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  1. Tool Pants
    The standard shift knob is a very tight friction fit. The optional shift knobs have a set screw. Unclip the boot/gaiter and see if there is a set screw. To remove the 2 white plastic cup bushings I break the tabs that hold them in place with a small wood chisel. Watch your eyes as they fly when you wack on them with a chisel.
  2. Tool Pants
    The early cars are simple compared to the newer cars. Rockymount1 has a 1999. No MOST or dot matrix back then. Look at what Bill did on a 2003. http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=12805 When he still had the Boxster cluster he did the OBC retrofit last year several techs could not get it to work. I gave him Peter's phone number and Peter walked his tech through it, and it worked. Then he decides to put in a dot matrix and non-MOST 2002 996 cluster in his 2003 MOST Boxster. I expected it would not be easy to figure it out. Sure enough his tech had problems. Another call to Peter and it worked.
  3. Tool Pants
    No clue how to swap a 997 cluster into a 987. But someone will do it sooner or later.
  4. Tool Pants
    The car care products sold by Porsche are made by Dr.OK.Wack, a German based chemical company. http://www.wackchem.com/ I bought the top spray from my dealer 6 or so years ago. Said back then it was a waste of time and money, and that I would never treat the top again. And I have not. There are many other products that you can use. RaggTop is said to be good. This product was not around when I started Boxstering in 1999. http://www.wolfsteins.com/main.htm
  5. Tool Pants
    A 5 mm spacer is not much, less than 1/4 of an inch. Local owner Henry put 996 wheels on his 2000 2.7 and used 6 mm spacers with the original 45 mm wheel bolts for 10,000 miles. He is still alive as is his Boxster. After I teased him long enough he put on the 50 mm GT3 wheel bolts. I wish I had counted the number of turns he had before and after the wheel bolt change. Next time I see Henry I might just do that. There is a rule of thumb for the number of turns when using spacers and the stock wheel bolts. I have have seen different rules. On my 1997 with stock 17" wheels and stock wheel bolts with no spacers I counted 7.5 turns for the front.
  6. Tool Pants
    There is a 997 cluster on ebay. Listed for $179 with a buy it now price of $219. You should do it. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...9581&rd=1,1
  7. Tool Pants
    No clue, but you might try one of these companies. http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/import...st01122006.html
  8. Tool Pants
    I have never seen these animals in person. All I can do is look up parts. I do not have a 987 workshop manual. The 986 pictures the UK guys took for me show the tilt sensor next to the battery. From reading messages in the UK boards water would get into the sensor and cause problems with the alarm. So the fix was to relocate it to under the seat. No clue where it is on a 987. From reading the 987 publications all I can gather is the 986 infrared interior motion detector became radar based on the 987. If you want to look at the 986 retrofit kit then have your OPC look in the Tequipment section of PET. I do not see a 987 retrofit kit listed. The individual replacement parts for the siren/tilt sensor are listed in PET, but a wiring harness is not listed. You should check with Richard Hamilton or on the UK message boards and see if someone has done the retrofit on a 987/997.
  9. Tool Pants
    That vacuum system is neat. I have been watching a model on ebay. When I replaced the coolant tank on the Boxster I lifted up the bleed lever and drove around for 20 minutes. That was over a year ago. But I thin the Boxster tank is higher than a 996. The vacuum system is good for a dealership. I don't think they want mechanics driving cars around the street trying to get air out.
  10. Tool Pants
    Another part of the mystery solved. A green market Boxstir without a country. If you buy a used cluster and the OBC in that cluster is on, then the OBC will work when you put the used cluster in your car. If the OBC in the used cluster has not been turned on then you will have to have it turned on after it is in your car. You would have a mileage issue because the mileage is stored in the cluster, so whatever the mileage is on a used cluster is what it will show when put into your car. A dealer cannot change the mileage on a used cluster. But there are aftermarket companies that can reset the mileage in a used cluster to match your car. The Boxster model years that work with your 1999 are 1997-2000. Or you can do the 996 cluster swap and get the volt meter and oil pressure gauges.
  11. Tool Pants
    I am old enough to remember this. In fact, I use to do it. Would dribble water down the carb while you revved it up. Was supposed to steam clean the combusion chamber. Now there are products you can stick into an induction system with the goal to remove carbon deposits. Stuff like seafoam and when I was at my Porsche dealership last year a vendor had yet another product. But when I did this kind of stuff in the very old days we only had leaded gas which could leave a thick carbon deposit. With unleaded gas being used for something like 30 years in the US years I would like to know why removing carbon is still an issue unless you have a fuel management issue or burn oil.
  12. Tool Pants
    Here.... http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...amp;#entry25905
  13. Tool Pants
    On some vehicles there is. But not on a Boxster.
  14. Tool Pants
    Where did you hear this? What is it you want to do?
  15. Tool Pants
    I just spoke to Peter and most of the mystery is solved. To Federalize the car he thought that all that had to be changed is the speedometer face, and that is why your water temp face is still metric. He checked the warranty computer and your car was sold 10/22/98 by dealer #2212. He also said something about dealer 7670 but I forget. I do not have a way to look up this number to find the name of the dealer. My local dealer was #120 and when the dealership was sold to Penske last year it became #150. There have been 7 warranty claims. The first 4 were done by PCL which Peter thought was something like Porsche Canada Limited. The last 3 were done by PCNA - Porsche Cars North America. He remembered trying to change my OBC displays 5 years ago. He still does not know of a way to do it other than buying a US instrument cluster. The only thing left is why you do not have a country equipment code on the option sticker. C00 is for Germany. C99 is for a country with no specific equipment requirements - but you have no C code. A Boxster without a country.... But Porsche does make mistakes, and I can think of an instance when Porsche made a big mistake on a 996 option sticker.
