My first tech question...

dd74 · 09-06-2008, 11:29 PM

It was May 2002. I picked up a bump steer kit from Pelican Part's old location in El Segundo. The guy at the sales counter (it wasn't Wayne), suggested I join the Pelican Parts Community Site. I was like, "And talk to a bunch a guys about Porsches? How dull..."

Anyway, I remember one of my first questions here - something about the CIS pop-off valve and why mine blows off with a backfire. (Or maybe that was someone else's question and I just think of it as my own).

Anyway, I'm on my third engine since then, second full suspension change, third pair of seats, second rear wing, fifth exhaust system, second this and fourth that, etc...

slodave · slodave's Garage

October 2005, asking whether to install front strut brace or Targa body brace. These days, I have a triangulated front strut brace and triangulated harness bar.

speeder · speeder's Garage

June of 2001, can't remember the question, though. Is there a way to search for someone's first post?

slodave · slodave's Garage

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Originally Posted by speeder

June of 2001, can't remember the question, though. Is there a way to search for someone's first post?

This it?

Optimum 911 oil temp?

svandamme · svandamme's Garage

bought my 911S, didn't know eff all, bought the book, found there was a forum... and i think my first tech question was , look, bought this car, and i starts like a pig if it sat for longer then 3 days...any ideas?

it all went down hill from there... taking the car apart... financial downfall... and ultimately discovering OT cause i was bored and had no money to go out to the pub and socialise with real life people anymore...

azasadny · azasadny's Garage

My first post was a starting problem with my '74 that I bought in late June, 2002.

speeder · speeder's Garage

Quote:

Originally Posted by slodave

This it?

Optimum 911 oil temp?

That would be it. Sigh...what this board was in those days, check out Roland's response. He was an absolute Porsche god, RIP.

So how'd you do that? (Pull up my first thread).

Christien · Christien's Garage

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Originally Posted by speeder

So how'd you do that? (Pull up my first thread).

Click on your name in this thread, click "view public profile", click the statistics tab, then "find all threads started by". When I click "find all posts by" it maxes out at 20 pages for some reason, but I've only got 9 pages worth of threads I've actually started. Seeing as you've got almost 4x the posts I do, your thread search might also max out at 20 pages - not sure how to get around that.

Neat to see my first tech problem. Broken brake light switch and the brake pedal, and here I was trying to read wiring diagrams! I still can't read those damn things to save my life, but I've learned to replace the flimsy brake light switch, by doing it several times!

island911 · 09-07-2008, 08:52 AM

Ha! Great thread dd.

It turns out my first post was on Jack Olsen sheepishly asking about where to find vintage posters --Of course Jack was just setting us up to see HIS "vintage" poster --take a look; Classic JO: Anybody got any good Porsche poster sources?

good times.

Tishabet · 08:59 AM

October '03, I couldn't get the pins out of my brake calipers as they were seized into place!
Brake retaining pins won't budge...

RIP SoCal Driver!

911boost · 911boost's Garage

February of 2002. I asked about the color combination of my 86 cab.

Supe was the first to respond, I should be nicer to him.

Bill

Zeke · 09-07-2008, 09:28 AM

I could get back to 11/02 with some manipulation, but not back to my first post of 01/02. That would have been on the 914 BBS.

MAS956 · 09-07-2008, 10:16 AM

Earliest post I could find was 07/01/2001: Green Distributor Wire/Plug on '82SC

Question was answered with no nonsense advice from early board stalwarts like Warren (RIP) and John Walker (who actually sent me the piece I needed FOC).

Oh the good old days. Seems like the signal-to-noise ratio has significant gone down over the years.

Hugh R · 09-07-2008, 10:30 AM

Some time in May, 2003, my first search was on the automatic heat which didn't work. I looked at the wiring diagram and said to my self "This is gonna suck bigtime". I entered automatic search and the first thing that came up was that it had a plastic ball and socket inside the box between the seats that can pop off. I said to myself "No effiing way!). Pulled off the cover, popped the socket back on the ball and said this Pelican Parts forum is a good thing.

I think my first post was concerning gasoline in Las Vegas and I posted that all the SoCal refiners put it in the Cal-Nev pipeline out in Colton and they divvy it up at the other end and put their own additives in at the other end.