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https://www.killboy.com/ is the "original" and most well known one but there's a few companies doing it now. Thanks for buying photos from any of them, several friends work for those guys. Car looks great.
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More like, "cardan shafted" e. I'm still not entirely clear if the previous owner of my cayenne upgraded the cardan shaft bearing when they had it replaced a few years back, so I should probably put together a kit for an impromptu Jimi Fix. Safety Dance fucked around with this message at 17:59 on Jul 20, 2023 |
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What are the odds? Just did the center link this morning, using the JXB kit. It took less than an hour, and most of that was spent shaving rubber off of the driveshaft. Use brand-new razor blades in a decent scraper. You do not need to free the rear wheels, the center-link is on its own bearing. Kit comes with a bracket. You can use your old one.  Rubber removal was fairly straightforward, as most had already left the building. https://i.imgur.com/GN1ojMH.mp4 Pretty sure this was the factory original, with 164K on it. Cutter got it off in under a minute  shaving it down took about ten minutes https://i.imgur.com/TG37QD4.mp4 Bolted straight up. Very well-made, very tight machining tolerances.  and fin.  Had the bearing been bad, I would have tried to return the kit (which was $350) and bought a reman driveshaft assembly (~$500 shipped). I thought I'd have to remove the dual exhaust system. As it turns out, the V6 has a single exhaust, & replacing the cardan unit would have been pretty simple (if I could free the connection to the rear diff, that is). PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jul 21, 2023 |
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Yep, I used the same JXB kit with the tunnel brace. Once i got things started I just kept pulling on the leftover ridge of rubber with the kinfe up to the bearing and it all came off in a single shot except for a small section. Real easy to install. The only thing that held me up was two of the 16MM bolts holding up the factor tunnel brace were stuck enough that I had to crawl back out to turn on the compressor and find the rattle gun and a 6 point 1/2" socket. The kit is really nicely made, but expensive for what it is. It's not priced for what it costs to produce, it's priced just lower than the next cheapest alternative.
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Motronic posted:The kit is really nicely made, but expensive for what it is. It's not priced for what it costs to produce, it's priced just lower than the next cheapest alternative. Yep. Another bill & a half & I'd have the whole driveshaft assembly. I used the rattlegun straightaway. Not loving with those bolts. So of course, they all came straight out no problem. Which leads me to believe that if you just set-up the impact wrench & lay it near the workpiece, it'll cooperate out of fear. Mostly.
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My car got hot by some rockfall today, a bunch of rocks came sliding down the hillside and a big one bounced up and whacked the front. I have paint protection film which looks to have taken the brunt of the hit but I think it's a little bit dented. Sucks but I suppose it's expected in the mountains.  
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Man, I thought BMW paint had orange peel... That sucks. Hopefully the paint was protected by the film+dirt layers, and a PDR guy can fix any minor dings.
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When I got up to top up the coolant in my 986 this morning I stuck a flashlight in the expansion tank and it looks like my current coolant is yellow or green and NOT the special pink! I don't have a way to figure out what's in there. I'm guessing I just need to flush it and replace it? edit ^^^ oh no! good luck 
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Was talking to a friend last weekend about his Porsche collection and he remarked that his early build date 996 was his favorite. I had no idea the super early cars had differences but apparently it's quite a list. https://rennlist.com/forums/996-forum/1270550-what-makes-the-1999-so-special-anyway.html tl:dr quote:I. General MY1999 Uniquenesses overall:
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Yeah, all of that was too expensive to continue when Porsche determined that this was going to be the cost cutting generation of 911s. It's why so many of them have lovely falling apart interiors full of rattles, squeaks and sticky buttons. Which is baffling, because the 955/957 Cayenne interiors are essentially the same, but much better quality because they don't have any of those issues.
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Me with an 01/98 build C2, “that’s right”. Also my Porsche specialist didn’t find any significant plastic in the filter and my cam deviations are still 0 and -3, so I’m in the clear! willroc7 fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Aug 8, 2023 |
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I am awaiting delivery of a wheel hub bearing for the right rear on my 986. After ~900 mile road trip the whoomp whoomp whoomp was quite loud. This will be my first major mechanical work on the boxster. I love this car. I do sometimes wonder if I'll get an itch to get a 996 at some point.
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Elite Taco posted:I do sometimes wonder if I'll get an itch to get a 996 at some point. You might, but you should drive one first. Your boxster is way more fun in a "this is a skateboard" kinda way. I really really enjoy the few times a year I borrow my buddy's 986. While a 911 platform is way different, I'd want a 997 to replace a 986. That would at least be a real upgrade. Good job taking on the bearing replacement.
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Thanks. We'll see how it goes. I figure if I get the hub off and can't get the bearing out I am still in the money and can just take everything to a shop for a press. poo poo like this is what has me wondering about a 996 911 lol: "I have a 2003 Dark Teal Metallic C2 Manual with 48k on the clock and 2k on an LN 4.0 rebuild." Apex car in some ways.
