986/ 987 Torque Specification Book? Is their a demand?

[Jake Raby]

Originally Posted by JayG

make it an e-book on Amazon and lower the cost

No desire to deal with Amazon at this time, or to make it an E book. We are going to try to keep the sales, and distribution limited to the Porsche industry.

Print books have a welcome place in glove boxes, and tool boxes. In my classes all the attendees want printed materials. Out of 600 attendees this year so far, we have only had 4 requests for electronic files, the rest wanted the print materials.

[911monty]

Jake This is a great idea and I would take the first off the press! The only thing that would make better is if it had the recommended sealant, anti-seize or thread locker listed.

[Jake Raby]

Originally Posted by 911monty

Jake This is a great idea and I would take the first off the press! The only thing that would make better is if it had the recommended sealant, anti-seize or thread locker listed.

The fasteners for these engines are micro- encapsulated, so sealants are not necessary. My engine rebuild book (to be released at the Porsche Literature Meet in 2016) will have some pointers on the items that you brought up.

I had originally tried to include all the torques for the engines in my rebuild book, but it added too many pages, and on top of that, the rebuild book covers M96 and M97, so it would be confusing. With the separate directive things are much more stream lined, and specific.

[Gilles]

Originally Posted by Jake Raby

The fasteners for these engines are micro- encapsulated, so sealants are not necessary.

Jake, I would be interested on the Torque Specs for the 987

I have one question: Does the torque required for a micro-encapsulated fastener and a regular fastener used with Locktite varies, or the torque value remains the same?

Thanks!

[JayG]

Originally Posted by Jake Raby

No desire to deal with Amazon at this time, or to make it an E book. We are going to try to keep the sales, and distribution limited to the Porsche industry.

Print books have a welcome place in glove boxes, and tool boxes. In my classes all the attendees want printed materials. Out of 600 attendees this year so far, we have only had 4 requests for electronic files, the rest wanted the print materials.

I would agree that for "Pros", printed is better as they would be referencing it very often. For back yard mechanics /DIY, electronic is preferred as we would not be using it as often and if a printed page is needed, its easy to print a page or 2

Sell it as a PDF yourself for a lower cost