What did you do with your 718 this week?

[J-Dub]

in conclusion to water temp commentary is I now know to run in sport plus while on track.

plus a picture

[Larry C]

Looks like a nice way to spend the morning

[Arne2]

Agree on the aspect and advantages of more versatile tires, at least for winter use in my case. I now have the OEM wheels mounted with MPS All-Season 4 tires as the winter wheel set for the GT4.

I have 4-6 months per year when the temp may be in the 30's (F) but with dry roads. Snow is not common, and goes away quickly, so I can ignore that. Since I don't track my car, I can easily get away with all seasons year-round. And I have on my previous Porsches. All seasons on the 718 will considerably extend my driving season.

[Arne2]

The Toyos and wheels were installed this morning. Don't have enough miles on them yet for any kind of meaningful review. But they look good and took very little weight to balance out. And I really like the Carrera S style wheels, much nicer (to me) than the previous Boxster S wheels.

Here's the teasers:

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[blueline]

The Toyos and wheels were installed this morning. Don't have enough miles on them yet for any kind of meaningful review. But they look good and took very little weight to balance out. And I really like the Carrera S style wheels, much nicer (to me) than the previous Boxster S wheels.

Here's the teasers:

Geeez, they look great!! Nicely done.

[Arne2]

Geeez, they look great!! Nicely done.

Thanks. I really like the updated look. Still not enough miles for much of a review on the Toyo all seasons, but I can say they seem to be reasonably quiet so far. Will have a better feel for them after next weekend's PCA drive.

Here is a 'before' shot.

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And here it is on Friday during a couple of short errands.

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[J-Dub]

So a small piviot to my previous plans for this weekend. I started out Saturday with an oil change. Pretty straight forward except I had the incorrect filter. It seems I had one for a 4cylinder turbo and not a 4.0l. No big deal I will run up to the dealer parts department and swap it out. What was unexpected was while I was down there I notice the driver side inner CV boot was slinging grease. Hmm, that is strange but I am heading to the dealer now anyway. Yes the car is under warranty but I want to deal with this now. I get a boot, both clamps, grease and the associated hardware just in case.

I take the axle out, which was a bit of a thing because I did not want to loosen the lower inner control arm eccentric since that will impact the alignment. I get the joint cleaned up and apart and the only fault I can find is the clamp is a bit loose. No hole or crack in the boot at all. So I put a new clamp on it and it still won't tighten up that tight so I take off the clamp and commit the ultimate sin, a smear of RTV and put it back together tightening the clamp as tight as I can. That was a super unsatisfying repair and I don't yet know if that will stop the grease flinging.

The oil, filled it with 8 quarts of C40 and the dash indicates full. I have recently learned how to check the oil level with my X431 so I will verify after the first drive. I used a cheap three finger oil filter wrench, next time I would choose to use the schawaben fluted oil filter tool, will put that on my list.

The next part was very straight forward, installed Ferodo 3.12 pads. The front were super easy, even the pad wear sensors were easy to get to. The rears were a bit more tricky with respect to the wear sensors as there is not very good access to them and then there were shims between the pistons and the pad that I swapped over to the new pads. Did not expect that. The fronts did not have any shims on the new pads. The rear pads also had ears for what looks like weights likely to stop squeal on the factory pads, not sure if there is a way to attach new ones.

I then did a full bleed with Motoul RBF 660. Will bed the brakes in later.

Finally I installed my track wheels with the very used Cup2 tires, I have a two day track event next weekend and I hope to burn up these tires so I can replace them before my November two day track weekend.

Cheers!

[blueline]

That's quite the undertaking Jeremy - good for you! I don't even pretend to tackle those kinds of issues any more. (Not that I did much of that earlier in life either...)

Interestingly, I also just had pass side CV work done, completed at the end of August. The mounting bolts for the right inside bolts to the trans flange had loosened and slung axle grease everywhere. A bunch of new parts on the svc ticket - CV joint, clips, screws, boot, flange, bolts, nuts etc., pretty much everything as a precaution I guess. All done under wty. All other associated CV stuff was fine, including everything on the left side. New alignment was part of the deal too.

Back to you - hats off for doing it all yourself. It sounds as though you got everything accomplished.

I'll be back on track Tuesday, NCM this time - can't wait! Have fun next weekend!

[J-Dub]

Interesting that your CV was slinging grease as well. I can confirm that the first two CV bolts I loosed were tight, the other 4 were not that tight. Maybe mine were slightly loose as well and that contributed. I will check back there later this week and see if the slinging has stopped as well as torque all of them down again. I will even check the passenger side this time.

Edit, one down side of having the X431 is that I can look around and find problems. For example the gap on my rear brake shoes for the electronic parking break are at 2.04 and 2.06 where the spec is 1.9 mm. So now at some point I need to go back there, remove the rear rotors and manually adjust the stars to adjust out the shoes a bit.

[Tom]

So a small piviot to my previous plans for this weekend. I started out Saturday with an oil change. Pretty straight forward except I had the incorrect filter. It seems I had one for a 4cylinder turbo and not a 4.0l. No big deal I will run up to the dealer parts department and swap it out. What was unexpected was while I was down there I notice the driver side inner CV boot was slinging grease. Hmm, that is strange but I am heading to the dealer now anyway. Yes the car is under warranty but I want to deal with this now. I get a boot, both clamps, grease and the associated hardware just in case.

I take the axle out, which was a bit of a thing because I did not want to loosen the lower inner control arm eccentric since that will impact the alignment. I get the joint cleaned up and apart and the only fault I can find is the clamp is a bit loose. No hole or crack in the boot at all. So I put a new clamp on it and it still won't tighten up that tight so I take off the clamp and commit the ultimate sin, a smear of RTV and put it back together tightening the clamp as tight as I can. That was a super unsatisfying repair and I don't yet know if that will stop the grease flinging.

The oil, filled it with 8 quarts of C40 and the dash indicates full. I have recently learned how to check the oil level with my X431 so I will verify after the first drive. I used a cheap three finger oil filter wrench, next time I would choose to use the schawaben fluted oil filter tool, will put that on my list.

The next part was very straight forward, installed Ferodo 3.12 pads. The front were super easy, even the pad wear sensors were easy to get to. The rears were a bit more tricky with respect to the wear sensors as there is not very good access to them and then there were shims between the pistons and the pad that I swapped over to the new pads. Did not expect that. The fronts did not have any shims on the new pads. The rear pads also had ears for what looks like weights likely to stop squeal on the factory pads, not sure if there is a way to attach new ones.

I then did a full bleed with Motoul RBF 660. Will bed the brakes in later.

Finally I installed my track wheels with the very used Cup2 tires, I have a two day track event next weekend and I hope to burn up these tires so I can replace them before my November two day track weekend.

Cheers!

Were the CV joints slinging grease between the transaxle flange and the joint, or from the large or small end of the rubber boot?