scam75
Well-known member
Evening all
Had noticed my box a bit more chattery at idle, which can come and go, then noticed slight whine not present before. Couldn't see a leak around the usual suspect low end of the cooler so just topped up the oil. Took a litre and still wasn't full. Hmm. Took it for a spin, whine away, then back quite soon. Inspected in better light to find cooler loop snapped at the bracket. Bugger. This is not Porsche's finest design achievement made worse by lowered car. 4 times this has happened now. It's over £500 from OPC so checked the usual breakers. Very rare beast, nothing doing. Eventually stumbled across a chap in an engineering place that can weld aluminium. £100 later fixed, pressure tested and as good as new!
Whilst underneath noticed I had a knackered inner CV gator and the opposing inner one had shed its metal fastener. Both now fixed but had to remove driveshaft completely to remove CV joint and replace the boot. Very messy business!
Anyway, reassembled it all, filled box with fresh oil, ran, topped up. Dropped car down and all noises now away, even the idle chatter. Result. I've said this before but these boxes are extremely tough and well built. I'm on 150k miles now, box completely original, ran dry with snapped cooler 4 times, and the thing is still perfect with a silky smooth gear change!
It also kept me out the pub on Saturday night so my liver benefited also!
Stuart
Had noticed my box a bit more chattery at idle, which can come and go, then noticed slight whine not present before. Couldn't see a leak around the usual suspect low end of the cooler so just topped up the oil. Took a litre and still wasn't full. Hmm. Took it for a spin, whine away, then back quite soon. Inspected in better light to find cooler loop snapped at the bracket. Bugger. This is not Porsche's finest design achievement made worse by lowered car. 4 times this has happened now. It's over £500 from OPC so checked the usual breakers. Very rare beast, nothing doing. Eventually stumbled across a chap in an engineering place that can weld aluminium. £100 later fixed, pressure tested and as good as new!
Whilst underneath noticed I had a knackered inner CV gator and the opposing inner one had shed its metal fastener. Both now fixed but had to remove driveshaft completely to remove CV joint and replace the boot. Very messy business!
Anyway, reassembled it all, filled box with fresh oil, ran, topped up. Dropped car down and all noises now away, even the idle chatter. Result. I've said this before but these boxes are extremely tough and well built. I'm on 150k miles now, box completely original, ran dry with snapped cooler 4 times, and the thing is still perfect with a silky smooth gear change!
It also kept me out the pub on Saturday night so my liver benefited also!
Stuart
