Appendix: Other Projects

The appendix covers some other things I'm doing to the Porsche since it's down.

Numeric Oil Temp Gauge

Pedal Bushing Replacement

Shocks

Factory Shift Kit Update

Brakes

Miscellaneous

 

Numeric Oil Temp Gauge Replacement

I started getting real tired of trying to guess what the oil temp was, so I decided to replace my gauge with one of those numeric jobs. This has to be one of the easiest replacements of anything on the car. I'm not much of a step-by-step type of person, but I'll do my best to describe the procedure to those who may be interested.

  1. Remove Oil Temp/Pressure gauge combo from dash. This is done by pulling on the rim, or, if it doesn't budge, use a thin, dull (not sharp) prying tool to get it started, then pull out by hand.
  2. On the back of the gauge there are several wires connected to the back of the oil temperature gauge. Holding the new gauge in the same orientation as the old, transfer the wires from the old gauge to the new gauge. Set the new gauge aside.
  3. There are four screws holding the oil temperature gauge in the gauge combo. Remove these four screws and pull out the old gauge.
  4. Put the new oil temp. gauge into the gauge combo and replace the screws.
  5. Push the gauge combo back into the dash.
  6. You're done -- except for the sender on the motor. Since I don't have a motor, this will have to wait.

Here's a picture of the new gauge in my car. I can't try it out yet due to no motor, but it looks easy to read.

If anything, the numbers are too big!

You've undoubtedly heard people say the there are calibration marks on the old gauge. I never could see them, but now that it's out, you can.

The markings are in Celsius. From the left, it's 60° , then 90° , then 150° and finally 170° . Which corresponds (in Fahrenheit) to: 140, 194, 302 and 338 respectively (yikes!).

 

 

Pedal Bushing Replacement

There is an excellent article at Pelican Parts on how to do this. I won't add anything to that, except for the fact that getting the pin out is not nearly as bad as they make it sound. Just make sure you take it out the same way it went in. You'll be able to notice some mushrooming on the head of the pin that was pounded in.

Here's what my pedals look like now. If you look close, you can see the bronze bushings in there.

 

 

 

 

 

Miscellaneous Stuff

Here's some pictures of some miscellaneous stuff that I've been working on.

I put in a new brake master cylinder when I did the pedal bushing work. You can see it nestled in there amongst all of the vent ducting and ventilation system cables. It wasn't all that easy to wedge it in there. There's definitely a knack to it.

I was going to clean out the filter in the bottom of the tank. When I looked at the bolt all I could say was, "geez, not another $75 tool!!"

The bolt is about a 22mm or so socket-head.

But, I found that an old fuel filter has exactly the same size of nut, so, using that and a pipe wrench, as shown, I was able to remove the filter in the tank without a problem.

 

 

Yikes! How am I going to get that icky tranny clean?!!

 

More to come later….

 

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