duke46

First of all its not my car. I have been working on y own cars from age 13. I have a Jag and BMW a Caddy a Vette and 10 more cars and trucks. Never had a problem with any of them. I can take them apart and rebuild them. But the newer they get to more aggravating the idiots that made them and the computers that control them get. I am fixing this for someone that his wife took out a mail box with the door. I understand what you are saying about triggering the air bag but this car has been in my shop before and all I did was repaint the front fender and fix a spot on the rear bumper and it didn't want to leave the paint bay after a few days. Almost choked me to death before I got it out the door? I don't have a any idea why and I even ask the owner and he was clueless? His wife drives the car not him but maybe a few times a year? If you want to work on it just come on over and go for it. I will even give you a bed to sleep in and feed you. When people ask me what do I work on I tell them whatever I want to work on and this is one I didn't want to do but I have a contract with his bike shop to do all powder coating and custom painting so I took it on. You may replay if you want but I will never see it. I am out for good of this one. At least I got one helpful answer. And my heritage is where you are from. Glad I live here :D So now to see what it takes to sign forever out of this forum.

I am having to swap door because of a damaged door. The main problem I have is trying to figure out how to replace the door lock? Hard to see in there to fig out what I need to disconnect so I can pull the whole part out with the lock. I have taken the two nuts off so it loose. Now how do I disconnect the shaft?

Looks like none of you have been there done that so here it is for the next guy before he dose it. I am screwed. I have to swap wiring harness and if any of you live in TX could you please go by and kick the guys BUTT for me :D He is going to love the email he gets when he gets to work Monday. I am not a happy camper for sure. I ask for a door that would work for a 2001 and the door does work but the wiring is all together wrong? I don't know what year he sent but it was older than I guess mandatory side air bags? :o Also this door has the holes for the air bag but with have to put in the nutserts to bolt the other three bolts down.

Thanks for the information. I did let it run for maybe 10 min after I started it back up that evening. That was when it would run better. I think the dumbo that said disconnect the battery should be shot to start with. Just pull the dag fuse for the air bag would have done better and all would stay the same. My brain was not thinking and its not my car and I don't even know where the fuses are but I will tomorrow for sure. If you are going to be working on something where you might chance shorting out something then that is when you disconnect the battery. At 63 years old and been screwing around and working on cars from age 13 I should know better but it was cold and brain had a freeze :o On you question about the cig lighter 9volt deal I guess you can buy them. You have to do the searching for one. The first one I made I just about burn up the 9 volt battery. A 12 volt high amp car battery will eat it alive. If you make one like I did the first time you will need two people. One the plug in the lighter and one to pull the battery cable at almost the same time and do it both ways when ready to connect the battery back. Now if you know what a diode is then you get one that will handle the 12 volts and put it in-line with one side of the cig ligher and 9 volt battery so the 9V will feed in to the car but the 12V want feed the 9V battery. A diode I am talking about will only feed one direction. They use them a lot on kits that people that tow other vehicles behind them so they don't have a feedback on the main vehicle doing the towing. Go buy one. It's easier :) Now if any of you had read my post on the wiring and the air bag deal on the door. I am screwed. I have to swap wiring harness and if any of you live in TX could you please go by and kick the guys BUTT for me :D He is going to love the email he gets when he gets to work Monday. I am not a happy camper for sure. I ask for a door that would work for a 2001 and the door does work but the wiring is all together wrong? I don't know what year he sent but it was older than I guess mandatory side air bags? :o

I have had the car in the shop for about a week on the car lift removing broken parts and today I had to remove the driver door and with it being one with an air bag it was suggested to remove the ground from the battery. Guess I will have to do it again when I put the other door back? I had to start the car to move it up on a small ramp ( with the door off) to work on the rocker panel that was damaged and it started OK but sounded strange? When I went to give it gas it sputtered and sputtered and tried to like pop back and the RPM would not come up? It almost cut off but didn't? I did get it to move where I needed it and turned it off. Later today I started it back up and just let it run for a while and got the temp up some. It would then take gas but wanted to almost backfire but I did get the RPM up and holding around 2000 for a few and then let it settle down and shut it off. The battery was disconnected long enough for the oxygen codes to go off but know they will be back? Is this car so fussy that the computer has to really do a major redo to make it run correct again? It had been running like a charm?

Hope some one can help? I am replacing the drivers door on an 01 boxster for my friend that was damaged with a fight with a mail box ( both lost that one)and his has the air bag. The replacement door did not. I felt up in the replacement door in hopes of finding a set of wires for it but did not feel any thing? Am I going to have to change the whole wiring harness out for it to work or have I just not looked hard enough? And if he says forget the air bag what do I need to do to cut the light off? He didn't even know it had side airbags till I told him today? What can I say :D :o If the mail box had not broken he would have found out I bet :rolleyes: