Porka(Porsche)924S/944 power steering pump/car being broken?

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:20 pm

Long shot this one, but I really do need to get my 924S MOT'd and sold (need the cash).

Anyone have/know of a 924S or 944 being broken round their way?

I need a power steering pump (mine has started to munch itself).

And I DON'T want to pay the £55 everyone on ebay seems to want for one - that's way too much money (just cause you have a porka, everyone seems to assume you have loads of money?)

£25 is what I reckon is reasonable.

Can anyone help?

Cheers

BigTom · Post by **BigTom** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:23 pm

Afraid I can't help, but how d'ya find the 924 to live with? Always had a softspot for these/944s and considering one as a lude successor should mine eventually succumb to something unfixable.

Post by **Pushki** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:24 pm

You may want to state what car this is.
To me, it's just a bunch of numbers.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 2:59 pm

I have done lol
(Porsche) 924S or (Porsche) 944
But ok, title edited

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:16 pm

BigTom wrote:Afraid I can't help, but how d'ya find the 924 to live with? Always had a softspot for these/944s and considering one as a lude successor should mine eventually succumb to something unfixable.

Easily usable as an everyday car.

My mate ran a standard 924 as a daily for about a year and a half, 40ish mile commute every day and it was fine.

I used this 924S as a daily for a couple of months and again, no problems at all. Fuel economy is the only slight bummer, but it's about the same as the lude.

Really simple, reliable car and easy to work on too. Cambelt is by far and away the easiest I've ever done, about half an hour and it was all stripped apart! Only really awkward job was the lower engine mount under the exhaust manifold. These always get completely cooked. According to service manuals, you have to take the engine out (no thanks!), managed to do it just by removing the exhaust manifold but getting to all the bolts on that and manoeuvring it out was a complete sod...

Standard service parts and gaskets/seals etc, that kind of thing are pretty plentiful and cheap, it's only once you start going beyond standard service stuff into larger components that things can start getting expensive, but there are plenty around being broken and even then, quite a few parts are common with VAG's from the same period (no, NOT the engine in the S, before anyone starts saying it's a VAG van!!!) so if you can find the cross-reference part numbers, you're in business there too.

IMHO the standard 924 handles better than the S, due to the lower ride height and smaller rims/tyres (tbh I was blown away by how well it handled) but after a lude, you'd find the standard 924 dog slow.
The 924S has a LOT more go and has a GREAT throaty roar, even in standard airbox/exhaust trim (it really is properly exciting when you put your foot down)

924 Turbo is exciting but the engine bay gets well hot and there's a lot of non-standard stuff on the engine, so parts supply for that is getting a bit more difficult now.

There are a LOT of terrible colours out there too (exterior paint and crap/disgusting interiors) so it can take a while to find a nice one. Mine's definitely not in that category though - white paint and the best, black 'large logo' interior

I'd love to keep it, but have too many cars sitting waiting work anyway and I really need the money now, so as soon the power steering's fixed, it'll be MOT'd and up for sale.

BigTom · Post by **BigTom** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:29 pm

Cheers for that, sounds good. Hopefully my lude still has a few years of life left in it though

Love the red/white pinstripe interiors (maybe just on the 944?), but I may be alone in that

Yum!

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 3:58 pm

There's all sorts of interiors out there on the S and the 944's (there are some red ones on the S but they're really uncommon)

Your pic shows the common problem with all the 'half' type seats though - they ALL split!

Seat trims in mine in these pics (sorry, low res only and for some reason the front seat looks faded/pinky in this pic, which it isn't, but you get the idea about the stitched logo!!!)

Supermarine Blues · Post by **Supermarine Blues** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:11 pm

Bit of a long shot, but is it the same pump on an Audi 100 or VW LT?

It might just be cheaper.

I realise they'd switched to 1/2 a Porsche engine by then, but you never know.

89 UKDM BA4 4WS (resto job!) · Post by **wurlycorner** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:39 pm

Nah, completely different pump to the 924.

It's a similar pump to the Audi coupe by the looks but still not the same. As far as I can work out, it is specific to the 924s/944

Supermarine Blues · Post by **Supermarine Blues** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:33 pm

Makes sense - not nose-heavy like everything else.

Oh well...Golf GTi?