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Re: A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:42 am
by Burma-Shave
hot66 wrote:
Love that one James. 964 is a handsome devil.
Really interesting about the tyre plug kit, I think we all need one in the glovebox, especially if it can survive Peter on the autobahn.. was it just one of these?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Emergency-Tu ... SwLX5cPdRq
Re: A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:46 am
by murph2309
DynaPlug. Was amazing how well it worked. Kit costs about £60ish on amazon, but compared with having to do the rest of the trip on a space saver, absolutely, totally worth the money.
You get 4 plugs and can buy more - they’re brass tipped and have a waxy wick behind them to plug the hole.
Bolt came out. Hiss of air, plug gets pushed in, sorted....
Re: A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:49 am
by murph2309
A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 11:45 pm
by hot66
The original plan after Cortina was to head to Gmund , the birthplace. We’d worked out before we set off from the U.K. that we really couldnt fit everything in on the Sunday .
So, Gmund removed from the plan, we concentrated on the cross country driving with the main aim of hitting the famous Grossglockner
Our usual 9:30am start and we headed out of Cortina and onto some stunning roads . We did think it was slightly strange that people were standing at the roadsides in all the villages we passed through ... soon became apparent we were heading straight into a cycle race
. H&S being so different in Italy, we were waved down and got out to watch.
We had a great run on from here, out of Italy and back into Austria
The roads towards the southern side of Grossglockner opened up nicely... bit of a close call with the police wound is back for all of 5 mins
A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 11:53 pm
by hot66
A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 12:01 am
by hot66
Photos can’t really do it justice ... but by this point the day was moving on and we still had a fair way to go to get our next hotel, so we got on with the descending and getting ready to head over a few lower level passes to get to our Sunday night stop. Unfortunately whilst pressing on we had our next car issue ... mine this time
Lost the clutch pedal with a pop.. straight to the floor when changing to 4th .. so with no gears or drive managed to coast to a side road and pull off. Turned out the roll pin for the clutch pedal had worked itself completely out ( pedal box had been apart only a few weeks earlier for new bushes.. pin was genuine Porsche and as it was, once back home I checked and it had worked itself out again) ... lucky for me, 5 mins or so of drifting it back into place ( much to the amusement of a local family who were wondering what was going on in front of their garden ) and we could continue on to what would be a bargain hotel of the trip
Re: A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 7:33 am
by Burma-Shave
Crackin.
Re: A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:27 am
by sladey
I don’t know the pin setup but can you drill a hole across the end and put a split pin in?
A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:41 am
by hot66
Roll pin sits flush in the housing. Think I’m going to run a lock wire through it’s centre and wrap around the shaft( same as lock wire on bolts) ... although it should t really have moved at all as the original managed for 25years. These pins do have a habit of snapping with age though ( had the one on my 2.4s fail a few years ago)
Re: A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 10:23 am
by Lightweight_911
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Great roads with stunning views in an 'old' Porsche in the company of other like-minded 'mavericks' - what could be better ?
Quite jealous ...
Re: A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 3:06 pm
by murph2309
So.... the most photogenic part of the trip for me. Großglockner has the most epic drifts...
And just to be totally self-indulgent....
The car just looked so good in the sunshine!
Never driven anywhere like this. It was so utterly lovely. What a privilege...
Re: A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 6:45 pm
by 964RS
I thought that was what all Euro garages used for punctures Johnny?
I've had two puncture repairs on the RSR while on euro trips both repaired with those.....good job too as no bugger would have had the tyres within 500 miles....
Probably worth having one of these Dynaplug or ebay ones in the glove box....!
Re: A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:33 pm
by Darren65
Very envious.....great photos and write-up and absolutely awesome trip, well done boys
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....proper DDK
Re: A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 9:43 pm
by Darren65
murph2309 wrote:DynaPlug. Was amazing how well it worked.....
...Dynaplug ordered....roll on September
A ‘weekend’ roadtrip
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 9:36 pm
by hot66