13Oct2011
Cayman Service
Had this nice Cayman come into the shop today for a quick round of spark plugs and filters. 80k miles on this car and it is wearing well. Pretty solid overall. Up in the air and ready to rock. First thing to do is to pull as many shields and wheels out of the way as possible. With a plethora of various extensions, wobbles, torx bits, etc, you can pull the coil packs out to get to the spark plugs. …
11Oct2011
Toyota Celica Alternator Install
Yesterday Wes tackled a quick job by installing an alternator in this Celica. Another daily driver done. No problem is too big or small for RennsportKC 🙂
08Oct2011
DE Prep 964 C4
This week we will tackle getting the Yokohama car ready for the upcoming HPDE. We have some leaking valve cover gaskets that we need to tackle, bleed the brakes, change out some torn axle boots, and it should be good for the weekend. Here you can see the oil has been dripping down onto the headers and burning off. Without the OEM heatshields/heat exchangers in place, we will likely have to do more valve cover gasket work annually as they …
07Oct2011
Some more daily driver work
Yup, we dabble in Mercedes work as well 😉 This one came through for a quick oil change and inspection going into the winter months. Pretty straight forward with no surprises. Some fresh mobil 1 and filter, a top off of all the fluids, and we sent this one on it’s way.
07Oct2011
Shop Updates
Shop is coming along. We have been cleaning (a lot of cleaning), painting, and trying to knock some work out at the same time. Val has been busy painting walls and floors. We got half of the upstairs floor painted to cover up years of clutch dust, etc, LOL. Then she painted some unpainted walls….. And got some really dirty walls painted…… Meanwhile, my buddy Tim from Learntech Inc. has been by setting up our computers and interwebs. He got …
29Sep2011
993 Seat Motor Cables
Had one left over car in the shop that I need to take care of. A common issue with the 993’s is that if you put the seat in the rear most position, often times it gets stuck there and will no longer slide forward. If you know this, usually repeated tapping of the switch or giving it a bit of a nudge from the back of the seat will jar it loose and it will slide freely. Someone started …
29Sep2011
Boxster Coolant Leak
Ok, obviously we are having a glitch in the system. This is the 2nd time I have created an entire post, only to hit Publish, and it posts a blank entry and deletes my written post. Grrrrr….. This Boxster came in this week with a slow coolant leak the owner couldn't find. The coolant expansion tanks in the 996 and Boxsters are known for cracking and causing a slow leak. On the 996, it will leak down off the …
29Sep2011
Daily Driver Work
Arghhh, 2nd go around here. Not sure why most post came up blank the first time. We have to keep those daily drivers on the road too! Not everyone uses their Porsche on a daily basis, but rather needs a kid, dog, and toy hauler too! This 2003 Inifniti FX45 was making some odd noises from the front of the engine, so it was time to get it looked at. Turned out to be something as simple as the drive …
29Sep2011
Audi A4 Quattro Axle and Ball Joints
We've had the axle laying around for quite some time now….we were just missing the car! Finally the car arrived, and I went about replacing the torn axle boot/axle assembly on the passenger side. The car has about 160k miles on it, so for the cost of the axle, it didn't make sense to just replace a boot, when likely the axle doesn't have that much life left on it anyway. There was also a lot of clunking going on …