Sorting out Bad Handling and Wheel Alignment, Porsche 911, Pt. 1 

"She needed to be liberated from the ballast of years and years of pointless tuning and repair attempts." Werner Herzog as Porsche mechanic. Amazing.

When your video dropped, it provided me with a perfect excuse to have break from the 36c heat and stop gardening. Johannes your videos are without doubt the cream of the RU-vid crop and amazingly seem to improve with every episode. Bravo Johannes, and thank you. Best wishes from Provence..

Ahhh… the ballast of old repairs and modifications… love the effort you put into your voiceovers. I also really appreciate how much you show us the struggles associated to that ‘ballast’. It reminds us we are not suffering by ourselves when we are alone in our garage working on an old bolt for 2 hours. Great music. Thank you for taking us along your journey.

I like the use of hand tools. Cheers for that.

A great video! Your dry, witty commentary is a gem and I think your production values are getting more sophisticated with time. Very, very watchable. And I don’t even own a Porsche!

I just installed spring plates and new torsion bars on my 76 911 after watching your video. It helped immensely, thanks for the great content!

For once, the RU-vid recommendation engine did its job! Subscribed!

This is so much better than the glits and glam of looking at another showroom 911 video.

Amazing skill set…much respect…great vlog…thankyou.

You’re not a mechanic. You are a poet.

I have just found this channel and love your work but also the VERY humourous voiceover "Stay away from the light little Porsche". Brilliant to watch and listen to.

You had me at “this is an ex puller “. Genius.

Oh boy, those rusted torsion bars and spring plates are always a big challenge. Beautiful repair!

I wish i could bring my car to you.....totally inspiring thanks!!!

Thanks so much. I love your videos because you explain the concepts so well. This is first 911 video that I have seen that explains the adjustments to the rear so well. I often wondered how it worked :).

5 minutes in and I’m hooked. What a well put together video. And love the prose. This, is for the tasteful gentlemen who also harbour the passion…. for street power.

Glad this was recommended.

Superb, again. I have a much better understanding of rear suspension adjustments now, but, (paraphrasing) though I don’t understand it, I’ll have to handle it. Thanks for taking the time to thoroughly document this repair.

The more I watch your videos, the greasier my fingers get. They're nowhere near as greasy as yours but it's accumulating. Thanks for sharing so much knowledge.

Watching this took me back to the days when i was first exposed to Volkswagen Beetle and mini-van suspensions. I was both horrified and intrigued. It wasn't uncommon for the local hill-billys to cut the body off of a beetle and jack the suspension up to better allow their forays. My good lord, how those old buggies suffered such indiginities...lol. Cheers!

Watching your videos are great and I really appreciate your sense of humor. Watching this video was a reminder of all the similar issues that I went through when I was refreshing my suspension on my SC. Good times! Looking forward to more from you.

Another proper detailed job, I have come to expect no less from you now! Great job, well done. 👍

what a great assessment. I hate to admit it, but this is exactly the same point that 90s and 2000s JDM cars are at now as well. They have been unskillfully modified and "repaired" with 'i learned it on youtube' levels of understanding....

Your skills are impressive and your production too! really nice material!

I don't have a Porsche, but this was highly fascinating! I am interested in suspension setup, and it's amazing the differing solutions engineers dream up to the same problems. Thanks for the video!

Well done on some excellent content . Great to see the variety of Porsche restoration work and accompanying narrative. Also, helpful to hear of the recommended products in the projects. Keep up the wonderful work. Artisan !

You are an Artisan, sir. I enjoy your videos very much. At first I thought you were a DIYer, like myself, but it seems you have a shop. They’re lucky to have you. We need more like you in the US.

Great video, I am just on this topic, so it really helps. Actually I need to readjust all again, and I guess a few times more until I am happy enough with the figures. Good job

I absolutely love what you do, amazing content.

Greetings from Texas. Love your Porsche content…best on RU-vid!! Keep them coming please.

Fantastic insight, thanks a lot Johannes!

Interesting video. I really like your quiet witty narrative. Well done.

All I can say is judging by your accent I just wish you were in the states! And do you want to hold my hand while I work on my 911 so I don’t make any more expensive mistakes?! Greasy, your a rare bread. To rare to live, to wild to die. Thank you.

Really enjoy. Thank you

Awesome video:)) good to see you again

I'll never be able to afford one of these awesome cars but love watching you work on them :)

Very well produced video. Love your use of words (not even in you first language)

Nice job good save on the mounting repair 👍

Not a Porsche 911 owner (though I was in danger of buying a 993 some years ago before my attention was diverted by a BMW E39 M5) but love the content, aesthetic and production values of your videos. Your obvious care and attention to detail are what I try to replicate in bringing my M5 to peak condition. Greetings from the Highlands of Scotland.

Endlich wieder ein neues Video!

Excellent video 👍

NIce work as always prof.

Nice video Johannes! Love 911s

Tolles Video. Sie sind ein wirklicher Fachmann. Die meisten Werkstätten haben dieses Wissen leider nicht mehr. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I've just bought an '89 Carrera to use whilst my 105 GT Junior is on my rotisserie. It seems that we're on very similar pathways (although mine far less experienced). Thanks for the very interesting video (as usual)!

how exciting to see any 911 here on your channel thumbs up before I even click play

I just found your channel. I love your content. I have subscribed and liked. Ty.

Enschuldigen Sie mir mein schuledeuch, aber dieser Kanal ist einer von die besten die ganze RU-vid. Danke von Norwegen.

By luck, RU-vid suggested I watch this. Very informative, however, my old 911 needs an alignment and now I am having nightmares! Wish me luck and best wishes from upstate New York.

