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Did some more Porsche related work today - not on my car though!
Picked up a set of 968 strut cases from the welder today and set about linishing back the welds for the adaptor sleeves for the B6 inserts ready to take to the powder coaters. Realised too late on that I 'd run out of emery cloth for final finishing- Amazon to the rescue and it will be here tomorrow.

Can you guess? Yep, more destruction of wire brushes in the never-ending quest to clean up the transaxle casing. The super-dooper extra long brushes that I ordered via fleabay have made getting to the deepest recesses finally possible. I used one up already today & think I now have sufficient to get the remainder done.

I did get some paint on a couple of bits today as well - they will never be seen except by anyone working underneath the car but they were decidedly tatty and I have de-rusted, cleaned, primed and top coated them. I am just debating whether or not to apply stone chip them too for added protection......

Yes.

Rattle mitigation: 4 weeks of jacking the thing up and then driving it and then jacking it up and... rinse and repeat.

Finally solved a major, omnipresent rattle which when transmitted to the cabin seemed to be of a plastic/panel/rubber nature which lead me down the wrong garden path.

During lockdown, all the rear shock absorbers on sale for the 944 had a lower hole that would fit M12, except mine is M14. I found a pair for sale (standard Sachs Bilstein) with the M14 hole but they were twice the price so elected to buy the rear shocks with the smaller M12 hole for half the price.
Removed centre metal sleeve from the old one's, removed the rubber and sleeve from the new one's and then made a bush from liquid poly with the old metal centre sleeve.
I always had a gut feeling that there was insufficient poly because of that internal diameter being much bigger. I had used an oversized washer which hid an internal deterioration of the bush. So after a long rigmarole searching and the help of the stuff in boxes underneath the stuff piled on top of the boxes at friendly mechanics garage, found 2 metal bushes with a sleeve and a smaller wall diameter which would allow me to create a meatier poly bush.
With that sorted and looking like it will withstand the rigours of our glorious roads, took the 944 for a spin Friday 14th March. Super quiet drive on the whole, nothing outstandingly noisy.
Drove over something. Some sort of puddle. Some sort of puddle with some sort of liquid in it. Thought nothing of it. Drove x miles before this smell - odd: not petrol, not smouldering wire insulation, not rubbing rubber. Just odd.
Opened the bonnet, looked underneath and found that whatever was in the puddle, was splattered all over the exhaust and was singeing and stinking.
Fine. Shut the bonnet. Shut bonnet again. Won't shut. Spring on bonnet cable and catch assy broke. Drive home at 30mph along an A road for 14 miles with the bonnet secure only by the secondary catch.
Drill rivets out. Fashion a soring. Fit spring. Test bonnet. All working.
Saturday 15th. A few pre-amble checks and perhaps clean up parts of the exhaust wot gets hot and smelly from whatever was in the puddle.
Bonnet won't open.
Snap panel (928 511 173 02) on lhs - bonnet release cable plate. Removed radiator fan and managed to release the bonnet.
Search on ebay - new one's for sale iro £33 plus £15 postage form the USA. 2nd hand iro £23. Thieving sons of flea bitten motherless goats.
Called Porsche Edinburgh. Brand new panel £10.95.

Add 2 inner seals (£14 each), 2 inner bearings (£18 each), 2 outer bearings (also £18 each) for font wheels as the o/s one booms at 65+, add VAT all told £150 including postage.
Now the waiting game and the weather is good...

Seems as if I haven't replaced or refurbished it, it will break. There are diminishing (along with my bank balance) number of 'it's' I keep telling myself.