  16. Tool Pants
    I am in the US and we do not have the alarm siren/tilt sensor. Never seen it in person. Just pictures of it you UK guys take for me. There is a retrofit kit for the 986 - I know because I thought of buying it but it had to be ordered from Germany, but was not sure what it would take to get it to work on a US car. The retrofit kit comes with a wiring harness. Our US 986s were not prewired for it. On the 986 it was mounted next to the battery. The black box with the round red thing is the siren. Below that is the tilt sensor. The picture is a UK 986. No clue on a UK 987. Don't know if there is a retrofit kit for the 987. Don't know if you can just puy the parts and make your own kit. Doubt very much that your car is prewired for it. Don't know if you can use the 986 retrofit kit. Take some picture of this thing as it is something we do not see in North America.
  17. Tool Pants
    Pull up on the hand brake and start the car. All warning lights should go off except the brake light and, in your case, the roof light will still be on. If the parking brake light is on then the parking brake switch is ok. Then stick your finger in the hole for the roof latch. Push you finger in and out and you will hear a slight click as the switches go on and off. There are actually 2 switches in there. 1 switch for the window drop and the other for the roof. Keep pushing your finger in and out while at the same time you hold down the roof button to see if you can get the roof to move.
  18. Tool Pants
    Hard to read the white door sticker but looks like it says imported by FTW INC. I take it that is the company that imported it to the US and/or the company that Federalize the car. Never imported a car so I don't know You should have a black sticker but maybe it is covered by the white sticker, or maybe the black sticker was removed by the importer. First pic is the black sticker on the drivers door for a 1999 US car. This sticker is put on by Porsche since Porsche certifies that it meets the standards of the country where it is being sold. I think an importer makes it's own certification. Your option sticker does not have a country code. I don't see a C followed by 2 numbers. The plot thickens. Still trying to figure out why your analog speedometer is in miles. You can buy a kit and replace the gauge faces but then why is the water temp metric. As an example, the second picture is a car from Mexico that came up to California to visit his local Boxster friend, and they both went to a local tech session that I also attended. I took a picture of the option sticker at the tech session because I had never seen a Boxster with Mexican specs. This sticker has C34 which is the country code for Mexico. The third picture is the metric instrument cluster. If you have the maintenance booklet look and see what dealer sold it when it was new. Also look at all the air bag warning stickers and see if they are in English and French.
  19. Tool Pants
    The country codes start with the letter C. This one is C02 for the US. This is the black sticker on the door.
  20. Tool Pants
    Your analog speedometer reads in miles but the water temp gauge is metric. I don't remember the other 1999 Canadian car being like that. The 1999 owners manual I have shows KP/H on the speedometer for a Canadian car. For grins, see if you have C36 on the option sticker. That is the code for Canada. Also look at the black sticker on the door and see if it Canadian specs. Do you have daytime driving lights? I would ask you to pull the cluster and give me the part number, but I think that is a bit much. Where are the other Canadian members on this board, eh?
  21. Tool Pants
    I looked up 3 Boxster parts numbers and the were the same as 3 996 parts numbers. Guess the only difference is when it comes time to program it to a specific model.
  22. Tool Pants
    987 561 901 00 called "set of fastening parts for wind deflector."
  23. Tool Pants
    I hope I was clear. The link to McMaster is for generic ball joints used by some guy. Metal joints designed specifically for the Boxster are made by Scott Levy and are sold by KLA Industries. http://www.klaindustries.net/products/products-1.htm We have discussed metal joints before. There is a risk using metal joints. If something goes wrong with the top operation a plastic joint will break and might prevent damage to other top parts. That's not going to happen with a metal joint. This is Scott's joint.
  24. Tool Pants
    I want more power from this Sears mower that I found abandoned next to the dumpster in my office parking lot. It came with a Champion RJ19LM spark plug. I heard they are crap. When I picked up the carburetor rebuild kit at the local lawn mower shop I asked for a performance spark plug. He handed me a box with a Denso plug inside. Made in Japan, but what could I do? Denso pioneered the iridium power plug. Turns out it is a standard Denso U-Groove plug. :cursing: So, I looked around my used Porsche parts bin and found a Bosch 4 side electrode plug that is used by Porsche. But the reach on the Bosch plug is too long. If I screwed in the Porsche plug and pulled the starter rope I think I will poke a hole through the top of the piston. So I will use the Denso plug for the time being.
  25. Tool Pants
    Awesome induction sound. From my seat-of-the-pants dyno I think the gains are 2.7 in torque and 5.3 in horse power, with an improvement in gas mileage. I am going to take out a patent on it. Going to have to put the pickup on one of those fancy dyno machines and do some pulls. :o Back to the topic. Since this old thread started there has been another message by Scott Slauson on the PCA tech site regarding the 987/Cayman. http://www.pca.org/tech/tech_qa_question.a...C-3A5F748391BF}
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