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My rebuild keep bringing more problems every time I do anything. Today's crop of horrors: I was replacing my front wheel bearings when I noticed that some clown had replaced two of my front wheel studs with shorter studs from the rear wheel. I am betting it was the same clown who by-passed the water pipes to the turbo. When I tried to fix the issue, I found out why - the thread in the water jacket where the pipes fit is stripped. So now I need to remove the turbo and get the thread helicoiled. Who does this sort of bodging? Why go to all the effort of bypassing the water jacket when all it needed was a helicoil?

944s are great cars, but seem to have a really bad habit of finding cheapskate owners who will cut any corner. Does anyone know what thread the water jacket fittings have on a K26 turbo?

Sorry to say that its not just owners who inflict that sort of bodge on cars. None on either of my Porsche that I have found luckily.

A pretty common one is the grinding down of new brake pads to get round the plate lift problem on calipers - if I ever found that my blood would boil!

Plenty discovered on 'older' cars run on the cheap by my student son and daughter. Pretty sure that the horrors were workarounds dishonestly done by garages on unsuspecting previous owners - to either save time/effort or to hide poor workmanship (striped threads being the most common). Now some 'solutions' are ingenious ways of getting out of a big problem, normally a temporary fix until things can be returned to spec, its the ones done on the sly or when the owner is in no position to understand the implications (if they are told at all) that I hate!

Cheers

Rob