Hi chaps, thought I'd document some of the work I've been doing on the car over the last couple of weeks.
Seeing as everyone's doing stuff to there 964s I didn't want to be left out!
I decided a 24,000 mile service was in order so ordered the items i thought i would need over the last couple of months.
First I removed the exhaust, heat shielding and cam covers.
The tin wear was in a bit of a state!
I gave it all a good clean and going over with a wire brush, a coat of primer and a couple of coats of gloss black it was starting to look a lot better.
The large pice of tin wear from the rear of the engine was really badly rotten towards the heat shield area so I grinded the worst of and painted it same as above.
Next I decided to strip the cam covers using paint stripper, I can't tell you how much of a pain this was, seemed to take forever but I got there in the end.
I gave them a coat of metallic black heat resistant paint.
Ok I admit I didn't paint the bottom covers, it took me hours to do the upper ones by hand so decided not to wast time doing the lower ones, if I had the funds to have them blasted I would have done all of them, but as they can't be seen there was no point.
Goodies from OPEC Newcastle and euro car parts.
Next I set all the valves using the valve setting tool.
Next new bosch plugs, although the old ones looked in good shape!
The new.
Covers torqued down.
I fitted new HT lead clips at this stage as all the old ones were knackered.
Next I saw the chain housing covers were leaking from both bottom corners so off these came and new gaskets and bolt rubbers fitted.
Pic of leak.
Cover removed.
Fixed!(hopefully)
Other cover was leaking from exactly the same place.
Now things start to get out of control, I thought seeing as the car was jacked up and the tray was off I might as well change the oil in the final drive (diff) this was very easy, I'm glad I did it as there was nothing in my service history to say when this was last done?
Then I noticed there were two snapped studs in the manifold, I decided to remove the full manifold and try and remove the Brocken studs.
One of the snapped studs.
Getting thes bloody nuts off was a total hassle, I had to soak the nuts for two days befor I began trying to get them off, it would have been a lot easier if I could have gotten better access.
Hooray!!
I'm glad I removed this as I found a massive leak coming from the pipe that comes from the oil filter to the engine. The fitting that the pipe fixes onto at the engine was only finger tight and leaking!
I will be tightening this fitting tomorrow.
Ok now I need some advice, I tightened two nuts onto the snapped stud and locked them together with the view of winding the stud out of the head.
I've tapped it with a hammer and punch to loose it a bit but I've tried tonight to wind it out and I'm scared its going to snap off flush with the engine. I haven't been able to move it yet, anyone got any tips? I'm not sure if I can use heat as the stud goes in to aluminium?
I will be having another go in the morning at the little ***** but any tips would be appreciated.
Seeing as everyone's doing stuff to there 964s I didn't want to be left out!
I decided a 24,000 mile service was in order so ordered the items i thought i would need over the last couple of months.
First I removed the exhaust, heat shielding and cam covers.
The tin wear was in a bit of a state!
I gave it all a good clean and going over with a wire brush, a coat of primer and a couple of coats of gloss black it was starting to look a lot better.
The large pice of tin wear from the rear of the engine was really badly rotten towards the heat shield area so I grinded the worst of and painted it same as above.
Next I decided to strip the cam covers using paint stripper, I can't tell you how much of a pain this was, seemed to take forever but I got there in the end.
I gave them a coat of metallic black heat resistant paint.
Ok I admit I didn't paint the bottom covers, it took me hours to do the upper ones by hand so decided not to wast time doing the lower ones, if I had the funds to have them blasted I would have done all of them, but as they can't be seen there was no point.
Goodies from OPEC Newcastle and euro car parts.
Next I set all the valves using the valve setting tool.
Next new bosch plugs, although the old ones looked in good shape!
The new.
Covers torqued down.
I fitted new HT lead clips at this stage as all the old ones were knackered.
Next I saw the chain housing covers were leaking from both bottom corners so off these came and new gaskets and bolt rubbers fitted.
Pic of leak.
Cover removed.
Fixed!(hopefully)
Other cover was leaking from exactly the same place.
Now things start to get out of control, I thought seeing as the car was jacked up and the tray was off I might as well change the oil in the final drive (diff) this was very easy, I'm glad I did it as there was nothing in my service history to say when this was last done?
Then I noticed there were two snapped studs in the manifold, I decided to remove the full manifold and try and remove the Brocken studs.
One of the snapped studs.
Getting thes bloody nuts off was a total hassle, I had to soak the nuts for two days befor I began trying to get them off, it would have been a lot easier if I could have gotten better access.
Hooray!!
I'm glad I removed this as I found a massive leak coming from the pipe that comes from the oil filter to the engine. The fitting that the pipe fixes onto at the engine was only finger tight and leaking!
I will be tightening this fitting tomorrow.
Ok now I need some advice, I tightened two nuts onto the snapped stud and locked them together with the view of winding the stud out of the head.
I've tapped it with a hammer and punch to loose it a bit but I've tried tonight to wind it out and I'm scared its going to snap off flush with the engine. I haven't been able to move it yet, anyone got any tips? I'm not sure if I can use heat as the stud goes in to aluminium?
I will be having another go in the morning at the little ***** but any tips would be appreciated.