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  1. Tool Pants
    If the car is too low we have one guy lift on the fender and the other guy slides the jack. Or you can just drive up on a piece of wood.
  2. Tool Pants
    Just above your DSP you have a storage bin or the tape or cd storage shelf - 'the spot.' Your radio is just above the spot. Neither the cupholders or radio will fit in the spot as the spot too small. The spots for the radio and heater controls are larger because they are DIN sized.
  3. Tool Pants
    Most stereo shops or a Porsche dealer should have them. I think they are also used by Mercedes. Jeff http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?s...st=0entry3135
  4. Tool Pants
    The check engine light is for issues with the emission system, and it does not know if the car has taken a hit. Other than owner neglect (like the gas and oil caps and stick) the most common is oxygen or air flow sensor. I take it you replaced the oem paper filter at 45K. Did you vacume any junk out of the air box? Do not know what year you have but 1998 to I think 2001 had a recall for the gas cap. See if you have the recall sticker under the rear trunk. I would just drive it and see if the light goes out if you do not want to disconnect the battery. Jeff
  5. Tool Pants
    From time to time we will set up a work on cars day so you can work on your car with the help of others. This is the place to post your projects. When there is enough interest and a place to work we can schedule a date and take things apart. Who will have the first project for 2004? Jeff
  6. Tool Pants
    No way to know why it when on without knowing the fault code. Autozone will read your codes for free I hear. Make sure the dip stick is seated. It is true about the oil and gas caps. If the fault is not detected again after a number of drive cycles the light will go out. If you cannot wait then disconnect your battery and the light will go out. Jeff
  7. Tool Pants
    I have not done it on a Boxster. I sure did a lot of them on my 2 Fiat X1/9s as they had a poor seal design which permitted water to get into the bearing and wash the grease out. I went over to Pelican and the 914 has the same type of wheel bearing as the Boxster and Fiat. One piece with 2 rows of ball bearings. In my poor student days on my Fiat I would remove the wheel hub housing and take it to a shop so they could press out the hub, bearing, and press in the new bearing. Then I bought the tools so I could do it myself on a work bench in a vise. It is the same way in the Boxster shop manual. They show a hydraulic press with adapters to take it apart and to press in the new bearing. They do say you need to heat the housing to get the old bearing out and the new bearing in. The Fiat shop manual said the same thing but the bearing was never that tight of a fit. The wheel bearings are known to fail on a Boxster - more so on cars that have been tracked. Does it make noise on turns is my test. If you can do it on a 914 you can do it on a Boxster. Pull the housing and take it to a machine shop with a new bearing. Jeff Boxster bearing. 914 bearing with grease seal removed.
  8. Tool Pants
    Rear bumper only. Do not know of a factory retrofit kit. Holes are drilled in the cover for the sensors. You would have to buy all the parts and figure out how to hook it up. There are aftermarket kits. This is what was done on the German Boxster board. http://stau.jowood.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=283
  9. Tool Pants
    Need to see a picture of the front and back of the air bag unit.
  10. Tool Pants
    Remove the battery clamp and slide the battery over to the passenger side. Behind the battery you will see a large rubber plug. Stick an ice pick in the middle of the plug. Then from inside the car look above the gas pedal. That is how we run the cd changer cable. Jeff
  11. Tool Pants
    You had me confused as I could not understand why you needed to know how to remove the lever assembly when your picture shows it out of the car. That is the one you want to put in. Right? You must have alreafdy removed the 3 plastic plugs. Behind each plug - burried deep - is an allen bolt. 5mm if I remember correctly. You unscrew each allen bolt just a few turns - no need to take them all the way out. You need a long allen wrench. I used the standard L shaped one. The allen bit on my 3/8" socket was not long enough. The seat was out when we did it. After you undo each allen screw it will still take some effort to pull the assembly up. When you put the new one in make sure the bent wire thing goes into the white plastic thing. The white plastic thing is hooked up to the solenoid that locks the levers.
  12. Tool Pants
    Have no idea what a 3 spoke cover is. Have him send you a picture of this cover and post it here. I guess he could have taken the air bag itself out of the unit but that would be a strange thing to do. The air bag on a 4 spoke is different than a 3 spoke. Jeff
  13. Tool Pants
    Not that I know of. You could always try disconnect the battery thing. Jeff
  14. Tool Pants
    The 4 pin connector Pete talks about is for the cell phone. This picture is a 2003 and you can see Porsche now put a piece of tape on the connector so it will not short out. If the car now works you might want to use a piece of tape.
