Living with a Porsche 944

In my quest to tighten up the handling on the 944, I bought a new Needle Bearing from Porsche in an attempt to eliminate the fore-aft play in the steering at the top universal joint. The part number for the replacement is 477.419.059 and costs £88.86 posted from an OPC. Nothing like the effort required to actually remove the old one... I began the process by reading section 48 of Porsche Workshop manual. It appeared a simple enough process but two things bothered me: firstly, it required a chisel to remove a shear bolt (which in my limited experience never "shear"; and secondly a drill to remove two screws from the ignition lock. I was bothered because a quick look under the dashboard made it quite obvious that whoever had written the manual hadn't performed this task - well not without a dashboard in place that's for sure. I was bothered before I'd even started. Furthermore, the manual doesn't detail the replacement of this bearing at all - just the rem...

It's been an interesting and somewhat confusing week with the 944. Some severe clutch slip coincided with my wife driving the car... I'm not saying that my Lovely is to blame, but there has been no sign of the clutch going up until this point. I've been hesitant to drive the last few days as the clutch may just be the most expensive part to replace besides the engine! However I was out and about today and there's no sign of clutch slip. Granted I didn't tackle the traffic on the school run as before - I used a different route avoiding the slow climb up a hill. So all seems well for now and hopefully I'll not need to fork out for that anytime soon.