So your choices are…
A. Get stabbed in the foot with a rusty knife covered in chili sauce, hot sauce, smoldering bacon grease and oil…
Or
B. Do the timing belt on a porsche 944.
What would YOU DO?
I should have chosen option a. But for some weird reason I decided to do option b. My god dude. 4 hour job. Literally to GET TO the timing belt, do all of the stuff, get it out of the way, take the measurements, lock the flywheel, deal with all the crap i had to was 4 hours. Next time I doubt it’ll take half that because NOW it makes more sense. But holy crap man. You have to go through not one… not two. Not three. But FOUR BELTS to change. Stupid ridiculous. Then to top it off the tension has to be near perfect so it doesn’t either skip a tooth, ruin the water pump, or screw up a pulley. Nice.
Then you get the pleasure of “Moment of truth!” where you turn the key and hope your engine doesn’t grenade.
Ah yes. The wonders of working on the 2.5L 944 motor.
She purrs like a kitten now, one of my buddies came by to help me so i didn’t have to do all the steps by myself. But for the first time ever doing a timing belt on a 2.5L Porsche engine… i’m proud that it went so smooth.
Except that i got pulled over by a cop for my running light not on… i installed the tail light the night prior and it didn’t work. When i told him “Hm, it worked last night” he kind of gave me a look like “Yeah right, that’s what they all say…” but i got it working and he let me know, but not before we talked about cars for a few. Cool cop… nice guy.
Celebratory beeeeer!
(edit)
So i called carrera motors to get a quote on how much it would have been to have them do it, for shits and giggles.
$2000 is what he told me.
:what?:
Total cost of belts + beer - $96.
Total savings - $1904.
Wow.