  15. Tool Pants
    The relay tray is above the fuse box. The yellow line goes to the relay for the seats - it is the socket numbered 18 but you are no going to be able to see the numbers unless you pull the tray out. The 4 relays just to the right are for the radiator fans. Those 4 relays are identical to the seat relay. So swap 1 of the fan relays for the seat relay and you will have your answer. Jeff
  16. Tool Pants
    It is very easy on a Boxster as the top design is simple compared to a 996. Remove the relay and bend over pin 18 to defeat the speed signal. Ground pin 15 to eliminate the need to pull up on the brake lever. This Boxster owner modified the top relay and put in an internal switch. Hard for me to understand as his native language is German. Jeff http://www.boix.de/Technische_Info_eng.htm
  17. Tool Pants
    The Porsche CDC-3 is identical to the Becker 2660. We buy and put in the Becker unit as it is about 1/2 the price of the Porsche unit. The problem is Becker has discontinued the 2660 and replaced it with the 7860. The 7860 has different dimensions then the 2600/CDC-3 so it is not a direct fit on the factory mounting bracket. A year ago Continental told me they were making an adapter so the 7860 would mount on the factory bracket for a Boxster C2. If there is a adapter then I assume it will work with a AWD. If you do not care about using the factory mounting bracket then the 7860 comes with a universal bracket. If you want to stay with the original CDC-3 then Porsche still sells it. Or you could check with Becker and see if they have any refurbished 2660 units left. I always see both units (used) on ebay. My Boxster friend in San Jose turned in his leased car and removed the 2660 unit from his car if you are interested. He has the harness and mounting bracket but the Boxster/C2 bracket is different than a AWD. Takes about an hour to put it in. You bring the beer. Jeff
  18. Tool Pants
    http://www.pca.org/tech/tech_qa_question.a...8-138BB14175F9} Let me know if this is what it turns out to be. Starting in 2003 Porsche put a piece of duct tape over the cell phone connector. Jeff
  19. Tool Pants
    No one knows as it never made it into production. The drawing is from the 1997 Boxster tech intro booklet that was printed in 1996. The same drawing is in the 1998 996 tech intro booklet that I bought from England as the US did not have a MY98 996. It is not even in the same place on our trunk lids. The oldest US car I have seen is a Boxster that was made in 1996 and it did not have it. I asked on the German Boxster board and they did not know what it was intended for. http://stau.jowood.de/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1708
  20. Tool Pants
    When Porsche jacked the price of the connector (housing and cover) up to almost $10 I began to buy them from BMW for $2.50. When I tried to order the connector from BMW 2 weeks ago it had been discontinued and superceded to one part number, then another part number, and the BMW parts guy was not sure if or what the new part number was. I ordered what I though it was. I then contacted AMP/Tyco who makes this Euro metric connector. The connector has been superceded and the sale of the connector is restricted to only BMW. I then went to the Porsche parts deparment and there are 0 housings in Germany and only a few in the US. Not a good sign. Today I picked up the connector from BMW I had ordered 2 weeks ago. The housing and cover are now attached together and you buy them under a single part number. It looks different and has a different color but it is a direct replacement. And it cost 88 cents. The OBC hack lives on. Jeff
  21. Tool Pants
    Ok, I will go back to the Boxster side in due time. It did look like a Boxster/996 fuel filter. But what the heck is it doing there, next to a hot motor. At least it does not have plastic lines. Might be time time for pictures of Porsches on fire. My first picture was Josh's GT2. This is an old GT3 Loren and I saw at Rennwerks.
  22. Tool Pants
    Do not know anything about flank drive "plus." Hope it is not a gimmick or I will have to buy $some. Tools, like most things, have become a commidity. http://www.team.net/www/morgan/tech/whotools.html This link is old. I have some of the same tools that are almost identical but have different brand names on them. Next day there is yet another name. Snap-on had the patent or trade name on flank drive. The tool would grip the fastner in the middle of a flat, rather than on a corner. The patent expired years ago. Then other tool companies then started to use this design, but gave it their own name. Unless you want to be a professional mechanic who make a living with tools...... there is no reason to spend the money. I did not like Craftsman since they are clunky and do not feel good in you hand. The Craftsman professional hand tool line changed my mind and I see some of the tools in a Porsche shop. Guess who makes the tools. Good luck with your choice. Jeff
  23. Tool Pants
    Combination wrenches 8mm-19mm, which is 12 pieces. You can skip 9mm but we use that to bleed the clutch on a Boxster. 11mm is not a common size but we use it for the brake caliper bleed nipples. 12, 14, 15, 16, and 18mm are not common but they do exist but I cannot think of the last time I used it on Boxster/996. I must have use them since they have wear marks from cranking. Jeff
  24. Tool Pants
    I use it to adjust the height of the clamshell/metal tonneau cover to match the height of the fender. It is a wedge that slides back and forth for different heights. There are 2 other ways to adjust the height of the clamshell so do not play with it unless you have to. Jeff
  25. Tool Pants
    It is a support for...... something....... Something round with a brass fiting and what looks like a ground wire, and a flow arrow. I would say a fuel filter but that is not where I think it is supposed to be No idea as I'm a Boxster guy and our engines are not backwards. :P Second picture is from ninerguru's DIYer instructions.
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