Well done. Been there many times myself. Even California cars get their spring plates stuck. I too choose not to re-vulcanize the new bushings. Very impressed with your alignment technique without a dedicated rack. That's a skill I have yet to develop. Your ratchets appear to switch opposite of mine? So few people don't understand how much test and measure, do it again it takes to get the alignment just right nor how influential the rear is on a regular car let alone a Porsche. Around here it nearly $200 for "toe and go" and customers wonder why a good alignment costs so much.

Hi Greasy finger ! Good to see you again on performing surgeries hastily

I've missed your videos mate!

Always impressed by the work done and the explanations that go with it, that even I can understand. Any work planned on the S124 seen at the beginning of the video ? Less glamorous for sure, but also a nice piece of engineering… missing Giulia and her pink underwear, too

It's exactly the same workflow as on my 1979th VW Käfer.....different number of teeth on the outside to the outside on that torsionbar suspennsion.

4:36 At this point I liked this video

Brilliant video, very informative and very funny as usual...I clicked the thumbs up a dozen times (I know, it flips it on and off again instead of increasing the 'likes' :-)). Did you move to your city on purpose, or does it have '911' in its postal code by coincidence ? After some reflection, no, this can't be coincidence...wit your knowledge and patience making these 911's perfect again...must be a sign...

Great to see you uploading again Johannes! By the way, I couldn't help but spot a Fiat 500 C in the background... Could you tell us more? ;)

WUNDERBAR.

Capolavoro!

Seeing that the torsion bars had completely rusted stuck to the bearings would you not like to use some kind of anti-seize compound on the splines when installing the new bars? Something like copper grease would already go a long way I would think. Thanks for the great content btw!

Neuer Porsche? Ich dachte deiner ist rot. Freue mich immer auf deine Videos! 🔥

super!

Great video, sir. I look forward to scratching my knuckles doing the same. Need to find some good used heat exchangers first, if you know anyone...

This would have been the perfect time to upgrade the torsion bars and use poly bronze bushings

Kontemplatives Staunen und lernen, schon ähnlich den Videos von Jethro. Grazie mille 🙏

for my demanding customers I set up the suspension with the owner siting behind the steering wheel. 70 kg or 130 kg makes a difference

excellent work. one klugscheiss-comment though: never owned one, but if so, I would definitely opt for a coil-over conversion for the ease of life :-D

You think you have problems. I couldn’t get rid of toe out on the rear wheels. Several mechanics and several alignment shops lied about the readings. The last one said it was my aftermarket adjustable spring plates, but is wasn’t. I actually had to enlarge the alignment slots on the spring plates for the toe adjustment. I had trouble removing one of the torsion bars. I had to drive it out from the opposite side. The whole problem stemmed from a bent torsion bar tube, and the car had two different trailing arms on it. I ended up diagnosing these problems myself, after the pros couldn’t figure it out. Although the tube is still a little bent. I constructed a strong bar and used a come along to pull the bar enough to get tow in at the back. I align with strings, and have the car set up right now. I installed aluminum trailing arms in place of the steel arms, adjustable spring plates and hollow bars, with poly bronze bushings and monoball trailing arm mounts. It is an Autocross car, but I do drive it on the street. It is a super lightweight , weighs in the 1700’s down from about 2240. I’m running aggressive suspension settings. Everything is fully adjustable and I can pull torsion bars out of the spring plates, by jacking up the side , removing a snap ring, and threading a bolt into the torsion bar and pulling it out. I enjoy your videos. I purchased Rod Emory’s alignment platform it will handle anything from the earliest 911’s up to RSR type cars. Hope you had a nice Christmas. Oh, I built a special 2.7 short stroke engine 66 crank with 93mm cylinders, and had California Motorsports build a custom 901 transmission, with all of their billet parts. Has a posi and close ratio gears. It’s scary fast, about 245 HP for 1700’s weight. If you would like to see the car coming back from a test drive, and first start up of the new engine, go to Rod Graff on You Tube. The first two videos are of the car. Of course it now has evolved quite a bit further

Great video! Where did you source the new spring plates? Link?

Awesome collection of hammers! Man can never have too many hammers 😁

If you are a mechanic how come your hands are so clean? and your tools are not greasy ? :) (great video by the way!)

Nice video great music and editing, as always One little remark on the technical side. Bringing rubber bushings in the vicinity of Fluid Film is not the smartest option, as to my experience Fluid Film has a tendency to destroy any rubber it gets in contact with. It softens it at makes it grow.After a few months of chemical exposure you might have another dead parrot in your driving train.

You are a maniac, a genius maniac

Hello again my lunchtime viewing ,how many 911s have you got 🤗

Great video, great commentary! … but is that actually a 911SC? It looks like a 74-77 911S with an SC motor and a carrera front spoiler. The rear fenders aren’t flared.

I love your non-bullshit approach and practicality! New subscriber right here!

Im surprised you just didn't go with rear coilovers

I think every car should have a hate-adjuster.

You don't really understand how it works, you just have to deal with it.

Good work as always. I can't remember, but do you buy your primer pre-tinted, or do you do it yourself? If you do it, what do you add?

The poor mother wouldn't approve you language during that "amputation", but we got the point...🤣

I have watched all of these and I can't even afford a Porsche…

Amazing channel. Can I be your apprentice? Living in Munich and searching for a 911 g Modell to resto

15:08 🤣🤣🤣

Hallo Freund, Wie geht's Ihnen? Viel Spass & freundlischer Grûsse aus Kanada!

the design of using the sill as mountings for rear axle seems stupid.

How is it an SC with narrow fenders?

"this is an ex puller" 🙂