I feel your pain Joel but I am loving your rebuild series. So methodical and meticulous! Well done to you for showing us your journey. Once you’ve finished yours, if you fancy doing my 1999 C4 cabriolet, let me know😂
Yes but not to the extent of yours which will be museum quality when you finish. Ive owned the car for 15 years. It was a daily driver for the first 8 years and loved it. I’ve done the front suspension so far, which was quite easy. I need to do the back suspension done this summer to stop the squeaking.
Hey Joel, your videos on this have been flipping excellent! Thank you for all the detail! I had a problem that required the removal of the rack on my C4S and those VOSS fittings were jammed in my rack also. I ended up cutting both lines at the hard line up stream of the flex sections thinking I could get new sections made up and we could just join them in. Which we can. I also managed to get VOSS to send me some fittings .... turns out they are making them again! However!.... I'm struggling with two things .... fitting the new VOSS fittings onto the hard lines just like you have found tricky, and what to do about that flow restriction valve thing. PS what you might not want to hear is that you can get these lines from Porsche direct now... they have them in stock in the UK. They are £482 inc VAT each still though. My car is not as disassembled as yours though so I am trying to avoid taking it all apart just to replace those lines ... as well as the cost!
Hi, thanks for your email. I know where you are at. To fit the OEM VOSS fittings you need two things. A lip around the end of the pipe, and a crimping tool for the VOSS fitting. Both of which is not easy. I ended up developing a new VOSS style fitting at a machine shop and built a compression fitting into the end of it. Regards Joël
Great video 😊I’m about to embark on changing steering rack and possibly power steering pipe fittings. Did you fit that valve in one of the new Voss fittings or leave out? Thanks
Hi Phil, I had big plans to refit the valve, but in the end I left it out. It just means that when you detach the pipes with a full system, the fluids will run out of that single pipe. I intend to have a cap at the ready in the future.
It’s weird that you have the last two fittings. I would think that someone out in the Porsche restoration world would figure out a better solution such as making a common threaded fitting and be done with it.
Hi Graem, I have done exactly that. I developed a solution for this problem with a local hydraulics company but ended up using the prototype on my car. I had grand plans of marketing it but just didn’t have the time. But the concept is done and works perfectly. All for a fraction of the price and it involved machining a very cool fitting. YT will catch up soon. 👍
I feel your pain Joel but I am loving your rebuild series. So methodical and meticulous! Well done to you for showing us your journey. Once you’ve finished yours, if you fancy doing my 1999 C4 cabriolet, let me know😂
Hi Matt, thanks for your message. Very much appreciated. Are you planning similar work on yours? Regards Joël
Yes but not to the extent of yours which will be museum quality when you finish. Ive owned the car for 15 years. It was a daily driver for the first 8 years and loved it. I’ve done the front suspension so far, which was quite easy. I need to do the back suspension done this summer to stop the squeaking.
How did you get on with the rear suspension?
Hey Joel, your videos on this have been flipping excellent! Thank you for all the detail!
I had a problem that required the removal of the rack on my C4S and those VOSS fittings were jammed in my rack also. I ended up cutting both lines at the hard line up stream of the flex sections thinking I could get new sections made up and we could just join them in. Which we can. I also managed to get VOSS to send me some fittings .... turns out they are making them again!
However!.... I'm struggling with two things .... fitting the new VOSS fittings onto the hard lines just like you have found tricky, and what to do about that flow restriction valve thing.
PS what you might not want to hear is that you can get these lines from Porsche direct now... they have them in stock in the UK. They are £482 inc VAT each still though. My car is not as disassembled as yours though so I am trying to avoid taking it all apart just to replace those lines ... as well as the cost!
Hi, thanks for your email. I know where you are at. To fit the OEM VOSS fittings you need two things. A lip around the end of the pipe, and a crimping tool for the VOSS fitting. Both of which is not easy. I ended up developing a new VOSS style fitting at a machine shop and built a compression fitting into the end of it. Regards Joël
Great video 😊I’m about to embark on changing steering rack and possibly power steering pipe fittings. Did you fit that valve in one of the new Voss fittings or leave out? Thanks
Hi Phil, I had big plans to refit the valve, but in the end I left it out. It just means that when you detach the pipes with a full system, the fluids will run out of that single pipe. I intend to have a cap at the ready in the future.
It’s weird that you have the last two fittings. I would think that someone out in the Porsche restoration world would figure out a better solution such as making a common threaded fitting and be done with it.
Hi Graem, I have done exactly that. I developed a solution for this problem with a local hydraulics company but ended up using the prototype on my car. I had grand plans of marketing it but just didn’t have the time. But the concept is done and works perfectly. All for a fraction of the price and it involved machining a very cool fitting. YT will catch up soon. 👍
How frustrating. Seems like you have bad luck finding professional help for your 996
That is true. It’s really not easy. But I’ll get there in the end. I always do. 🙂