911 Update

"K-Roll-PorscheTamer" (k-roll390) 03/08/2016 at 20:08 • Filed to: 911 Life

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Finally got the Damn valve covers off! Valve checkup and adjustment happens tomorrow morning.

Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 03/08/2016 at 20:12

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Hey now, no need for foul language!

TheHondaBro > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/08/2016 at 20:14

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DAMN is an acronym.

D - Damn
A - Ass
M - Motherfucking
N - Nipples

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/08/2016 at 20:16

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Weird, it autocorrected to the acronym for Detroit Area Modern Mopar for some reason...

RallyWrench > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 03/08/2016 at 20:20

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Sweet, there are few I things I enjoy more than working on a 911. It takes a bit of contorting to adjust the back intake valves, but at least they don’t often need adjustment in my experience. Did you get the gasket set with silicone-bead gaskets, new spring washers, and lock nuts?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 03/08/2016 at 20:21

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I’m a total noob on Porsches - is the top pic new and old valve covers, or are the valve covers two-piece?

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > RallyWrench 03/08/2016 at 20:21

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Yup! I got it all sitting on my desk for installation tomorrow morning.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/08/2016 at 20:23

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The 911 has 4 valve covers. 2 top and 2 bottom. The picture has the top and bottom covers from top to bottom.

ttyymmnn > Dr. Zoidberg - RIP Oppo 03/08/2016 at 20:24

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Foul language is cathartic.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 03/08/2016 at 20:26

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Roger that. Should have thought of that, but it didn’t occur to me that there was such intense Germanity that they would be of different designs. The valves are pretty standard screw/jamnut to adjust, or something heinous and puck-based?

RallyWrench > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 03/08/2016 at 20:30

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Good deal, the lowers are practically guaranteed to leak without them.

Urambo Tauro > K-Roll-PorscheTamer 03/08/2016 at 20:32

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I seem to remember that you were gonna tackle this project a few weeks ago when the parts came in. ...and then it got COLD that weekend. I think waiting ‘til now was a good choice!

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/08/2016 at 20:33

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Screw and jam nut, easy peasy. Each has its own tiny little rocker shaft in the cam housing. The upper covers are often painted for aesthetics, as in this case. The lowers are much more seriously designed & fastened because they’re immediately adjacent to the exhaust and are subject to hot oil in the bottom of the engine.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 03/08/2016 at 20:37

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When we say locknuts, do we mean nylocs, friction face, crimp nuts, or something more exotic? I know when I said “engine” and “nyloc” in the same sentence about a week ago it gave Oliphant Chuckerbutty/O.C. the Tork Dorque/whatever on here a brain hurt.Then again, I think he has a military background, where nyloc-on-engine would be even more horrifying than normal.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 03/08/2016 at 20:46

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Pun intended.

RallyWrench > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/08/2016 at 20:47

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Then he won’t like this. They’re Nylocs, as factory fitted from the 3.2 Carrera (‘84) on.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > RallyWrench 03/08/2016 at 20:50

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Well, there do seem to be enough of them, at least. The only really scary thing is if nylocs are trying to hold a fastener to a desired torque of much largeness on something vibratey. If the required clamping force and torque are both pretty low, it’s not prima facie horrifying.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > RallyWrench 03/08/2016 at 21:49

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The gaskets are pretty much nonexistent now haha. The new ones will be perfect.

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 03/08/2016 at 21:50

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Pretty much yeah. I've never done it before but I've my new trusty gauge reader ready!