What did you do to your 924/944/968 today?

andycowman · **Posted:** Sat Mar 23, 2013 9:26 am

I did indeed, the spring tensioner over tightened the cam belt so eased that back a fraction first, also I had the balance belt idler wheel to tight causing some belt whine so eased that back trying to use the credit card trick. Still slight whine on test drive but seems less and less.

One trick I found for the balance belt sprockets was using a section of the old belt wrapped around it with some big grips!

pauly · **Posted:** Sat Mar 23, 2013 10:01 am

Well done. I've often wondered if the tensioner tools take into account the timing belt getting tighter as the head/block expands. I think this is what knocks out some used waterpumps shortly after belt changes. I believe it's possible to use the S2 waterpump with a small clearance job on the block.

Althejazzman · **Posted:** Sat Mar 23, 2013 10:57 am

They must do, which is why the tension must be set on a cold engine.

pauly · **Posted:** Sat Mar 23, 2013 11:29 am

Althejazzman wrote:

They must do, which is why the tension must be set on a cold engine.

Depends if you look into the history of how the tools came into use and take account of 25 years of development on the belts.

Carrera RSR · **Posted:** Sat Mar 23, 2013 1:39 pm

Picked my car up from the paint shop this morning. Now the refit of body parts and engine bay equipage may begin ......

jameso · **Posted:** Sat Mar 23, 2013 4:23 pm

Looking good! Filled the tank with Shell super, had the rear tyres changed. Annoyingly the tyre place used the gear box to jack it up. £350ish lighter I'm about ready for Bedford trackday, just need to remove excess crap from the cabin and pack a spade.

andycowman · **Posted:** Sat Mar 23, 2013 7:26 pm

Blimey that's a full paint job! Looking forward

to seeing the final result! Bedford was my first track day. Good fun :-)

The belt tension does worry me a bit, so will check on It for a while.

andycowman · **Posted:** Sat Mar 23, 2013 7:26 pm

Blimey that's a full paint job! Looking forward

to seeing the final result! Bedford was my first track day. Good fun :-)

The belt tension does worry me a bit, so will check on It for a while.

Carrera RSR · **Posted:** Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:20 pm

Started to rebuild it again after a full body and engine bay repaint. Got the refurbed Fuchs on first, rebuilt the passenger door and fitted adjustable top mounts

nicksonmsport · **Posted:** Sun Mar 24, 2013 7:46 pm

looks awsome mate!

i joined the 924 brigade and got myself a 924 turbo to go with the 944 turbo!

cant wait to get stuck in

Hairyarse · **Posted:** Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:14 pm

Very nice work - I thought it was already finished though?

Carrera RSR · **Posted:** Sun Mar 24, 2013 9:38 pm

Hairyarse wrote:

Very nice work - I thought it was already finished though?

It was. Had some micro blisters on the body, blew the engine early last year so I thought I'd repaint the engine bay whilst its in the body shop/engine being rebuilt. It's like the Forth Road bridge, never finished!

Hairyarse · **Posted:** Sun Mar 24, 2013 10:24 pm

Lol, yes that's true!

Well when it's done you'll have good reason to put some pics up for us all to drool over again

kongsodoken · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2013 8:47 pm

Carrera RSR wrote:

Started to rebuild it again after a full body and engine bay repaint. Got the refurbed Fuchs on first, rebuilt the passenger door and fitted adjustable top mounts

Fantastic work

and a great looking car :mrgreen:

deLUX · **Posted:** Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:13 am

fitted my refreshed front suspension - also made a switch to steel wishbones as you can see:

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