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YOUR RESEARCHFinally addressing my convertible top
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car, and a cigarette butt
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Large dried leaves, a broken piece of who knows what, likely the car, and a cigarette butt from at least two owners ago.
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When cleaning the drain outlet in the wheel well it appears that he has the wheel off and the car is only supported on a hydraulic jack.
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Yogi thanks for the video on your drain cleanout and "flow test".
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When working with a wheel of you should always use a stand of some sort!
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Great video, informative and entertaining. But one comment. When cleaning the drain outlet in the wheel well it appears that he has the wheel off and the car is only supported on a hydraulic jack. This is a really bad idea. When working with a wheel of you should always use a stand of some sort!
Good observation. In just about all situations there�s a jack AND stand working in tandem. This one time I believe I relied on just the jack. Bad form.
I have to sit down with a beer this afternoon and catch up on this. I have the cab top too and don't dare to speak of it for fear I might have to deal with some of these issues. Been lucky so far.
Yogi thanks for the video on your drain cleanout and "flow test". I knew i needed to clean mine out because I found water under my passenger rear seat once after a wash. Nothing would prepare me for the junk I found in there. Luckily I didn't need to take the wheels off, it flowed fantastic after cleaning out the trays only. That makes this the most rewarding 20 minute project ever. Check out the solids I found in mine beyond the silty grime:
Yes, this 2"x3" bag was the prime culprit on the passenger side buried in amongst all the sediment. Now tell me how that got down there.
Large dried leaves, a broken piece of who knows what, likely the car, and a cigarette butt from at least two owners ago.
Congrats on getting the top to work, so far all we did to ours was refill the reservoir with CHF 11S fluid. Someday we'll rebuild or have rebuilt the rams which have very slow leaks.
Yeah looking back at my video I noticed it did flinch at one point. It just wouldn't move. Now it all works great. So very happy.
On a similar topic, I'm a member of a few Porsche FB Groups and am seeing quite a few 996 owners getting quotes from stealerships and indy shops in excess of 3K. Insane. I should set up a shop and charge less.
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