What did you do with/to your Boxster today?

[Geof3]

Originally Posted by jmitro

I bought a lightly wrecked base 99 manual 5spd last year and proceeded to repair it.
Early this year I replaced brake rotors, pads, sensors and every suspension wear component. I painted the calipers red and replaced the flexible brake lines (poseur alert).



Enjoyed it for a few months until one day pulling away from stoplight, it popped the driver side CV joint. I decided to go all in and fix all the "while you're in there" items since the car had no maintenance records and 120k miles. Sooooo.....new CV joints, new rear wheel bearings, new AOS, RMS, IMS bearing (LN ceramic), coolant expansion tank, spark plugs, all fluids and all filters, flywheel/clutch/TO bearing, motor and transmission mounts, water pump/Tstat, coolant hoses, serpentine belt. This car should be good for another 50k miles In my haste to get things back together, I forgot to take pics of the new LN bearing. DOH!


new RMS; about to pull the old IMS bearing



Old IMS bearing



old water pump with metal impeller





Look how bad the motor mount was failing. You can see it split right through.

Very common for the motor mount. Mine fell apart when I removed it. 02S with 60k. I really think, for anyone just buying a Boxster that doesn’t have record of a new motor mount, just get it done. Absolutely worth it.

[Starter986]

Pulled the starter... to grease it up and quiet it down. Didn't have to. Pulled on the the starter gear and immediately it retracted. So... I'm chalking up the cold start sound to the chains rattling over the guides pre-oil. All that work for nothing.

On another note... was slipping on a new hose over the two inches of hose sticking from the power steering reservoir... and it broke flush with the reservoir. No sticking on a new hose. Is that a big deal? The power steering reservoir hose (coming from the top side) hasn't been leaking. It had a kink that would have prevented any overflow from dribbling out... I cut it off... went to slip on a new hose (over the existing remaining 2 inches) and it snapped of flush. Big deal?

Thanks.