What Did You Do to Your 911 Today?

[GeorgeK]

GeorgeK
That’s an impressive kit for brake lines...
Where did you get that !
I/we admire your ambition.
Please show some finished lines

Hazet ftw!

https://www.hazet.de/de/produkte/spe...SH-12K&c=23734

I have to re-make every line in the '69 and in the beetle.

[Theunz]

Learned a hard lesson about changing #6 spark plug. DON’T let your extension slip into the hole. While removing the plug socket and extension, after reinstalling the plug, the extension came off the socket and then simultaneously slipped off the ratchet. That area above the oil cooler is cavernous and unwilling to relinquish anything it swallows. It took about 20 minutes and an arsenal of tools to retrieve it. It was actually a short 1/2” extension and a 1/2 to 1/2 adapter that fell into the hole. I immediately taped everything together before I proceeded

[Bullethead]

Sorry for your tribulations... but you're doing it wrong. Use a rubber-ring plug socket.

[Theunz]

I WAS using a plug socket with the rubber insert, that’s was caused everything to separate. When I tried to pull the socket off the plug it stuck. That caused the extension to pull away from the socket and the ratchet at the same time.

[edmayo]

Use magnetic plug socket, they release from the plug easier.

[Theunz]

Thanks Ed, that’s a great idea! I didn’t know that they even existed. I’m still using the sockets that I bought in 1970. With modern cars not needing plug changes until 100,000 miles one just doesn’t keep up with spark plug socket technology

[John Straub]

Working in the trunk today.... Got some new zip-ties

John

[raspritz]

This is from Saturday. PCA Club Race at Summit Point, almost 2000 miles from home. Broke an axle on my '67 911. We were already packing up for the sad trip home when Fred Pfeiffer introduced me to Dave Coleman. Dave drove me out to his home and shop deep in the woods (Dave was the one who made reference to 'Deliverance', not me), rummaged in a railroad container for a half-shaft, lent me tools, and I spent Saturday night on my back on the cold ground under the car installing the axle by flashlight. Success! I raced on Sunday! Hats off to Dave Coleman, a true mensch.

[kaufmanp]

My '73 911 is a little bit a further advanced than this photo shows now.
and 3 years after starting this project, and after approx. 250 hours of bodywork repairs, I took it to the painters yesterday..

[Jim Breazeale]

Thanks Ed, that’s a great idea! I didn’t know that they even existed. I’m still using the sockets that I bought in 1970. With modern cars not needing plug changes until 100,000 miles one just doesn’t keep up with spark plug socket technology

Plug sockets with rubber inserts are just plain awful. Magnetic plug sockets are a bit better but nothing compares to the plug socket in my pictures. Ed, I'm surprised that you don't have one of these. They have been around for 2 or 2 decades and very few people know about them. They aren't cheap, but worth every penny. They have a little ball retainer much like a ratchet or extension but work much better than a magnet. They hold the plug with just the perfect amount of tension and wont pull of the end of an extension, either.
I know of no one that has tried one of these and not gone out and bought one.

Jim
PS:Ed, I would be happy to send you mine for a trial run. You can send it back after buying your own.