Really, do ya?
Bumper stays were shot on my 993. Basically the only thing holding the bumper on was four screws. :Surprised: So whilst in there, may as well change rusted and knackered other bits of the exhaust system whilst the bumpers off.
Oh what fun it is, browsing the PET catalogue coffee in hand, pencil and paper jotting down part numbers.
Then there's the call to your local OPC and scouring Eurocarparts etc etc.
I ended up replacing the following:
Bumper Stays, CAT headshield, small heatshield in front of CAT,Silencer straps, every single clamp from the heat exchangers back, also the CAT straps plus every nut, bolt and washer to go with the lot of it.
Total cost of parts £1K. :what:
Plus around 30 hours of labour.
Thankfully the main heat shield that's hidden behind the bumper had only a tiny amount of rust and that was only around the lower btm edge fixing points where it was bolted to the car. So in this instance larger washers were used as it was 99% complete and in good order.
The nearside heat shield above and in front of the silencer was repairable as it was only its leading front edge that was rotton. (Repaired by cutting up the good metal left off the original CAT shield, the offside one was fine.
There was no rust in the chassis legs at all, (we removed the the silencer heatshield to have a poke about), other than surface rust on the outer seams as seen in the pictures. Behind the removalable bumper impact stops, the chassis legs were like new inside, but we waxyoiled them anyway and sealed back up.
Sorry I seem not able to add more photos, and the ones that have uploaded arn't in sequence. :nooo:
Bumper stays were shot on my 993. Basically the only thing holding the bumper on was four screws. :Surprised: So whilst in there, may as well change rusted and knackered other bits of the exhaust system whilst the bumpers off.
Oh what fun it is, browsing the PET catalogue coffee in hand, pencil and paper jotting down part numbers.
Then there's the call to your local OPC and scouring Eurocarparts etc etc.
I ended up replacing the following:
Bumper Stays, CAT headshield, small heatshield in front of CAT,Silencer straps, every single clamp from the heat exchangers back, also the CAT straps plus every nut, bolt and washer to go with the lot of it.
Total cost of parts £1K. :what:
Plus around 30 hours of labour.
Thankfully the main heat shield that's hidden behind the bumper had only a tiny amount of rust and that was only around the lower btm edge fixing points where it was bolted to the car. So in this instance larger washers were used as it was 99% complete and in good order.
The nearside heat shield above and in front of the silencer was repairable as it was only its leading front edge that was rotton. (Repaired by cutting up the good metal left off the original CAT shield, the offside one was fine.
There was no rust in the chassis legs at all, (we removed the the silencer heatshield to have a poke about), other than surface rust on the outer seams as seen in the pictures. Behind the removalable bumper impact stops, the chassis legs were like new inside, but we waxyoiled them anyway and sealed back up.
Sorry I seem not able to add more photos, and the ones that have uploaded arn't in sequence. :nooo:
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