping the oil I collected some and sent it off to be analysed, came back ok, recommended going to slightly thicker oil which was done.

I decided to whip the bottom of the sump off for a nosey while I was under there.

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These little bits were stuck to the oil pickup, slightly concerning....... I think the big white bits are from the chain tensioners, the metal?????who knows, was alloy from memory???

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Next issue was the Air Oil Separator which lives at the top of the drivers side bank at the top, it was an absolute ballache to replace without the box in the way, I can imagine doing it with the box in there. 

First step was to put the car into "service mode" this involves half opening the roof, un hooking the roof tension cables and removing the top engine cover through the clam shell opening. I had to do this anyway to remove the cabin engine cover to put everything at TCD etc.

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The AOS in its correct orientation

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From memory it has 4 connections, the big one from the drivers side head (white rag) 1 that goes though the block somewhere and 2connect to hoses I think.

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I also replaced both O2 sensors and relocated them slightly further down so the could read all 3 cylinders, previously they were in a bung slightly further up the header but only reading 1 cylinder. Did this help, I don't know but it seems a logical step.

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TBC...

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I'd relocate it back to where it was too tbh, they're pretty clear that the sensors shouldn't be lower than 10 degrees upwards from horizontal. 

That engine is bloody spotless inside, despite the pickup chunks. In the photo with the oil filter, what are the big steel cables either side of the wood block for?

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Might be something I have to look at then?? I don't remember seeing anything about the angle of them in the box they came in but it may well have been there!! I was surprised how tidy it was in there too.

The steel cables seem to be a "just in case" last resort to hold the engine in if the mounts fail or something. You can see they attach to the rear crossmember with 2 bolts in the pics of the flywheel etc etc

 

The parts arrived!!!!!! On the thursday Thursday, Misses was booked in for an Induction of labor on the Friday night so It wasnt looking good. I was hoping to get the IMS done and flywheel on at least...I had that done before she went in as I took the Friday off work. Couldnt spend all day on it as all sorts of family were here so had to deal with them.

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The IMS removal / Install Kit with my jerry-rigged flywheel strap and additional cam lock tool.

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Nest step was to "lock" the cams in place as to release tension off the IMS shaft i needed to remove the hydraulic chain tensioners. Another internet super scare is the cam timing jumping without locking the cams. The IMS kit cam with 2 camshaft locking tools, 1 for the 3 chain and 1 for the 5 chain engines. The difference being on the 3 chain both cams on each bank are driven off 1 chain with the 3rd going from crank to IMS, on the 5 chain only 1 cam is connected to the crank then the other cam is joined to the driven cam in a master/slave type arrangement. Some places said I only needed to lock 1 bank, others said both, so I made up a locking tool by copying the supplied one in the kit just to be safe. 

Unfortunately I only took this horrendous pic of the home made lock installed

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Next was rip the RMS out

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Now I was a numpty and didn't take any pics of the original IMS bearing in situ or the puller attached but as it turns out the original bearing was mint which was devastating :pukeright:.

This is essentially how it comes out though, threaded puller onto the ims threaded shaft, and wind the sucker out!

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You can see here on my recently removed bearing the little clip that holds it in place, you need to apply quote a bit of tension to overcome the clip holding it in which made a hell of a crack once it snapped out. Dam near shat myself!!!

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I took the Dust cover off to inspect, everything was absolutely perfect. What is believed to be the cause of the failures is the engine oil over time washes out the factory installed grease and due to the lack of oil supply to the bearing the balls eventually fail. Generally speaking cars with over 100k on the original are going to be fine (internet hearsay) and low mileage are more of a rick as lots of sitting / drying out of bearing etc

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No pics of installing the new bearing, essentially just gets smacked in. All installed. You can see its slightly off centre so I couldn't get the new cover on. Everyone's favourite unit Mr Andrew Baird came over and provided an additional hand to get the job done We ended up taking the 3rd cam tensioner off the front end of the engine which lives under the AC pump, was an absolute cunt to get back in. The new bearing is a Ceramic Ball type, apparently much better suited to this situation. It also comes with only 1 dust seal on the engine side to aid in oil draining. 

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Next step was battling with the new "spirolock" clip thing, what an absoloute fuckup of a design. Took WAY longer than it should have to get done.

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Retaining flange in

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Have 5 weeks off milking the last of the parental leave as my misses had a knee reco so went on sick leave with her work so  have a little bit of time each day to do car shit.

I had a list of things I wanted to do during my time off.

1) remove front bumper and clean out radiators / AC condensers of leaves as is supposed to be a big issue (it wasnt!)

2) Replace G box oil 

3) Replace spark plugs

4) Fuel filter

5) bolt check from the clutch change as have done about 1000km since.

 

The biggest pain in the ass is jacking it up, but we got there and promptly ripped the bumper off. 30 mins to have jacked up, 15 mins to get bumper off......

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According to the internet leaves and shit get in the radiator ducts and can cause the aluminum to rot away so regular cleaning is important. Turns out there were basically no leaves in wither rad duct. But its clean now..

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More to come when I get a minute!!

 

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