<img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/blink.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> Oh that was not a ton of fun!
Replaced the two skirt gaskets and both door handle gaskets, cleaned the calipers, and completely cleaned and waxed the wheels! Yuck! Those wheels were a LOT of hard work. (my arms hurt!)
On the skirt gaskets - first side I tried was the passenger side. All the bolts came off okay, but even with the door panel tool I couldn't get the skirt off. The plastic clips seemed too old to force. I didn't want to break them. So here's what I did - I lubed the gasket and pushed it in place from the top. It really wasn't that hard to do. I had to pry the skirt away to give me room to get the gasket seated, but that worked!
The drivers side was a lot easier. The skirt came off without me feeling like the plastic clips would break. I pryed them loose with a wide flat head screwdriver. Got the skirt off, cleaned it up, put the new gasket on, voila!
Now to the door handles - I borrowed a shop manual and that was no help! The only help was the picture pointing to the bolt to remove. Here's what to do - there's a allen bolt above the door striker. Remove it - then you can slide the door handle forward, then out, then back, and then it came off. The front gasket is easy to replace, but I wasn't about to remove the whole door lock mechanism. So I cut the new rear gasket on the front middle. That enabled me to get the gasket on. The new gasket has little nipples on it to keep it in, so I don't think cutting it will be a problem. Reassembled and looks great.
The drivers door wasn't hard, but the stupid allen bolt that holds the door handle mechanism is stripped a little. It still holds it in place, and I'm not about to buy another handle just for this.
While I had the car up on the jackstands, I checked the front wheels for play, and lo and behold, there's a 'little' clunk play in them. I think the front wheel bearings need to be packed and adjusted. I'll take that on when my hands and arms heal!
When I took the wheels off, they were definitely not torqued to 95ft.lbs., but they are now! I even painted the lug nuts!
Oh yea, I had my local Porsche shop (Jones Autowerks) order the parts. Had them in two days. The skirt gaskets were $18 each and the door handle gaskets were $2.50 each.
And one other thing, I had to reseal the tail lights the other day. Whoever repainted the car didn't put any seal in. I used a semi-thin bead of dum-dum and sealed them up.
So, only thing left is to re-pack and adjust the front wheel bearings... <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />
