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  1. alex222
    I don't have a pic with the top opened up handy and it's cold in my area to open it up the soft top having a handful of the rubber-ish strings that don't like moving them when it is cold. But you can google it See p.85 of the manual (section 61-40): http://p914-6info.net/996_Manuals/996 Group 6 Body Exterior.pdf. Hint: Adobe Reader and MS Edge are not opening up the links on the table of contents. The Google Chrome browser does open them up. I don't know of any good Porsche shops in the Orlando, FL area. Usually, a good shop is not a next to your door like in "North Orlando". Dealers are usually the worst. They usually don't know anything beyond a capability of changing the engine oil/brake pads/shocks/springs or so. Get yourself familiar with this. It's the best to go to: 996 Workshop Manuals P914-6INFO.NET
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    Loren, thanks. As I see the part number for a replacement part at the present time is 996 343 041 36 but the nature of my q is if used shocks 996 343 041 20 can be used for my pup? WP0CA29933S653275
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    The ambient light sensor adjusts the brightness for the 3 displays on the instrument cluster. It's not the feature of "automatic lights" that been developed to the later models. The sensor is not switching the instrument cluster illumination ON or OFF when you are passing a dark spot or when it is getting dark. Those are with the "A- [lights symbol] feature. The illumination for 996/986 is switched on/off only by light switch knob. With the parking lights and instrument cluster illumination on, the ambient sensor adjusts the 3 panels brighter or darker as the it is lighter/darker in the cabin to the setting set by the adjustment knob. It does not adjust the instrument cluster back-light illumination. You can point your flash light from the smartphone on and off the ambient sensor while not driving with the engine on with the parking lights on and off and you see how the brightness changes on the 3 displays.
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    Are you sure your L or R hydraulic cylinder is not dead? Take off the central carpet cover panel in the rear where the soft top is stored folded down and check if there is no oil all over by either of the cylinders? Also see how much oil it is in the hydraulic pump tank - it's off the center toward the RR wheel.
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    P1130 - mixture is too lean so the control is up to the enrichment limit. That's on your passenger side cylinders 4-6. Start with replacing one then the other oxygen sensor on the passenger side. If the error comes back it could be as a leak in the vacuum line but also it can be a leak in the exhaust on the flange where the 3 nuts are. I had on the Boxster the [st*pud] and LAZY mechanics put iron nuts on the exhaust flange after the cat resulting iron nuts corrosion and erosion resulted in sucking in some fresh air to the after the cat so as I noticed the past-cat sensor is super-sensitive sensing more oxygen in exhaust gases more than before the cat = saying 'dude something is wrong w/ your pup' in English. I spent a half-day crawling in the wheel housing removing the remains of the iron nuts from the flange studs on the exaust pipe put the factory nuts by the P/N and that was it and all good since that and that was about 5 years ago.
  6. alex222
    A little oil like on the picture inside the intake and that much on the napkin is normal. It comes from the oil separator.
  7. alex222
    Hmmm... it's hard to say what you trying to do. Can you post the corresponding pictures?
  8. alex222 started following Metal cylinders on 996 front brake pads and 996.2 Front Shocks
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    Are the front shocks for 996.2 C2 MY02 can be used for MY03? I tried to do some homework with the following outcome: MY 02: 996 343 041 20 MY03-04: 996 343 041 23 Currently offered by the dealerships for all C2 MY02 and MY03-04: 996 343 041 36 with mentioning a prev. part offered also for all MY02-04: 996 343 041 27
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    Thanks! Makes sense. Interesting some models do have those (996/997, 958 Cayenne both front and rear) while others don't - 993, 991, the Boxsters. Talking about the Boxsters - the 986 front ones having this little stick, while for 987 same pads and they took this little stick off. What is it for?
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    Just curious of what these metal cylinders on the front 996/997 brake pads are for? Boxster pads are not having those. Never seen such on any other cars neither.
  13. alex222
    It was a cross-bar under the transmission pan got loose because I had overfilled a bit so the oil got to the mounting bolts + vibration.
  14. alex222
    I lifted up the pup in a body shop I had stopped by for something else and checked the final drives and CV joints both tight and the inner joints are tight to the gearbox flanges. Seems all good. Not seeing anything loose in rear suspension on neither side. I have a spare set of aftermarket rear brake rotors with the aftermarket set of the pads in my garage that I replaced with the factory ones a year ago after I got the pup. Will swap those one side at a time see if it anything w/ the stock brake disks/pads or also there is an aluminum screen on the inner side of the brake rotor if anything is with it?
  15. alex222
    Will do on the upcoming weekend but to my knowledge as I had replaced both inner CV boots on a 355 last Summer which was involving disassembly the inner CV joints with the ball bearing completely with reassembling; if it will be a wear in the CV caves on either shaft or the star and the CV joint is loose, it will be a push because of so at the beginning of the car movement from standing still but when clunk(s) happen are when the pup is few seconds already moving and during the clunking sound there is no any pushes or any movement distortion. As I looked the 996.2 and 987.1 final drives and the CV boots look very similar to 355. Probably the same or similar all made by Bosch. It is just the clunking sound. Or two. And, when driving somewhere say for about an hr, the sound is not getting repeating more often, etc. And I was driving at some times up to 60mph. All perfect. Shifting and everything.
  16. alex222
    Inner and outer CV boots look great on both sides. I jacked the RL wheel up and rotated it back and forth on Neutral. It has some gap when moving it back and forth but it's not making that clunking sound if rotated up in the air by hands. I jacked up and did same back and forth wheel rotation on 987 which is with ZF19 gearbox. It has similar but smaller and less noticeable gap when moving it back and forth. The weel hub bearing? The wheel hub bearing on 996 seems perfect. The wheel itself rotates with no any noise.
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