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  1. Tool Pants
    When you buy the oil separator it comes with the bellows. In the parts diagram above you see the separator is #1. There is a line below the 1 and the numbers #2, #10, and #11. That means if your order part #1 then it also comes with parts #2, #10, and #11. #10 is the bellows and #11 is the upper clamp for the bellows. The J-tube is a separate item.
  2. Tool Pants
    On the air cooled engines they use timeserts, because helicoils can pull out. I have seen engines with the heads off at the dealership, but I never asked if they had one with a pulled out head bolt. I do not know any US shops rebuilding the M96 engine. There are several UK shops that do. The one that comes to mind is Hartech (Barry Hart). http://www.hartech.org/index.html Hartech himself is on the UK board Pistonheads. Here is a link to one of his messages if you want to find him. http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.a...=0&t=471313 Pelican has an engine rebuilding forum, but it is air cooled. You could also ask there but I doubt if they have experience with water cooled engines. http://forums.pelicanparts.com/forumdisplay.php?f=257 Autofarm is another UK shop. http://www.autofarm.co.uk/engines/water_cooled
  3. Tool Pants
    When you said allen and nylon I knew you were in the wrong hole.... That is how you adjust the beams, not remove the headlight. At our local work on cars days we get to see cars that are on the second and third owners. Sometimes we see a car and the ROUND plug you need to remove to insert a headlight removal tool is missing. If I hunt around I can usually find it because it was dropped behind the trunk carpet. Or inside the trunk. I once found one in the storage pocket for the spare tire. Second picture shows the tool from the tool kit in the proper hole to unlock/remove the headlight. The factory tool is usually a sloppy fit so I use a 5 mm socket, 1/4" drive.
  4. Tool Pants
    I forgot about this guy in the US but with a metric Canadian cluster as the car was imported to the US from Canada. http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...3&hl=canada You should swap clusters with him.... A few years ago we had a local gal here in California with a 1997 imported from Canada. She had the factory OBC with the additional stalk. Her OBC displays were metric and they could not be changed. That is why Porsche sells clusters that are country specific. If I remember correctly you can switch between metric and US units on 2002-2004 that came with OBC as a factory option. But not on the older cars.
  5. Tool Pants
    Since the price of batteries has gone up recently I decided to check out Walmart, as suggested by Cosmos. They have a group size 48 which they call 48-3 Everstart. 2 year free replacement warranty. 875 cranking amps. 700 cold cranking amps. Comes with the vent tube. Has the same specs as Autozone, same warranty, and looks identical, as it is also made by Johnson Controls. I did not see a 47 on the shelf. Walmart also has an Everlast brand, and those batteries are yellow, but I did not see one that could be used on a Porsche. $53.72 for the Walmart Everstart 48. Not including sales tax or any core charge. That is the best value out there in battery land. If you need one, better buy it before word gets around and Walmart raises the price. I paid $59.99 for the Autozone version of this battery almost 6 years ago.
  6. Tool Pants
    That will change the interior temp display on the a/c control unit. It does not change the instrument cluster display for the outside temp. The Porsche a/c control unit is from an Audi, so I guess that is why you can change the a/c display on your Audi. It is strange that on the Porsche it does not also change the cluster display. But I guess that is what happens when Porsche builds cars from the VW/Audi parts bins.
  7. Tool Pants
    On your year if you want to modify the instrument cluster coding with PST2/PIWIS there are 2 changes that can be made. Change the clock from 12 to 24 hours. Change the OBC to on/off. There is no menue to change the outside temp display. We have tried to make this change for years with no luck. If you had a cluster from a metric country, such as Canada, then the display would be in Celsius. No clue about a ROW cluster.
  8. Tool Pants
    You would have to put in a metric instrument cluster.
  9. Tool Pants
    Studs.
  10. Tool Pants
    Allen is used to adjust the headlight. 5 mm socket is used to remove the headlight, or you use the 5 mm tool in the tool kit.
  11. Tool Pants
    Here is a tip if you need just the plastic joint. You buy the 987 push rod and remove the joint and put it on your 986 push rod. For some reason the 987 push rod is about $10 less than the 986 push rod. The plastic joints are the same.