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Motronic posted:You might, but you should drive one first. Your boxster is way more fun in a "this is a skateboard" kinda way. I really really enjoy the few times a year I borrow my buddy's 986. While a 911 platform is way different, I'd want a 997 to replace a 986. That would at least be a real upgrade. 2nd this. I have a 986 Boxster S and was considering selling it and getting a 996. A friend bought one and we swapped for the weekend and I was surprised by how much I missed the Boxster's snappy feel. Even the wife was, "this feels weird" going from one to the other.
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If I didn’t need the back seats I’d have a boxster or a cayman for sure.
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I don’t need backseats and now the CEL light has come back on, thinking about a stick shift cayman
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Have Boxster, can confirm it's huge fun.
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Aquila posted:Have Boxster, can confirm it's huge fun. Smiles per mile ratio is extremely high in the Boxstet
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You'll need a breaker bar for this job. I've nearly got the hub out of the car. For some reason the ball joint on the bottom of the hub doesn't want to come out and give me clearance. Haven't gotten to the point where I'm working to get driveshaft out of the hub. I bought this tool set - so hopefully I can do the pressing myself: https://www.ebay.com/itm/175476945906
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AWWNAW posted:I don’t need backseats and now the CEL light has come back on, thinking about a stick shift cayman Mines (987.1 CS) sitting a bit under 104k miles, did 200 miles in the mountains this morning and didn't miss a beat. Need to find some pads that don't fade as bad but the car is honestly great to drive. I keep thinking about replacing it with an Elise but it's been so good I'm not sure. I would also consider a Boxster, if I had realized Wife would get claustrophobic in the Cayman I would have gone that route.
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Elite Taco posted:You'll need a breaker bar for this job. I have the Harbor Freight version, works fine, especially if you have a big fuckoff bench-mounted vise to fix your workpiece. Even with a vise, you'll be rowing like a galley slave, so wear padded gloves if you ain't already. I have one of my son's '01 Accord hubs set up to the right.  VVV that little ball-joint separator tool is THE poo poo. VVV PainterofCrap fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Aug 13, 2023 |
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Hell yeah. I think that tomorrow I'm gonna just go ham getting the lower ball joint out and if I learn a lesson and need to buy some replacement suspension parts, so be it. I can use the impact wrench to run the press  Here's where I ended up today:  
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Forget that lovely ball joint separator. You need to put the bolt back on loosely and whack the poo poo out of the side of the knuckle where that ball joint taper goes in with a 5 lb sledge. You really need to make it ring like a bell. The ball joint will fall right out.
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Thanks for the encouragement. I'm gonna get in there with a hammer this evening and do my best to get the upright out of the car. If that doesn't work, I'll put the ooga dooga on the rest of the suspension parts and just keep removing bolts till it's out. Helpfully, the e91's a/c compressor died on Friday afternoon, so I need the dang 986 on the road and out of the garage ASAP. I plan to drop it off for an alignment once I get it back together, then I can do a tech inspection for my 9/25 HPDE weekend at Hallet.
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Hammer + violence got it down. Need advice on this part: 
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I haven't done one of those specifically, but it looks like the rest of your unit bearing is still in the hub. I start nice with inside/blind pullers if you have the kind of thing, but quickly escalate to a gas axe.
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Yeah, I got the bearing out of the upright - the ebay kit I bought did the job just fine. New bearing is in. Just need this part off and I can start reassembly.
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Oh I just looked it up, that's not a unit bearing, you just need to get the rest of that bearing off the hub. I'd use a cutting torch and nip it off piece by piece as to not damage the hub. You can do something similar with an angle grinder and cutoff wheel which is something you're probably more likely to have. Even a dremel and a lot of cutoff wheels would work, but it would take forever. If you don't have any of that/don't have the time maybe you have a machine shop or welding shop nearby? This is a total bring it by with $20 in cash kind of thing if you have the right kind of shop. E: I figured there was a tool for this, and there still may be, but pelican parts has this idea:  So a 2 jaw puller, a 3 would work if that's what you got and "something" that fits inside of the bearing and on the hub. I bet something in a bearing and seal driver set - including the harbor freight ones - would fit that bill. This kind of thing: 
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Yisss. Nice job.
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NitroSpazzz posted:Mines (987.1 CS) sitting a bit under 104k miles, did 200 miles in the mountains this morning and didn't miss a beat. Need to find some pads that don't fade as bad but the car is honestly great to drive. I keep thinking about replacing it with an Elise but it's been so good I'm not sure. I would also consider a Boxster, if I had realized Wife would get claustrophobic in the Cayman I would have gone that route. Carbotech is the only one that made a lower temp ceramic for both front and rear of a 981, which used the 987 rear and a 991 front. I didn't wanna mix brands and cause weird bias or something. No doubt they make a 987 front too.
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Got it all buttoned back up, but the parking brake is rubbing for some reason. The tensioner sprocket is all the way in the "loose" position.
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