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On the other side, which wasn’t as tight to begin with, I just adjusted the parking brake through a lug bolt hole.
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I�ve had my car for a little over 2 weeks and tonight I installed 10mm Rennlist spacers in the rear with longer bolts.
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Lastly, it would make sense to use your local Porsche Indy to do this kind of work for you in the future especially when safety is involved.
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Hey Everyone,
I�ve had my car for a little over 2 weeks and tonight I installed 10mm Rennlist spacers in the rear with longer bolts. I bought these through Pelican parts who were very helpful in helping me with putting this order together.
After installing, I went to go pull the car out of the garage and felt some resistance pretty quickly. The car did not want to move. Thinking that the car has been sitting for a week, and that maybe the pad and rotor are just rusted together, I gave a slight nudge if throttle. Still, nothing. What the heck?! After lots of detective work, my father and I found the lug bolts sent by Pelican were a little too long and hitting the �guts� inside of the rear brake. The tips of the bolts showed freshly grazed metal like they were grinding on something.
The damage is done. The rears are bound up still. With the car jacked, Parking brake off and car in neutral, the wheels won�t spin. At this point, the calipers need to come off and whatever happened inside the emergency brake area needs to be fixed. I�m super bummed about this because I was looking forward to my first PCA event with my local club in Connecticut this weekend. I�ve got very little mechanical experience and would happily take any local up on some much needed guidance.
If you�re in CT, and have the knowledge, I have the beer and willingness! Just trying to make my first event this Sunday!
Welcome to the 996. Damn shame what happened. Unintentional mistake that you need to handle properly. Tough to tell the true damage without pictures.
Therefore, because you are not mechanically experienced, do NOT track your car until you have an experienced Porsche Specialist at your Porsche dealership or a local Porsche Indy go over your brakes and any connecting parts that could be damaged. It is IMPORTANT that you understand that brake, suspension or wheel/tire failure on the track is not something that you want to have in any way shape or form. Especially if you will have an instructor in your car with you, and as a novice you most likely do not have any safety equipment in your car. No roll cage, no harnesses, no racing seats, no way to use a Hans device, no protection if you hit a wall or roll the car. As an instructor, this kind of stuff scares the he'll out of me.
Also make sure that you have your local Porsche shop perform the necessary tech inspection to make sure that your car meets the requirements to pass the inspection. You can find the PCA DE tech inspection sheet on your local region's website.
Safety is priority #1. There will be plenty of DE's over the remainder of the summer.
Lastly, it would make sense to use your local Porsche Indy to do this kind of work for you in the future especially when safety is involved. Plenty of other things you can do yourself which is not brake, suspension, engine related, which will not put you or the car at risk.
I am keeping my fingers crossed for you that it is minimal damage. Be safe.
I'm planning to pull the calipers and rotors off tonight so I can see inside. I found a picture on Pelican parts website that I think really illustrates what I'm explaining. If you could imagine, the longer lug bolts went in, spun, and struck the components associated with the drum brake (springs and adjuster I'm assuming). I'm also assuming these items were likely damaged and the drum setup may need replacing. I've been looking online, but I haven't been able to find what part(s) I would need to buy.
Still hoping a local DIY'er with much more experience has some time to come help out a newbie! Thanks
U dont need an ebrake to go to the track. The guts r pretty simple and easy to replace. All the parts r available.
if u back the lug bolts does the wheel turn? I cant imagine u damage the caliper or anything of significance.
It's not too bad a repair. Do this:
1. jack one side up and remove the wheel
2. remove caliper and hang up out of the way
3. remove Phillips head screw holding the disc on and remove (this may take a little effort as the pads may be stuck)
4. take a picture of what you see and post here. likely that you just need to disassemble and reassemble the parking brake mechanism.
here's a great video
for you to see how to disassemble and reassemble (starting at 7:00)
So I followed the video for caliper and rotor removal. The rotor was stuck on due to the parking brake. After a little struggle, got it off… AND THERE WAS ZERO DAMAGE INSIDE! I could see just enough fresh metal to see where the lugs were grazing. All that apparently happened was the over sized lugs spun with the wheels, which hit something to make the adjuster super tight. Backed the adjuster down and it’s all good. On the other side, which wasn’t as tight to begin with, I just adjusted the parking brake through a lug bolt hole. Now it’s good.
thanks again for all the support- and huge shout out to my dad for the hands on help
cheers!
This is really a big screw up by Pelican, they are supposed to be experts but sent you products that potentially could have cost you hundreds of dollars to remedy.
Here is a chart showing bolt length for the appropriate spacers. This measure is the length of the bolt, that includes the seat.
