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Originally Posted by kkinzli
Hi Jeremy!
Glad to see that you have a thread going! I will be following it closely and I am excited to see what you end up doing with the car. My brother just moved to Tampa and I am probably going to be up there fairly frequently so maybe I can come by and see your "boxster"! I am hoping to take the fenders, rear deck lid, and rear bumpers for blasting today so that I can post some progress on the "Rat" thread. Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Kristoph
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Hey Kristoph! Thanks for the post.
Yes, I saw you mentioned taking parts for blasting... let us know how it comes out. My neighbor, fellow Pelicaner jbizzle78, had way too much aircraft stripper left over from his '71 project and passed it on to me. I think I'll be going that path for the exterior panels. Probably going to have the tub blasted, though.
Send me a PM when you head my way and I'll give you directions to our shop. We recently purchased a beater garage fridge and it has a disproportionate amount of beer to water right now
Maybe you can stop by and have a couple.
Today I am going to hi-jack my own thread for a post... I was hoping to check in today to report progress on the 911, but I spent yesterday working on my wife's Volvo. It had developed a condition where the air conditioning would intermittently cut out for 5 to 10 minutes at a time... this is bad in FL in August. Turns out the AC compressor clutch was worn and would not always engage when the car/ambient temperature was hot. Fortunately, it was adjustable by removing shims between the clutch and compressor. I did all the work with the compressor still in place and found that by removing the front bumper I had plenty of access to it. I took a picture and posted on my wife's FB page yesterday... more as a joke:
In this next pic, you can see the shims that space the clutch off of the compressor in the middle of the splined hole. By removing some of these, it is possible to bring the gap back into tolerance:
Finally, it fits back onto the compressor here:
I still had a little time to work on the 911 when I finished but wound up kicking tires with my dad and brother, who along with fellow Pelican jbizzle78, share an industrial warehouse "mancave" we call the Gorilla Garage (after its former tenant). Here is a picture of the space taken by jbizzle78 the other day from the loft:
You can see my pearl white beauty in pretty much the same state as my posts from last weekend. The Signal Orange is a 71T and is owned, along with the 993 but jbizzle78. The black Carrera is my dad's, a recent acquisition through Pelican. It is an '89 3.2 w/G50 and is a pretty sweet ride.
I'll be back at my project this week. I'm down to (still) cables and wiring harness to remove from the inside. I have the harness to the point that it just needs to come out of the tunnel. Can anyone recommend the best way to do this? It appears to run through a metal tube inside of the tunnel and I was planning to attach a chase wire to it to ease with reassembly at a later date. I'm running into a problem in that is doesn't want to come out. I'm afraid there may be other leads branching of it that I have missed. Are there any components with electrical connections that attach in or near the tunnel? Finally, it looks like it should come out from the back end. Does this sound right? I checked the shop manual but didn't see instructions on the removal/installation of the wiring harness... but I may have missed it.
Well, I have wasted 5 good minutes of your time this afternoon. Thanks for reading and your comments in advance.
Cheers!