Coolant expansion tank replacement

[RandallNeighbour]

This would be a good time to buy yourself a Bentley Boxster repair manual. I just read up on this and it has pix on removing it and what's involved.

John (from Atlanta) has done this swap and can tell you what he did and why.

[insite]

not nearly as easy as it appears. i did mine from the top; it's doable but it's tight. the real issues are the hose clamps. if the hoses were a LITTLE longer and could be fastened from inside the trunk, it woule be cake. alas, this is not the case.

get yourself a good set of locking hose clamp pliers. i got mine from pep boys; it looks like a brake cable from a bicycle with pliers on the end.

if i had this to do over, i'd replace the hoses with longer ones. i'd tighten the new screw type clamps in the trunk and then push them through the firewall. this isn't a difficult job, but it IS a hard job. it's a real knucklebuster.

[98Boxster98]

Tool Pants posted a thread over at www.renntech.org about his experience replacing the coolant tank.

http://www.renntech.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=6675&st=0#

Just as Insite pointed out, I have read elsewhere that the Bentley manual is skimpy on the details on the coolant tank replacement. Tool Pants gets the job done (of course) but I think you will see a whiff of exasperation in getting to the hose clamps.

[Tool Pants]

Never met a hose clamp that could beat me.

[insite]

here's the hose clamp tool: