06-30-2009, 10:42 PM
So my "new" 968 arrived in Ft Worth, TX from CA at 1:30 p.m..
DAY 1: By 2:00 p.m. I was stuck in the middle lane on a somewhat busy road. Pushed the car into a parking lot with a little help and opened the hood. Missing a belt! I crossed my fingers and looked closer, and to my great relief the timing belt was fine, just the alt/comp belt gone. I was only a mile from my shop (wood-shop) and grabbed the tool bag and a small floor jack. 20 min later had the new belts on and off I went. later inspection reveled several thing that needed attention.
Day 2: Lets see, rear hatch wont open, sun roof wont close, no power seats. Took my laptop out to the car (in my drive way) and did searches for each problem on this forum. Seat was unplugged, removed the seat from floor plugged it all back in, problem solved.
The rear hatch was a job, after getting in the fetal position, pulling on the wire and finessing the hatch it finally came free. Loosened up the lock block assemblies and closed again, then tightened back up. Works great.
The sun roof, well thank you guys for all the posts, the wire was all wadded up in the hole under the motor. one of the gears was devoid of teeth and the other cracked. Installed the new gears and reset the wire and arms. And reset, and reset and closer, reset. It now works just right!
Later that evening I loaded up the wife and 2 kids and went for a drive, smiling big the whole way! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Thank you to everyone on here that had posted the how-to' on this site, would have taken a lot longer to do all this stuff but I took my time, read everything, including everybody's 2 cents worth, and had a good time doing it.
Thank you.
DAY 1: By 2:00 p.m. I was stuck in the middle lane on a somewhat busy road. Pushed the car into a parking lot with a little help and opened the hood. Missing a belt! I crossed my fingers and looked closer, and to my great relief the timing belt was fine, just the alt/comp belt gone. I was only a mile from my shop (wood-shop) and grabbed the tool bag and a small floor jack. 20 min later had the new belts on and off I went. later inspection reveled several thing that needed attention.
Day 2: Lets see, rear hatch wont open, sun roof wont close, no power seats. Took my laptop out to the car (in my drive way) and did searches for each problem on this forum. Seat was unplugged, removed the seat from floor plugged it all back in, problem solved.
The rear hatch was a job, after getting in the fetal position, pulling on the wire and finessing the hatch it finally came free. Loosened up the lock block assemblies and closed again, then tightened back up. Works great.
The sun roof, well thank you guys for all the posts, the wire was all wadded up in the hole under the motor. one of the gears was devoid of teeth and the other cracked. Installed the new gears and reset the wire and arms. And reset, and reset and closer, reset. It now works just right!
Later that evening I loaded up the wife and 2 kids and went for a drive, smiling big the whole way! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img]
Thank you to everyone on here that had posted the how-to' on this site, would have taken a lot longer to do all this stuff but I took my time, read everything, including everybody's 2 cents worth, and had a good time doing it.
Thank you.
(This post was last modified: 06-30-2009, 10:42 PM by wmuldowney.)
