Re: What did you do in/on/for your Porsche today?
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2023 3:58 pm
Continued to wake-up the 2 x 3.2 engines in my life, the Lola and the 3.2 engined 911T 1973.
Lola first, fresh 99 octane into the empty car, good churn over to get oil where I'd like it to be, fuel pump eventually filled the big PMO carbs, ignition ON and Kaboom, it fired instantly onto 6 pots and hummmmmmed there warming up. Bloody hell!
911T next. It has sat still in the garage since late September, and mid March is oil change time, or every 2 years air filter etc too.
Pulled the Lola out so i had the full width of the garage to tinker in, plan was to change the oil, filter and while it was up on stands clean the wheel arches out, an annual ritual to keep on top of everything, dry wipe down, all grit off and lots of WD40.
This is usually an event-free task...
Opened proceedings by dropping the oil from the dry sump tank, not much came out as usual after the long stand. Magnetic plug good and clean, nothing on it. Good.
Next, drop the oil from the sump.
Usually easy, but not this time. I must have been feeling very strong when i put the sump plug back in last time as the 15mm spanner rounded off the flats on the malleable iron sump plug. First time for everything!
While i pondered how to get the plug out and repair it I put the first battery on charge. Charger hummed, but the needle stayed on Zero amps. Duff battery?
Second battery on and the charger jumped to 6 amps.
They are at least 10 years old, so bound to fail soon. Maybe.
Back to the pressing matter of the sump plug. Access is not great, mole grips rounded the plug head even more, so welded a 15mm ring spanner onto the plug! Oddly the welds held (MIG weld, mild steel wire, chrome moly spanner, cast iron, not a good mix). It came out using a trolley jack to apply lots of force on the welded spanner. Crack! it was free. Had to angle grind the spanner off to unscrew the plug...
Repaired the plug using a 19mm nut slid onto a turned-down plug head and cross drilled the two and inserted a 4mm dia steel pin to take the torque. It worked, will order a new one for next time.
Now sorted oil-wise filled the car with 10 litres of oil as a starter.
Replaced both batteries to see if it would start.
After the usual slow 3.2 cranking over it fired on 6 and hummmmmed like the Lola, 50 psi cold @ tickover, Good!
This fine engine is undisturbed from the factory and has about 140,000 miles on it.
Good warm up and checked the oil level, nothing on the stick so 1.5 litres later mid way between Min and Max.
Shut the car off. Both batteries show 13.1Volts...
Going to try them again in the week and see what the volts etc are.
So, never did do the rear wheel arch clean, planned for Monday, but have about 6.4 litres of 540 bhp Porsche power all up and running.
Lola first, fresh 99 octane into the empty car, good churn over to get oil where I'd like it to be, fuel pump eventually filled the big PMO carbs, ignition ON and Kaboom, it fired instantly onto 6 pots and hummmmmmed there warming up. Bloody hell!
911T next. It has sat still in the garage since late September, and mid March is oil change time, or every 2 years air filter etc too.
Pulled the Lola out so i had the full width of the garage to tinker in, plan was to change the oil, filter and while it was up on stands clean the wheel arches out, an annual ritual to keep on top of everything, dry wipe down, all grit off and lots of WD40.
This is usually an event-free task...
Opened proceedings by dropping the oil from the dry sump tank, not much came out as usual after the long stand. Magnetic plug good and clean, nothing on it. Good.
Next, drop the oil from the sump.
Usually easy, but not this time. I must have been feeling very strong when i put the sump plug back in last time as the 15mm spanner rounded off the flats on the malleable iron sump plug. First time for everything!
While i pondered how to get the plug out and repair it I put the first battery on charge. Charger hummed, but the needle stayed on Zero amps. Duff battery?
Second battery on and the charger jumped to 6 amps.
They are at least 10 years old, so bound to fail soon. Maybe.
Back to the pressing matter of the sump plug. Access is not great, mole grips rounded the plug head even more, so welded a 15mm ring spanner onto the plug! Oddly the welds held (MIG weld, mild steel wire, chrome moly spanner, cast iron, not a good mix). It came out using a trolley jack to apply lots of force on the welded spanner. Crack! it was free. Had to angle grind the spanner off to unscrew the plug...
Repaired the plug using a 19mm nut slid onto a turned-down plug head and cross drilled the two and inserted a 4mm dia steel pin to take the torque. It worked, will order a new one for next time.
Now sorted oil-wise filled the car with 10 litres of oil as a starter.
Replaced both batteries to see if it would start.
After the usual slow 3.2 cranking over it fired on 6 and hummmmmed like the Lola, 50 psi cold @ tickover, Good!
This fine engine is undisturbed from the factory and has about 140,000 miles on it.
Good warm up and checked the oil level, nothing on the stick so 1.5 litres later mid way between Min and Max.
Shut the car off. Both batteries show 13.1Volts...
Going to try them again in the week and see what the volts etc are.
So, never did do the rear wheel arch clean, planned for Monday, but have about 6.4 litres of 540 bhp Porsche power all up and running.