I am in the midst of a major project on my "84 928
I have disassembled the rear suspention, pulled the transaxel and torque
tube and am preparing to replace the bearings in the tube.
(I am obviously very cheap) I was wondering if anyone had done
this and had any advice, all the parts places say it cannot be
done, (i.e.928 intnational)but a bearing is a bearing, and I can
certainly pull 'em out and replace them. I have found a couple of
web sites that talk about this, and have a copy of the manual on
CD, but just was wondering if anyone had additional info.

Thanks in advance

Bernard

do what 928 Intl tells you, if there is anyone of the planet that knows
more about 928's and what can be done it is them ....

send it our for rebuild or buy a used one.... it takes some very
special equipment to push the bearings where they are supposed to be...

Bernard farquart wrote:

further,

Well, yes you can do it yourself, however, the bearings are in the ends
of the tube and they are pressed in, they are also pressed onto the
driveshaft itself at the same time and the shaft has to be a specific
location relative to the torque tube, so unless you have a jig setup to
handle 6 feet worth of torque tube and can monitor the movement of the
bearings, the tube and the shaft all at the same time, don't bother
trying...

That is why everyone you talked to said "it can;'t be done" the more
correct statement is that unless you know what you ae doing and have
the setup.._... , send it out, spend the 250-300 dollars to have it done
and call it a day.you are only going to do it once in the lifetime of
the car.... the same holds true for 944 torque tubes....



Bernard farquart wrote:

I have to have one built up for a 78 924. Luckily I have a place close to
Chicago called Parts Werks that seem quite knowledgeable about these tubes.
On this one the "driveshaft" end was destroyed by a bad pilot bearing.
Really ugly and it seems like a lot of work to drop the rear suspension to
get this tube out of the bottom of the vehicle. The rear bellhousing is
part of the tube. :-(

I was also told that the driveshaft needs to be checked to make sure that it
is straight and true.
Parts Werks assured me that they can rebuilt that driveshaft and rebuilt the
tube.

How much time is this supposed to take to remove and install this tube?

fingers crossed!
--
later,
dave
One out of many daves.

"doug" <drcorley (AT) pacbell (DOT) net> wrote

you are looking at around 4-6 hours... go to www.clarksgarage.com and
read the articles on changing the clutch, essentially you are going to
do everythin up to removing the bell housing

you get to:

remove the exhaust system,
remove the transaxle and shift rod,
you get to drop the rear suspenion (you can't get the tube whithout
doing that)
then unbolt the tube from the bell housing

installation is the reverse.

One out of many daves wrote:

Hey doug
Big thanks for that information. Yeah it looks like at least 6 hours to do
that job. Just really worried about rusty bolts and nuts here in Chicago on
a 27 year old vehicle. lol
This is the first time that I have done a clutch/torque tube on a Porsche
924.
I had looked at a flat labor book for a later model Porsche and it said that
a clutch R&I was 12 hours. :-o

I will give an update after I finish this job maybe next week.

BTW I tried to go to that website but it redirected me to
http://newnet.qsrch.com/dpark?s=clar...e.com&prt=nn01
which seems to be a search engine.

later,
dave
(One out of many daves)


"doug" <drcorley (AT) pacbell (DOT) net> wrote

Big thanks Jack
That site works well. <g>
--
later,
dave
One out of many daves.


"Jack D. Russell, Sr." <jackru$$ellsr (AT) notmail (DOT) com> wrote