John Glynn's Blog | 911 Porsche tales & other stories
Spring is Coming: Back to Work
Temperatures finally rose high enough today to encourage me to tackle some outstanding jobs on the cars. Number one emergency was the Land Cruiser, which has had sticky starter syndrome for a few weeks now – right when it was needed to be at its most reliable! What happens is the starter stays engaged after [...]
Updated WEVO Porsche Shifter
With over 2500 WEVO Shifters for the Porsche 915 and G50 transmissions in circulation across the early 911 community, this excellent product has proven itself to be a genuine improvement over the original. I have a Classic 915 shifter in my Orange car (bought and paid for by the previous owner) and I really do [...]
Porsche Mechanic Wanted
I popped in to Autofarm today, to drop off some parts belonging to one of their customers.
While there, I had a quick chat with Robin about business and how they were finding things. In common with most other Porsche independents I have spoken to recently, Robin reported business as being good, with lots of [...]
A Bit of a Lift
With all these projects comes the need for more tools: one big one in particular.
One Sunday morning a few years back, a Speedster-owning buddy of mine put a post up on ImpactBumpers.com. A friend of his was moving to the ‘States and clearing out his garage. He had an old scissor lift that had been [...]
911 Engine Rebuilding
A few years ago, a very good Porsche mate of mine put me on to an SC motor in unknown condition being sold for spares. We went down to see it and, though it was fairly neglected, it seemed worth a shot, so into the van it went. From there it went on the floor [...]