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Certified Porsche addict
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: On a winding, hilly road in Tennessee.
Posts: 1,238
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Crappy tank
I identified about 5 pin holes in the bottom "sump" of the fuel tank. Internal corrosion. Pulled the internal pump and it's toast. It's been repair once with soldered leads and one broken. I sprayed a can of brake cleaner in the opening of the tank one blast at a time, followed by shop towels in there to soak up the junk. Then I sanded the bottom surface, cleaned well and applied a thick coat of JB Weld. This is a temporary fix for testing in the garage. I figure that sometime in the future I'll have to drop the transmission for a clutch job and I'll drop the tank at that time. I also scraped out up all the body filler in the battery tray. I'll have to drop the AC unit to do a proper sheet metal patch so I'll put that on the back burner for now as I don't like leaving those AC lines open.
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Tennessee Region SCCA & PCA
Current projects - '87 944 Turbo, '87 924S, '82 931, '10 Boxster (the girlfriend)
Past projects - '83 944, '02 Boxster (x2), '99 Boxster, '14 Cayman,'72 Opel GT, '75 280Z, '90 300ZX, '87 944S, '87 944 Turbo, '88 924S (x2), '07 Cayman S, '73 914, '88 MR2 AW11
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