Show all posts by userPost any parts for sale, or... ... if you're looking for one. |
Go to this link and look at the third small picture. Guess what it shows in the middle of the bottom of the filter.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Ya know, I suspect there might be based on the advertising LN does for their spin on oil filter adapter. "The LN Engineering Spin-On Oil filter adapter also helps improve the longevity of your engine by providing full flow filtration by deleting the bypass, which means 100% of the oil gets filtered and whatever goes to the filter stays in the filter. This limits collateral damage from foreign objby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
being forced to drive a Turbo to work. Much sympathy.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
for long running Boxsters, we are all hoping for the best for you.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
and be glad for the new door membranes you had installed.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
as a look at the PET showed in illustration 401-05 part #3. I recall my son has a Mazda that had a bad sensor. Dealer wanted to replace the trans. Midas swapped the sensor for less than $100.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
then hose connections are the suspect. Things age as well as wear. Especially plastic and rubber. Now that you have the code understood, the code reader should be able to clear the code. If so, does it come back? I had one of these, and we (or rather my mechanic) never did figure out what it was caused by but by wiggling things around looking, we must have re-snugged a connection that had workby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
is that, if bearing fails and the blades impact the cavity, they scrape away the metal that forms the cavity making any subsequent pump less effective. And those metal scrapings are small and lodge in places that get very expensive if they even can get cleaned out. Some high volume P-car shops thus suggest actually using OEM pumps as their blades are going to fail before damaging the cavity and wby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
http://www.autocarindia.com/auto-news/2019-porsche-911-to-do-away-with-naturally-aspirated-engines-404107.aspxby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
disraeli posted this on www.ppbb.com "The factory technical manual (Section 97-07 page 2) has the following table of total electrical load after the car has been shut off (ModelYear 02): (electrical current is worst case, i.e. car loaded w/all options...) FROM TO mA 0 min 5 min up to approx. 950 6 min 15 min up to approx. 900 16 min 20 min up to approx. 750 21 min 60 min up to approx.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Replacing the mirror is a trivial fix as even I did it twice successfully. You can do it. The opportunity is to consider if you want to replace with the simple flat mirror or an aspherical one that allows you to cover your blind spot at the cost of some symmetry in the display. I went asph in both my Boxsters. A Porsche part. If you want flat, ask one of the guys that is parting out a car ratby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
QuoteMarcW Kind of like to own a V12 Curious why?by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Neither a P-car but both had no negative comments about the experience.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
QuoteBoxsterra Although Ed is correct that you can screw up the installation in those ways I think it is far fetched to believe that that was actually the cause of premature failure. It's human nature of people to vary their caution level based on the consequences of their mistakes. In this case unless the mechanic doesn't know what they're doing they would always torque the bolts. The LN tool wby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Assuming it was there before your ownership and before the LN bearing was installed, wasn't the grit going to be fatal to any bearing as it was to so many other parts? Is this really a good candidate to put more money in? Isn't it the heads that have areas and passages that trap bad stuff especially? Do they clean the block before putting in the nickies?by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Keep in mind the operating environment your bearing was in. Certainly not typical. It had to have lots is grit in the oil no matter how often you changed the oil. Now which failure came first, the bore scoring, the mains, the IMS. No way of proving that. Were you using a spin-on no-bypass filter? BTW, the source of the notion that you should measure the crank and the IMS holes in the block forby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
I once said splash and was corrected. And immersion at rest. LN's current thinking re the lubrication of ball bearing IMS bearings is at http://imsretrofit.com/direct-oil-feed/,by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
All are listed as associated with power windows on an '01by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
The carpet is thick with a pad underneath and putting the car away covered but with the carpet wet guarantees mold and smells once you take the tarp off. Take the seat out, the carpet out, and blow dry. You can do it. A link to some info on finding the leaks with diagrams, pictures and a write-up here.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
the changes seemed underwhelming. How many HP does it take to make a difference?by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
that "At least in my mind to justify buying/storing rims and tire for winter." approach cost me my first Boxster. And it wasn't snow. Just overnight freezing and a layer of black ice even at 36 degree air temp and the sun at an angle I didn't see it. Which was why for my second Boxster I had a 4WD with aggressive all-seasons and used it when there was any doubt.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
I can recall several snows in both MD and NOVA suburbs of 12 inches or more. One snow where the drifts covered our attached garage roof and that was probably 18 feet at the roof's peak. While I had the Boxster there, I recall several 8" snows that had to be scraped off the car cover. I had a 4WD CRV for those days. It can be icy too, that cost me one of my Alfas..eerie feeling to hear someoneby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
said 23k in Germany, 30k worldwide. Through encouraged attrition, retirement. Over several years. Can't fire anyone, the unions and the state own too much stock and have board seats.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
and it was an '01S TIP which should be worse. mix of 40 MPH 20 mile commute in all sorts of weather, 250 mile 70 MPH trips and whatever. But I should note I generally do EPA figures on any car I drive.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
I used to visit the WWII memorial and there would still be quite a few veterans of that war visiting and standing/sitting there looking at the columns with the names of their battles etched on them. Then I'd walk further down to the Vietnam memorial and always look for my college friend's name on the wall. My company and some volunteer friends provided the first computerized (286 era) way of fiby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
Prius owners just laughed as everyone else was panicking. (3 in my family) Horses for courses.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
who don't think that sound is the thing that makes a sports car and who don't wind the tach up to touch the red line very often will be the ones buying the car. Practical, well built, comfortable, track-able, infinitely customize-able from the factory (I'm always amazed at the number of PTO cars), smooth, responsive, safe, powerful, reasonably economical on fuel, available with an auto-trans foby mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
EU testing shows that smaller engines are not as smog friendly as larger ones. And some makers are having to abandon their current small engines in favor of larger ones. Picked up this reference on a cleancars.com web site. Story.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum
in anticipation of the rumored engine downsizing. And how many kids today has ever driven a stick shift? Neither of my ~40 year olds has. They view a car as an appliance, nothing aspirational about it. I'd imagine a car of Porsche's cost would be the last car they might be willing to learn on.by mikefocke, '01S Sanford, NC - Main Forum