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  1. Tool Pants
    I got mine a few years ago from a local guy who was converting his S into a track car. If you watch ebay long enough you might find one for a decent price, but most of the time the price gets jacked up to what you can buy a new one for. Like Dell said, it is hard to find the air bag on ebay. A local owner got a vinyl air bag from another local owner who switched to a leather air bag. Another local owner got the wheel and bag from another local owner who crashed the car. I know someone who might have just the wheel but it is for a tip, so it has the shift buttons, but you can use them for the OBC.
  2. Tool Pants
    I do not need his page. He tried to do it about 3-4 years ago with the button/switch and it did not work. Now, he, Yoseif, has a site I asked my mechanic friend, Peter, to turn it on and it worked, just to find out the owner had reversed the wires. The woman in the background is my secretary, by the way. The guy with the PST2 is Peter. The guy standing outside the car is the owner. I took the picture. Peter gave me a copy of the OBC retrofit instructions with the 4 stalk switch assembly, and then it showed up on the internet. Then pictures of me and Dan working on Brue's car showed up on the internet. This is very old stuff. I do the retrofit a bit differently these days. Plus there was a wiring change in 2001 for the Boxster and in 2002 for the 996.
  3. Tool Pants
    http://www.iq.dynip.com/~gary/hacks/fogs/fogs.html
  4. Tool Pants
    Loren is right. I mixed up the numbering in my head because, you know, the engine in a 996 is backwards. :P
  5. Tool Pants
    You can buy either of the storage bins from any Porsche dealer. They are not that expensive.
  6. Tool Pants
    I see the missing black plastic keeper in your picture. Just a joke. Sell the Sears part to Porsche Motorsports.
  7. Tool Pants
    The all plastic keeper has a shaft with a barb on the end so that it is not supposed to pop out. You must have pried the cable connector off so the keeper went flying. With a thin blade you remove the keeper and put it in a safe place so it will not get lost. :P Then the connector just pulls off. I do not know if you can buy just the keeper. You might have to buy a connector to get the keeper. I would have to ask the parts department if they have a connector and if a keeper is in the bag. Or, you can do what Evan from FDV did as you can see from his picture, and use a metal screw instead of the plastic keeper. In his picture the screw has not yet been screwed in all the way.
  8. Tool Pants
    Depends on what you mean critical. This is a car, not a brain. Each grove is just a hair from the next one. So if you are a few groves off the transmission does not know. If you are too many groves off then you can pop out of gear or have a problem getting into gear. I was at my dealer last week talking to the mechanics I know. There is a new tool catalog that just came out. There still is no locking bridge for the 996 Porsche/B&M short shift. I doubt if there will ever be one since the 997/987 is out. A mechanic told me that when they replace the cables on a car with a short shift he puts the transmission in neutral - holds the shift lever in the neutral position - and snaps the cables into the cable connectors. Take it for a test drive and if it shifts properly then it is out the door. If he can see the wear marks on the connectors then he uses that as a reference to snap in the new cables.
  9. Tool Pants
    You are missing the keeper for the blue cable connector in your picture. Start searching the car. The second picture shows the keeper seated and flush. Hope you do not have black carpet........
  10. Tool Pants
    Henry does not like oil drips on his new concrete driveway. We do oils changes at other places where no one cares if oil drips.
  11. Tool Pants
    Send me an email with the problem so I can print it out and show it to Peter, if you do not figure it out. I will be seeing Peter next week when he gets back from 987 school.
  12. Tool Pants
    I put in an EVO shift link and tested it before I put in the B&M, and the cable connector came off. I too had to turn it 180 degrees so that the the round black plastic keeper held it in place. I thought that was the problem, but your part number threw me off because it is for something else.
  13. Tool Pants
    Nope. You need to release the clips from the inside of the cover. You cannot see let alone release these clips from outside the cover. Once the cover is off it takes seconds to release the clips from inside the cover and remove the grills. I put a yellow line to the clips. The base Boxster is the same. Have not tried yet to get the grills out of a 2003/4.
  14. Tool Pants
    You have to remove the bumper cover to get the grills out.
  15. Tool Pants
    Is it this part or something that looks like it? In this picture I have lifted it up with a thin blade - normally it is seated and flush.
  16. Tool Pants
    I cannot figure out what part(s) you are talking about.
  17. Tool Pants
    There is a work on cars day January 15th in San Jose. Keys will be there. Look at the section on this board for the details.
  18. Tool Pants
    Try 996 424 983 00.
  19. Tool Pants
    There is a work on cars day the 15th. Bring your new belts and we will show you how to put them in. Just make sure the retractor is for your year.
  20. Tool Pants
    Sure, toss the seats and the roll bar in the GT3 and drive the GT3 over to Henry's. Then we all get to take it for a spin. We'll put Alex down for a definite maybe on the roll bar install. But he and Loren said they are a pain to install because the bolt holes do not line up all the time and you have to cut interior trim pieces. I think it would be easier if you lower the top and then we can drop the rool bar in in, or is that on a cab. I'll bring my sawsall and some carbide blades just in case we need to cut the roof off, and a BFH to get the bolt holes to line up.
  21. Tool Pants
    I was a history major so take this with a grain of salt. Anti freeze is to keep water from freezing, and it has chemicals for rust prevention and lubricating rubber seals. I don't think anti freeze makes your engine run cooler. I have in the back of my mind that 100% water transfers heat better than a 50/50 mix, but you add anti freeze for the reasons stated. So if I am correct, putting straight anti freeze or a mixture or straight water in a tire is not going to do anything about the heat inside a tire, unless you also have an external radiator to dissipate heat from the liquid. Whatever liquid in the tire would be the same temp as the air in the tire. That is my history logic.
  22. Tool Pants
    This is what I use for rotors. Technically it is not correct because a brake mic has pointed anvils.
  23. Tool Pants
    The coolant container use to have Elf on it then Arteco, due to name change. Now the only name on it is Porsche. Arteco is a joint venture b/w Texaco and the euro chemical company Elf that was entered into in 1998 according to their website. I asked US Chevron/Texaco several years ago if I could buy an equal product at any normal car parts place. Chevron contaced europe. Havoline and Chevron Dex-Cool extended life meets the requirements of Porsche but "are not yet approved." This is the email response I received. "Subject: RE: Coolant for Porsche Boxster Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 06:07:47 -0700 From: "Dusing, William N" To: "'Jeff Lopez'" Jeff, The ChevronTexaco products in the US that meet the performance requirements of Porsche, but not yet approved are as follows: Havoline® DEX-COOL® Extended Life Anti-Freeze/Coolant Chevron DEX-COOL® Extended Life Antifreeze/Coolant Hope this helps! Thanks, Bill" Like Porsche is ever going to approve something something I can buy at any parts place for a fraction of the cost. I am on one of the UK Boxster boards. In the UK Mobil sells a coolant approved by Porsche. Do not think Mobil sells coolant in the US. Guess Mobil got the approval because they already pay Porsche for the Mobil 1 sticker under the rear lid. :rolleyes:
  24. Tool Pants
    With the VIN any dealer can check the computer for work done under warranty, as that is shared with all dealers. For service work, like an oil change, that is not shared so you need to know which dealer worked on the car for the history. Some dealers will not give you any info if you were not the customer, others will, and others want the authorization of the owner who owned the car at the time the work was done if it is you requesting the info. It varies.
  25. Tool Pants
    Any year can have problems. You take a risk if there is no warranty. The rear seal leaking oil seems to be a big issue on some cars. You can check yourself by getting under the engine where it bolts to the transmission and see if there is any oil.
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