Re: What did you do today?
Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 2:09 pm
Yesterday evening I got the tank bolted in. Ended up being more of a palavour than I expected.
Firstly this oil fill pipe (after wrapping in tape) was just refusing to go on. After a lot of oil, it eventually popped on after copious swearing.
For anyone that has to do this and is reading this, firstly I salute you. Secondly undo this pipe clamp in the wheel arch - top right is the brake pipe ferrel for reference.
Then undo this clamp - above the tyre in this picture.
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After spilling a my jug with a litre of coolant in, I did a further top up of coolant to fill the tank up. A quick startup confirmed no major leaks.
Next was replacing the fuel filter. On post facelift cars the fuel filter went to in-tank jobs like most modern cars. Pre-facelift there is a canister type. No record of this filter being changed, especially as the Porsche dealer services don't list the part being changed.
It lives up in the middle of the car. Not a huge amount of access to get it out. Wish I jacked the car up more.
Old filter was date coded 2013, so looks like it has been changed.
After that, just a warm up using the Porsche recommended procedure. Then wheels on, drop car, top engine access cover back on and carpets back in.
Job jobbed.
I dread to think what this all would have cost to get done at a specialist, let alone a Porsche dealer. About £800 in parts and probably 6-8 hours labour minimum. Roughly I reckon it's rads 3 hours for pair, water pump 1 hour, tank 3 hours, coolant change+bleed 0.5 hours and plugs+coils another 1 hour. For me double that as I'm slow and working under stands.
Now time to swap cars around, get it back out of the garage and go for a test drive!
Firstly this oil fill pipe (after wrapping in tape) was just refusing to go on. After a lot of oil, it eventually popped on after copious swearing.
For anyone that has to do this and is reading this, firstly I salute you. Secondly undo this pipe clamp in the wheel arch - top right is the brake pipe ferrel for reference.
Then undo this clamp - above the tyre in this picture.
.
After spilling a my jug with a litre of coolant in, I did a further top up of coolant to fill the tank up. A quick startup confirmed no major leaks.
Next was replacing the fuel filter. On post facelift cars the fuel filter went to in-tank jobs like most modern cars. Pre-facelift there is a canister type. No record of this filter being changed, especially as the Porsche dealer services don't list the part being changed.
It lives up in the middle of the car. Not a huge amount of access to get it out. Wish I jacked the car up more.
Old filter was date coded 2013, so looks like it has been changed.
After that, just a warm up using the Porsche recommended procedure. Then wheels on, drop car, top engine access cover back on and carpets back in.
Job jobbed.
I dread to think what this all would have cost to get done at a specialist, let alone a Porsche dealer. About £800 in parts and probably 6-8 hours labour minimum. Roughly I reckon it's rads 3 hours for pair, water pump 1 hour, tank 3 hours, coolant change+bleed 0.5 hours and plugs+coils another 1 hour. For me double that as I'm slow and working under stands.
Now time to swap cars around, get it back out of the garage and go for a test drive!