84 PORSCHE 911: We Troubleshoot An Oil Leak
About the same time as our last oil change the car developed a small oil leek that would congregate on the bottom of the engine block and then drip on the showroom floor. It was of a concerning amount but quite annoying sort of level. The problem was we couldn’t figure where it was coming from.The interweb suggested two dire possibilities that we thought we had to investigate: broken head...
85 UR QUATTRO: Out of Hibernation
When we left you back in January, we’d put the car away for the winter in pretty good shape with it running quite well. Before we got it out again, we thought we’d fix the horrible grinding noise coming from the passenger window regulator so we pulled the door card off and wrestled it out of the door.Once we got into the mechanism, we found that the cable had stretched...
QUATTRO RALLY BUILD: More Slots & Screens
At the end of our last update, we left you wondering if we could resist the temptation to adjust the lower slots on the bumper cover. Well, of course we couldn’t. They actually didn’t need much fettling. This was the worst offender and a fairly easy fix.So, we moved on to installing the screens. We found this nice stainless-steel mesh online that looked about the right size. It came in...
RALIVAN2: Rustproofing Our RALIVAN
Our RALIVAN hasn't seen much authentic action since our last road trip. In fact about the only two outings it has had were to get rustproofed and also a visit to the (not so) local Mercedes dealer. Before that all went down we took it round the corner for a new windshield. Not that there was anything wrong with the old windshield; it just wasn't glued in! We had been...
TIMSYBERIA: TIMsyberia Gets Some "Spring" Upgrades
It’s driving season, not fixing cars season. However, we’ve been fixing cars.The winter months revealed that the tailgate struts on our Cayenne were getting weak. They were still working but would barely hold up the tailgate. They had to go. Unlike normal cars it’s not so simple.They’re beefy buggers once you get them out though and look like they belong on a motorbike or small sports car suspension!Our battery was...
89 944 TURBO: Shake Down
Because this car is not streetable (more on that later) we were itching to drive it aggressively so we grabbed the first opportunity we could find, a local Autocross.Our first problem was getting it in the trailer. Everything else we have loaded up into it has been a rally car or stock Audi so this was going to be interesting at best. We knew we'd have to remove the front...