Back from travels, firing up the 928S
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 3:38 pm
What fun! After traveling the world I'm back and working on the 928S again. When last we checked the engine was making a "squeak" sound in the cold that I didn't have time to fix, so I just got my 87 944S running again and parked the 928.
Started it up today, no squeak or problem. Odd. The oil was still the winter 10-40 so I put it up on the ramps, dumped the old oil, and filled it with 20W50. Only minor problem was after putting in the plug and tightening it hand tight I checked the oil bucket and found the washer.
Crud! Oh well, if it doesn't drip I'll replace it next change this fall, otherwise I'll wait for a cold morning and try to swap it hot. Maybe 50 weight oil will flow more slowly....
Other annoyances: Need to switch back to summer tires, replace the rear tires, and of course the sunroof motor isn't working. Question: Is there a washer under the screw that blocks off the two key depressions the hand crank goes into? Mine is smooth in there, which makes no sense.
Meantime I semi-manually got it open by turning the rubber coupling, then cleared off all the old (hard) lithium grease, Will need to replace with nice clean grease, might have to take the whole panel off I'm not quite sure. It was a pain 10 years ago last time I did it, blah.
Still need to get it to Mr. Merlin sometime when he's free, currently has a cool 100k on the timing belt, no problems.
Started it up today, no squeak or problem. Odd. The oil was still the winter 10-40 so I put it up on the ramps, dumped the old oil, and filled it with 20W50. Only minor problem was after putting in the plug and tightening it hand tight I checked the oil bucket and found the washer.
Crud! Oh well, if it doesn't drip I'll replace it next change this fall, otherwise I'll wait for a cold morning and try to swap it hot. Maybe 50 weight oil will flow more slowly....
Other annoyances: Need to switch back to summer tires, replace the rear tires, and of course the sunroof motor isn't working. Question: Is there a washer under the screw that blocks off the two key depressions the hand crank goes into? Mine is smooth in there, which makes no sense.
Meantime I semi-manually got it open by turning the rubber coupling, then cleared off all the old (hard) lithium grease, Will need to replace with nice clean grease, might have to take the whole panel off I'm not quite sure. It was a pain 10 years ago last time I did it, blah.
Still need to get it to Mr. Merlin sometime when he's free, currently has a cool 100k on the timing belt, no problems.