Stijn!!

[Porsche-poor]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Golly more fun with toilets!

This morning after my morning pee, I lowered the seat as is required in the inside toilets. The hinges let go and the seat was just in my hand. Oh goodie. No chance to find the same hinges, so all new seat is procured, and the boss's wife picked it out.

Every toilet seat I have ever seen has an large Phillips head on the top of the seat hinge under a cap. This one she decided we had to have metal hinges. So it has a stud to screw into the hinge, and plastic clip, then a long nut that clamps it from the bottom. It sure is fun to lay on the floor looking up, trying to start a plastic nut with no real room to maneuver. And of course our bowl has a shape that makes getting a socket on it impossible. So 1/4 turn at a time with an open end 13 mm. The other side was easy, the socket goes on and zip it is done.

That chore is done.

Could have been worse. It might have needed the dreaded missing 10mm wrench or socket.

[Noah930]

Originally Posted by Porsche-poor

I determined long ago after buying a targa I was a weather God. I can simply think about driving it and it will rain. Leave it in the garage and everyone but me has fun in the sun.

I have similar superpowers with investing in the stock market. And voting for political candidates. I think only once have I ever voted for the winning candidate.

[GH85Carrera]

I have all my 10mm sockets, even the one in the set I bought in 1971. Never lost one, except the tool set I foolishly let someone borrow. It came back with no 10mm. I knew better.

[GH85Carrera]

I just had to post this here. It truly did make me laugh out loud. It still makes me giggle.

[flipper35]

Sine it has been a while, anyone hungry?

The Sneeze - Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.

[GH85Carrera]

I did get to drop off my 911 seat to the upholsterer today. I get to go back tomorrow morning and see it naked and see if the motor or the connections are the issue.

It was interesting trip down to that part of town. It is the area that was the original working man's area and not far from the stockyards and in an very industrial area. Now it is mostly the Mexican part of town. He is for sure busy, and had lots of cars there.

[RKDinOKC]

That is were I had the custom 928 x-pipe made.
Pretty sure it made 400 rwhp. Good for a 5.4 liter.

It is gone now. Cant drive a manual in anger any more anyway.

Stroke has removed my ability to drive in anger.

Since am disabled and no drug testing. figure all I got left is hookers and blow. Getting the visitors pole installed next month.

[GH85Carrera]

Hopefully he will call this morning and I will go down and test the motor and see if it is dead or just a bad connection. We do have a club breakfast and an autocross this weekend. I hope to get it back and and working my Tomorrow.

[RKDinOKC]

A bad motor would not make a good enough story to miss an Autocross, well, unless the seat randomly moves. That would be chalenging,

[GH85Carrera]

If the seat has no leather on it, I am not gonna sit on it.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Wish I had a video camera today.

In the parking lot across from my window, a group of people decided to sit outside for a safe social distancing outdoor meeting. They sat in a circle, with the team leader reading notes from a binder. It had all the looks of a group therapy meeting of some sort. Very reminiscent of the group meetings by nurse ratchet? in One flew over the cuckoos nest.

At that moment, a group of landscapers pulled up with their leafblowers and let loose to clean the parking lot. The flying debri and two stroke whine was deafening. They surrounded the group and cleaned the lot in short order. Crap/ dirt/ leaves were flying everywhere.

The team leader tried her best to keep composure and ignore their presence.

[GH85Carrera]

Funny to watch as an outsider. I bet the group and the leader all hated it. ^^^^

Welp, the 911 seat will now recline. The motor was fine, as I expected. It is of course a DC motor with a blue and a black wire. The black wire had a cut in it, and I can only guess is somehow it got under the seat rail and got pinched. That or the CIA broke in, using extraterrestrial technology and cut it just to be mean to me.

The outer plastic sleeve had no sign of a cut or damage, so it is a mystery. Anyway if I was smart I could have just opened up the covering sheath about a foot and found the problem and not had to mess with the expense and time of the upholsterer. But first I would have to be smart.

It is weird the plastic covering for the two wires had no marks or indication it was damaged.

The wire is fixed, and if I apply 12 volts the motor runs. So just two more 40 mile round trips and some money to get it back with leather. Then 4 difficult little Allen bolts to get back in and some connections and I will have a 911 fixed and it will recline!


The offending wire.



The naked seat back.

The motor is up inside the grey headrest part on the right. In the bottom photo about where is curves back away is the area where the wire was broken. It had some bends in the plastic after 35 years but no breaks.

[GH85Carrera]

I started looking at my old photos of my seat.



That break was right at the red arrow. There is a zip tie holding the two wires up off the ground and tucked away. There was no break or damage to the black wire. Total mystery how it broke.

The annoying news is if I had just cut open that sheath I could have fixed it without taking the seat apart. (Long string of expletives goes here).

[Porsche-poor]

Always fun playing with wires.

[porsche4life]

Glen that kink in the outer sheath is likely what broke the insulation. I’d cut all that off, repair the wire and then put heat shrink over both wires and then make sure they are routed with smoother sweeps in any bends. Old brittle wire that bounces around is likely to a break when bent sharp like that.

[RKDinOKC]

Wire wire pants on fire?

[GH85Carrera]

I removed all the heavy plastic sheath except in the area that is it tied down against the cable that goes to the transmission for the seat. That is buried in the bolster on the side of the seat, and up into the headrest. No flexing in there, and it is zip tied down like the factory did it. I was happy to use some of the heat shrink tubing I have that is a 4 foot piece. All the wiring under the seat is now just covered in heat shrink only.

It just seems strange that the wire was cut through the insulation, and through the copper wire. It only has low 12 volts going through it when the seat is being moved when the switch is pressed.

[tcar]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Wire wire pants on fire?

Hah Post of the week!

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by RKDinOKC

Wire wire pants on fire?

That is why I don't have seat heaters in the 911!

When I was having my seat leather replaced several years ago I investigated seat heaters. They were an option for my car, and all it would take is the extra switch on the side of the seat, and the heating pads and some wires.

Then I though about the heater in the 911. That heater can bring the car from frozen to HOT in no time. In the winter I am wearing jeans and a coat, and it just seemed pointless. My wife's Macan has heated seats front and back. I don't use that, but I do use the air conditioned seats.

[GH85Carrera]

Whooo Hoooo, success.

I now have a 911 seat that has a seat back recline working as designed.

I took it for a quick test drive and the speedometer was showing no speed and of course the odometer was non functional. That idiot worthless mechanic that replaced the instrument bulbs with the LED bulbs managed to knock the electrical connector off. So I had to fix that was well. I know one thing for certain, I am NOT gonna pay him for the bulb replacement! Of course I have not paid that moron anything at all, ever for working on my cars. I just buy him a couple of beers and he calls it even.

The good news is getting the Speedo out and pushing on the connector is pretty quick and easy.