imthanick_a
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They already kissed and made up, and acknowledged they both made mistakes, leave it alone.
Well if we knew that you moved the car with the dogbone mount disconnected, this whole thread wouldn't have blown up like it did.
If OP put the car in gear and let it roll back on ramps, this would happen:
Figure 1 is the car putting torque against the gearbox in park/in gear. Figure 2 is how the dogbone should be. Figure 3 is how it is currently. The engine "feels" more solid because the top two mounts are currently loaded up due to all the extra tilt the motor has on it due to the dogbone being incorrectly mounted. That would cause the engine to contact cooling system components on cruise/decel as the dogbone is not really holding the motor at all.
Well if we knew that you moved the car with the dogbone mount disconnected, this whole thread wouldn't have blown up like it did.
2 hours labor, parts and coolant: $432.
Many years ago, for many years, I participated in a local radio call-in show about computers.
I can't tell you how many people would call in with questions and omit crucial bits of information that THEY thought weren't at all relevant.
For example, after hearing about some problem and after five minutes of asking the caller "what changed since the last time it worked" and hearing "nothing changed!", and asking more questions, we finally get around to finding out that "oh, just I moved my computer across the room--but that shouldn't have done anything". Yeah, that's why whatever you were doing suddenly stopped working the moment you did that.
But "I didn't do anything!".
Don't make me stop the car and come back there.
This should be a lesson to all of us that even the simplest of jobs can go south quickly if you try to rush, don't have the right equipment (lift/ramps/flat driveway/solid surface) or the correct tools then you may well cause far larger problems.
When I lived in Germany, my garage had a nice pit where you could get under the car and do stuff. I'm too old and grumpy to go crawling under a car so if I need to get under the car then I find a lift or let somebody else do it.
This ^^. He / she who never made mistakes never made anything. Woulda thought the OP would maybe have gotten away with moving it just a little. But coulda bin worse, bummer for sure but nothing literally destroyed, learn from it, fix it and move on. Don't do the same thing again, obviously, though I have known folk who've done, and still do, the same bad stuff over and over yet are amazed at the identical results....OP we've all done stupid shit on our cars / bikes. Learn by our mistakes as they say. Unless you're a mechanic by trade and have made enough mistakes to have learned to really limit any future mistakes then you're gonna make mistakes.. In this instance driving the car back and forth without the dogbone fully secured was a mistake you'll never make again, and hopefully anyone reading this post, will keep it in mind.
This ^^. I have known folk who've done, and still do, the same bad stuff over and over yet are amazed at the identical results....
Could have been a lot more expensive if the car had fallen on your nose.That is officially known as the definition of insanity.
What is reasonably upsetting for me, the OP, is that this is an easy mod. Very easy.
I guess the fact that I didn't feel safe crawling under the car on a shakey surface and Harbor Freight jack stands, cost me some $$$...uggh!
Could have been a lot more expensive if the car had fallen on your nose.
TheGreekFreak, Should you consider buying a 911, feel free to consult me. I did end up using the warranty: $4,200 and $336. When I traded it in the residual value of it was like $3400...so I was "in the money" feel free to reach out.