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Not my 944, but I stopped in a petrol station (in a boring car) next to a pristine gold A reg 944 with tweed seats, gold cookie cutters, and a lady driver. She was so enthusiastic to tell me everything about her car. She has owned it for 26 of it's 31 years, and covered nearly 500,000 miles!

The only major issue she has had was with some cowboy mechanic who thought it had a timing chain instead of a belt, so subsequently didn't change them! It snapped sometime later, but it was rebuilt properly (suffice to say with a different mechanic) and is clearly still going strong.

Today I was mostly ......


Replacing the lower balance shaft front bearing.

There was a leak from the front which I'd assumed was failure of the seal - wrong. It was a misplaced 'O' ring on the bearing carrier that was allowing vast amounts of oil out of the engine whilst starving the plain bearing of lubrication. End result, messy motor and shagged bearing.

I ordered a new bearing from JMG, then got around to thinking about fitting it. As the shell is a press fit in the housing, I thought about using the new bearing to push the old one out - I thought better of it not wanting to shag another bearing before it was even in the engine so needed to make a tool to get the job done. I found this in my bits of interesting things box:


and after half an hour with an old wood chisel and some coarse sandpaper I managed to make this:



I also found a short length of 10mm studding in my box of interesting things and found a socket that was the right size to slip over the bearing...



A few twists of the spanners and the bearing started to move - it held tight for a while andvI was beginning to think the worst when it let go with a bit of a crack.



A couple more twist and it was out ...



I cleaned up the bearing carrier and ....




Reversed the operation ...





pressing the new one into place.




Now all I need to do is remember where all the fekking belt pulleys go ..!

G

Cleared all the crap from around my car that has accumulated since i last drove her 18months ago.
Put the wheel back on i had removed.
Moved car over by a foot in the garage ready to put the engine back in.
Noticed clutch flexi is leaking,got a new spare one luckily.

Took mine out on the Thames valley Curry run today. thrashed the whatsits out of it and burnt plenty of V Power

and maybe a drop or two of Mobil 1

Took mine out to a local car show today, was aimed at "Dub" stuff put that didn't put me off!

Couple of photos:

[quote="DarrylH"]Took mine out to a local car show today, was aimed at "Dub" stuff put that didn't put me off!

I had a look round yours today,looks very good,i was in my mk1 golf

Parked alongside a Golf GTI (who kindly moved over to make room) at Arundel today and I remarked on his 944 wheels that were fitted to his car, I was in my Quantum turbo so did not mention I was a 944 owner for it would seem a bit tacky.
Is there a law about stretching tyres on rims that are too wide?

Thanks Tim. It's not the cleanest but it's work in progress

You have to love the Germans logic: I ordered some fuel line to under body clamps from OPC. There are 12 on the car, yet they come in packs of 10, so I receive one complete pack and one extra bag with 2 in it. Everything must be metric!

Took the alternator off last night along with the supporting brackets to sand back and polish it all. Decided to only do the 2 sides that are on view as no one is ever going to see under it (plus I did all the work by hand). Went to refit it tonight and realised I'd polished the wrong side - dumb ass!!

Its now polished all the way round and back on adding a bit of shine to the darks spot of the engine bay.

Lowered the rear trailing blades and fitted new SPAX adjustable rear dampers to the 944 - oh and changed the drained the fuel, fit new fuel filter, and spark plugs to the 944...

Spent an hour fitting new wheel bearings & seals to the 924... again but these fit perfectly now!

Spent the last 4 days in Sunny Christchurch as part of my annual pilgrimage to JMG for the Turbos Service/MOT & TLC.
Mechanicals sorted for another year + sills checked & Dynax-s50 treated, had the Front & Precision shift fitted (same throw but now with really smooth & precise changes , superb 222mile drive home last night, weather not so good but the car ran sooooh sweetly, just purring along these sort of drives make me realise what 944 ownership is all about, WELL PLEASED thanks again Jon)

Next on the agenda is the bodywork, after 8 years of ownership a few bits need looking at ie front lower o/s wing & bottom of the doors so :-
Any suggestions for a good body shop greatly appreciated, preferably in Lincolnshire (so I can use my bus pass to get home )
Clive

That sounds like 4 days well spent Clive!

I had the sills on my turbo done by TG Couzins in Stamford - it's Lincolnshire but right on the southern border so maybe too far away from you?

I can certainly recommend them though