"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
08/27/2016 at 13:42 • Filed to: porsche, 928, problems
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"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
08/27/2016 at 13:42 • Filed to: porsche, 928, problems | 1
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Well I have been working on the 928 some more. This week I have been trying to fix some electrical gremlins which I hear the 928 runs second to lovely British Leland vehicle. That I don’t understand. I mean come on Germany. One of the main issues I have been facing is the gauge pod. Previously only the oil pressure gauge was working, which is nice but not ideal. Personally I would like them all to work. Though I could live with just temp, fuel, and oil pressure. The tach is meaningless in an automatic slush box, volts are not important enough most of the time, and I can use my phone as a speedometer. So I removed the cluster to find something similar to this.
Holy mother of exposed connections. So I cleaned every single contact surface with some emery cloth to get fresh metal. I checked that exposed bulbs and they seemed fine. I then I removed the very fogged and scratched lens and used a head light restoration kit along with some wet sanding and made the lens clear again. Back in the car she went, buttoned all back up and
Yeah..... Well more things work now. The speedo goes back to zero when the engine is on, the lights on the right for the dummy warnings seem to work when I press the cluster check button, and the lights on indicator now comes on. So we are getting some where, but not where I want to go. Oh whats that
Now there is a horribly annoying buzzing noise that come and goes and will stay on when the car is powered off or on. But wiggling the main harness under the dash seems to change the pitch and make it go away eventually.
Yeah... This was a great purchase. Let me just tell you. Just because you can afford the $500 car, doesn’t always mean but the $500 car. But since I don’t even get scam offers on my 928 off CL, I think I am going to turn her into a post apocalyptic rally type thing and just have fun. And one day eventually manual swap it.
TheTurbochargedSquirrel
> CaptDale - is secretly British
08/27/2016 at 13:47 |
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LeMons car. Do it.
Stef Schrader
> CaptDale - is secretly British
08/27/2016 at 13:51 |
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Mmmm what TheTurbochargedSquirrel said. Join us. Join usssss. I do love the post-apocalyptic rally car idea, though. ART CAR! Art car all the things.
Alternately, if it’s too nice for that, have you tried trolling junkyards/Rennlist/eBay/etc. for a new gauge pod? Not sure what they run, but I know the gauges in 70s/80s Porsches were kind of cheap and sad, and tend to break a lot, at least as far as 924/944s go. Because, y’know, plastic components that turn to dust were THE FUTURE and SO LIGHT and TECHNOWONDERFUL. Haha.
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CaptDale - is secretly British
> TheTurbochargedSquirrel
08/27/2016 at 13:59 |
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I don’t have the money right now to make this a safe car to race.
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> Stef Schrader
08/27/2016 at 14:00 |
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This car is very, very far from nice to say the least. The paint looks ok when waxed, but I have really wanted to do a car for when I go to Wasteland. Plus I’d rather LeMons my $500 Austin Healey Sprite MKIV when I get that done, but that one will be way way too nice to possible crush.
Yeah I have been trying to find one, but the early cars are harder to get parts for :/
KatzManDu
> CaptDale - is secretly British
08/27/2016 at 14:18 |
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I wish I could find a €500 928 over here.
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CaptDale - is secretly British
> KatzManDu
08/27/2016 at 14:22 |
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I don’t know if you really do lol. But yeah its been interesting.
Cé hé sin
> CaptDale - is secretly British
08/27/2016 at 15:16 |
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I had occasion to unplug my Mitsubishi gauge cluster once and it looked..........just like that.
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CaptDale - is secretly British
> Cé hé sin
08/27/2016 at 16:47 |
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Mmmmm, old tech
