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  1. Tool Pants
    We need the details and part number for the next guy. I know there is a switch in the B pillar as it is shown in the shop manual, but the manual does not tell you what it does and we have never had to replace one. I asked Peter what happens if it goes bad and he said the top will cycle back and forth. I think there is one on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...MEBWA%3AIT&rd=1
  2. Tool Pants
    Sounds to me you have not closed the bleed nipple tight enough? It is a pain to get a wrench in there on a Boxster and I doubt if it is much more fun on a 996. Sometimes I will use a socket rather than an open or closed end wrench.
  3. Tool Pants
    I forgot to mention my $2 power bleeder before I bought the Motive. :o I bought a cap and drilled a hole in it and put in a wheel valve stem. Attached my air chuck with the regulator set to 20 psi and bled away on the brakes and clutch. Hard to haul a 100 pound air compressor around in the Boxster to our work on cars days so I finally bought the Motive bug sprayer.
  4. Tool Pants
    All I can add is that I have used the Motive several times to flush the fluid on Boxsters and never had an issue. Before I had the Motive and worked on other cars by myself I would do the same as you. I had a short broomstick handle and would wedge it between the seat and clutch pedal so that the pedal was down. Open and then close bleed nipple. Let pedal up. Repeat. Sounds like what you did. I have asked Peter before if there is anything special about bleeding the Boxster brakes and clutch and he said no - you can do it the old fashioned way. You have a mystery. More so since you said it was fine for a week. If you sucked air into the system then you would know it the minute you first depressed the clutch pedal.
  5. Tool Pants
    The Boxster shop manual also says to pressure bleed the clutch with the pedal to the floor. But I have never done it this way. Perhaps you need the pedal to the floor if the master cylinder has been replaced, but if you are just flushing new fluid it is not necessary. When you did the pedal pumping method did you have a helper to open and close the bleed nipple? If not you may have sucked in air like Loren says.
  6. Tool Pants
    This is a good question for Peter if he knows. I doubt if it is that simple. I bet our control unit is different, and of course the euro key head has the extra button for the top. It would be interesting to get Jay's Ruf cab next to a US cab and see what is different other than the obvious extra button he has. Jeff
  7. Tool Pants
    Not with oem parts. Measure the height of the 2 spaces. Then figure out what will hold the weight of the radio head from the back since there is no oem bracket for that location. Then make a custom trim piece.
  8. Tool Pants
    Looks like Porsche finally give up with the Audi/VW plastic ignition switch. The one that has been revised 4 times over the years. My 1997 has been replaced twice. Once under warranty due to electrical problems and then years later under the recall - sorry - service action. TSB was issued 3 months ago. As of September 2003 there is a new switch installed in production cars. But the new switch does not fit in the older steering wheel lock. The new super duper switch only fits in the - you guessed it - the new steering wheel lock. A $30 typical switch replacement part cost is now a $115 lock replacement. An experienced mechanic can replace the old style switch in about 5 minutes. The lock assembly replacement takes more time The TSB says the old switch is not available. But Porsche still has them in the US unless they decide to pull them. But, there is always Audi/VW. Update. Porsche has in fact pulled the switch so now you just buy it as an Audi/VW part.
  9. Tool Pants
    You might want to use those shift buttons for machine guns. :huh: You are not the first one to want to use the buttons for radio functions - but this is not possible with the Becker radios. There is nothing published on how to use the buttons to operate the OBC/trip computer. It is something a friend and I came up with last year when he got a good deal off ebay for a tip steering wheel on his manual transmission car, and he did not have the trip computer. You have to buy an air bag spiral spring unit that is for a tip and replace it with the one you have. You also need one special VW wire. It is a bit involved as this is not the standard trip computer retrofit. We filmed the retrofit on another local car a few months ago. I will have to look through the video and see if it came out good enough to be included in our DIYer DVD set. It is not hard to do but there is no way I can explain it on a message board.
  10. Tool Pants
    We let Aileen do the easy stuff.
  11. Tool Pants
    I might be the only one in the US with a 1998 tech intro booklet. Had to buy it from England as we did not have a model year 1998.
