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CarGuru > Open discussion > OT: Porsche guys vs. Studebaker guys 5 April 2005 16:16:54
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OT: Porsche guys vs. Studebaker guys

Nate Nagel 5 April 2005 03:53:26
 So I've been driving this Porsche 944 for about a year now... the one
thing that the previous owner warned me about when I bought the car was
that the top mechanism was screwed up. (it's kind of a weird cross
between a removable hardtop and a regular coupe with a sunroof - the
sunroof basically is the whole roof, but for about two inches on each
edge, and instead of sliding back, you just unlatch it and throw it in
the trunk. And of course the rear window and rear side windows are
still there, so it's not quite as open-airy as a real 'vert.)
Apparently one of the little plastic gears stripped and he replaced it,
but didn't get the two latches aligned correctly, and the replacement
stripped as well. He handed me a little plastic gear in a baggie with a
Porsche part number on it with some vague handwaving instructions on how
to replace it that I didn't really follow, and told me not to try to
take the top off until I'd gotten it fixed, because he'd made it latch
somehow and couldn't guarantee that it would re-latch if I ever took it
off. Well, I did some research on the net and there were several how-to
sites with instructions on how to service the top mechanism, all of them
rather confusing and fraught with dire warnings as to how easy it was to
screw this procedure up and if you really, really weren't confident in
your mechanical skills to leave this job to a Qualified Porsche
Mechanic. So I just threw the little gear in the glovebox and resigned
myself to not having a removable roof, as things like timing belts and
water pumps seemed more pressing than fixing the roof latch, since,
after all, one can drive to work with the top on, but driving to work
with a shaggy old timing belt is likely to be an expensive lesson in the
value of preventative maintenance.

Fast forward to last night. I'm driving home at about 75 MPH into a 40
MPH headwind, so I guess I was generating some serious negative
downforce in the area of the rear of the roof. All of a sudden I hear
POP-WHOOOSH and I look above me and the driver's side of the roof has
come loose from its latch and is flapping about an inch above the body
of the car. Oops. Fixing the roof just became a priority.

So tonight after work, I play with the latch mechanism and see that it
is indeed the driver's side that is FUBAR. So I take the little plastic
cover off the gearbox and see that there's a little rotating cable drive
type thing with a worm gear on the end which drives this little plastic
gear, which moves this little rack back and forth which comprises the
latch mechanism. So I play with the switch until I find where it
automatically stops in its "latched" position, put in the new gear, put
in the little rack/latch thing. Boom. Done. Notice that the other
side is up a little from it's fully closed position. Take cover off
that side, count the teeth on the "rack" extending out of the housing
from the side I've already done, set this one to match, reinstall
covers, test roof operation, works perfectly, in both "tilt" and "unlatch."

Now what did I do wrong? I thought this was supposed to be a difficult
operation? On a difficulty scale of 1 to 10 I'd give it about a "2" -
while based on reading the web sites it seemed to be of a technical
difficulty slightly easier than a clutch change on a Ferrari F40. Does
this mean I'm a Qualified Porsche Mechanic? <G> (I bet some of you more
experienced guys could have figured it out even quicker than I did...)

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go for a drive with the top off,
since it's nice out and I haven't had the pleasure of doing so since
before I bought the damned thing.

nate
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Midlant@Earthlink.Net 5 April 2005 04:03:49 [ permanent link ]
 Please up-date us in a few months.

Karl

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Nate Nagel 5 April 2005 15:36:27 [ permanent link ]
 midlant@earthlink.ne­t wrote:
Please up-date us in a few months.>
Karl>

With any luck the car will be sold, to generate more free cash for
Studebaker parts :)­

nate

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Robert Black 5 April 2005 16:16:54 [ permanent link ]
 Well Nate,you sure have above average mechanical skills from working on
Studes,so fixing any part of a Porche is a piece of cake(G)The average
Porsche guy probaly is used to shelling out great gobs of cash at the
dealers.Sounds a bit like Harley-Davidson(G)
"Nate Nagel" <njnagel@flycast.ne­t> wrote in message
news:ju6dnbD0NMeg5c­_fRVn-2Q@comcast.com­...> midlant@earthlink.n­et wrote:>
Please up-date us in a few months.>>
Karl>>
With any luck the car will be sold, to generate more free cash for > Studebaker parts :)­>
nate>
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