  12. Tool Pants
    My 10 year old car is now long out of a warranty. On the smog machine. This is the latest smog test. There are 5 readiness monitors. I had 4 of the 5 set. Apparently California changed the law in 2003 and you need only 3. When I got home I hooked up the car to the PST2 and I had ABS speed sensor faults for the front wheels. There were no faults prior to the test. Guess my Box does not like the machine, or maybe the way the guy backed up the car off the dyno after the test. 5 inspections since June 1999. :censored:
  13. Tool Pants
    Saw the base version at my local dealer today. Funny thing is, the lady that answers the phones is behind a counter in the showroom, a few feet away from all the cars on the showroom floor. She knows how many orange cars have come in.
  14. Tool Pants
    Neither of those lights are technically legal because the do not have DOT on them, with or without the tint. They are euro amber lights that were tinted in Germany. Henry had a bunch of lights and we tried them on Aileen's black Boxster a few years ago. To make the bulbs brighter Henry came up with the idea of replacing the single filament bulbs with dual filament bulbs. Another test picture.
  15. Tool Pants
    2 versions of black tinted tail lights on a non metalic black car.
  16. Tool Pants
    There is a spring band clamp that comes with a plastic blue thing that compresses the clamp so that the clamp is open. When the clamp is in position the blue thing is pulled away and the clamp closes. I have seen the mechanics use it so I took a picture.
  17. Tool Pants
    Turbo cluster in a Boxster has been tried and there were problems. The one that comes to mind is the oil level gauge. The turbo has a separate oil tank that the Boxster does not have. http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...49&hl=turbo
  18. Tool Pants
    When we did the OBC and rear speaker retrofit on you car a few months ago your battery died. I told you or someone you needed another one. I think everyone has raised battery prices. Somewhere on the internet someone claimed it is because the price of lead went up. No clue if that claim is true. In the old days there was no core charge at Costco for your old battery. That started a few years ago.
  19. Tool Pants
    Good. The tensioner bolt on the 2.5 (and 3.2) is also 24 mm, or 15/16". Looks like the plastic impeller went bye bye. Were you able to account for all the broken pieces?
  20. Tool Pants
    I looked at a 996 cab to see if the visors could be used on a 986, as they pivot. No way that I could figure out to mount them on a 986. http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...63&hl=visor
  21. Tool Pants
    If your brake pedel fells like normal then you should be ok. At a work on cars day one of the guys wanted to bleed his brakes with a motive. I made sure he started the job correctly. Told him to watch the brake fluid level. Then I went to work on another car. Well, as he was almost done the motive went dry so he was forcing air through one of the brake lines. As a result he had no brake pedal - went to the floor. So it was time to start all over. There was a PST2 there. I wondered if when we rebled the brakes if I needed to turn on the ABS because the motive had forced air through. Called I mechanic I know and he said no - just rebleed all 4 calipers. Mechanic said we might have to rebleed several times to get all the air out. So we rebled and the brake pedal was back to normal. Did not use the PST2. I have been told by the mechanics that you do not need a PST2 unless one of the components have been replaced, such as the ABS unit.
  22. Tool Pants
    UK cars have an additional alarm siren that we do not have in the US. This siren has a built in battery. If you disconnect the car battery then the siren goes off. So on a UK car they first turn on the ignition and then disconnect the car battery to keep the alarm siren from blaring. This procedure is not applicable on a US car. I do not know why the speakers are not working. When a 2003-2004 owner installs a rear speaker kit and it does not work it usually turns out that they hooked up the 4 speaker wires to the back of the radio head, rather to the amp. But you hooked up your wires to the amp. You might ask Harvey Peck if you have not already done so.
  23. Tool Pants
    Here is UK info. http://www.boxa.net/forum/index.php?showto...&hl=battery
  24. Tool Pants
    http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...827&hl=bulb http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=279
  25. Tool Pants
    I tried the 123456 on a 2003 S today, made in Feburary 2003. To make it ready for an OBC and cruise control retrofit. As predicted, the DME did not have an order type, just 3 dashes ---. So I was not able to get to the instrument cluster "modify coding" screen. Instead, it asked for the order type. Put 123456 into the DME as the order type and I still could not get into the screen. Then I put in 986320 and everything worked. So much for that experiment.
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