  12. Tool Pants
    744 is black metalic. What is the problem? Porsche does not sell a touch up pen in the US that I know of. Ours has a brush in a bottle and comes in a box. The bottle has a color band on it that shows you what is inside.
  13. Tool Pants
    So that is where I left my wrench when I changed the belt. :o
  14. Tool Pants
    Are you saying that you had no noise before the serpentine belt was replaced, and only have noise after it was replaced. Are you saying the noise is related to the belt. Is the noise from the area where the belt is. Hard to figure out a noise complaint over the internet. You need to supply a lot more information.
  15. Tool Pants
    I saw Raman's 2003 yesterday when he fixed my computer. He ran the cable exactly the way I said, the same way we run the cd changer cable. I am suprised the rear speaker cable is long enough but it is.
  16. Tool Pants
    Here is another guy that dispelled the rumor. http://www.burnham.my-net-space.net/ You can also see the electrical wiring if the foam parts are heated. http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...st=0entry4909 There are 2 part numbers for the bottom foam cushion and 2 part numbers for the upper. One part number if it is heated, and another if it is not. There is also a price difference. It would make no sense if all the foam was heated when there are 2 part numbers. If you come to a work on cars day I will put the upper cushion off my car since it has heated seats and show you the wiring - takes 5 seconds. Then I will pull it off your car. It is very easy to tell if the cushions have the heater coils. You can see in this picture of Jamie's car (a 1998) that there are no wires from the foam for a heater coil since he does not have heated seats.
  17. Tool Pants
    It is an internet rumor that was around before I started Boxstering 5 years ago. Looked for them on many non heated cars and never found one. Den Vogle has come up with instructions for a retrofit but you need to buy the upper and lower foam with the heater coils in them.
  18. Tool Pants
    We show how to do this on the DVD we shot last year. The carpeted trim panel has a #2 phillips in it. We filmed it on Raman's car with a black interior. So it would show up we held the driver in the screw while the tape was running and Raman removed it. This is also the same for the spin lock install which we also filmed. Loren's instructions will show you where the screw is.
  19. Tool Pants
    Yep, your brake lights do not work. Problem with the older cars. You can try to fix the old switch or just buy the newest and greatest new version of the switch. Stick your head way under the brake pedal area and you will see it.
  20. Tool Pants
    That's what I would have done ... Used bubble gum is another choice. ;) From what I see here that part is made to screw from behind on the sport seat which has the plastic back.
  21. Tool Pants
    You should come over to the next work on cars day in San Jose. There are usually about 20 cars and you can listen to all the different sound systems and see what you like. There are about 5 different subs you can fit behind the seats, and 3 different rear speaker kits. You should also listen to Bose as the people I know who have it do not like it much as it is boomy.
  22. Tool Pants
    Armand with a C4S bought the Ruf ones and wanted me to put them on but we ran out of time when we worked on his car doing other things and it was dark. Too bad because I wanted to film it Then he had his friend put them on and one is crooked. :P
  23. Tool Pants
    One of our guys just did this on a 2003. I have not seen it but I think he routed the cable the way we do it for a cd cahnger. Remove the battery clamp and the negative cable. Slide your battery over to the passenger side. You will see a large rubber gromet behind the battery. Stick an ice pick in the middle of the gromet then look inside the car above the gas pedal. You run the harness through this gromet. Then you need to get the cable into the trunk. Pull back the carpet where the cd changer goes and you will see another large gromet. Poke a hole and run it through that gromet. Jeff
  24. Tool Pants
    PCM1 was made by Siemens. PCM2 is made by Becker. I have no experience with the rest of your question. Jeff
  25. Tool Pants
    Believe it or not Excellence does not have a site. I have the article and will give it or mail a copy of it to you. They sell back issues if they have any left and you want the orignial issue. 415-382-0580. After you replace your clutch then you can help me do mine. Or I would suggest contacting Tim Benson at Fast Lane in Santa Cruz for a quote. He worked for AB and My-Porsche and now has his own shop. He put on a tech session for us last year.
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