Any 928 Owners out there?, I have a few questions Options

[Tom_T]

I seem to recall somebody posting here that they'd taken their 928 to some 914 or P-car events over the past year, so I think there are some closet Shark fans out there! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I just don't recall who it was, or if there are several??

I have a crazy question which I posted over at the Pelican 928 Forum about whether you could tow with a 928, so any shark lovers here could maybe answer over there:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/porsche-928...tml#post6595065

Otherwise, if you prefer I'll just post it here too, but I didn't want to clutter up a 914 site with 928 questions, and risk being kicked to the sandbox again! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif)

TIA (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
Tom
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[zambezi]

I love when people talk about how these cars are unreliable and expensive to own and full of electrical problems. Of those people I always wonder how many have first hand knowledge of this. Or do they just know someone who knows someone with the problems. I am going on my 7th year of DAILY driving my '82 928. My only problems that prevented me from driving the car any of those years were a busted clutch hose and a pressure plate that got destroyed when the throw out bearing locked up. I have no electrical problems, never touched the torque tube, not done the timing belt yet but have the parts to do soon, and drive the heck out of the car. If you look above the liscence plate you will see the plug for my draw tight hitch. I have recently picked up an Austin Healey at the paint shop with an aluminum trailer. The car has plenty of power for pulling but can't handle a lot of tongue weight.

[Tom_T]

I love when people talk about how these cars are unreliable and expensive to own and full of electrical problems. Of those people I always wonder how many have first hand knowledge of this. Or do they just know someone who knows someone with the problems. I am going on my 7th year of DAILY driving my '82 928. My only problems that prevented me from driving the car any of those years were a busted clutch hose and a pressure plate that got destroyed when the throw out bearing locked up. I have no electrical problems, never touched the torque tube, not done the timing belt yet but have the parts to do soon, and drive the heck out of the car. If you look above the liscence plate you will see the plug for my draw tight hitch. I have recently picked up an Austin Healey at the paint shop with an aluminum trailer. The car has plenty of power for pulling but can't handle a lot of tongue weight.

Zambezi - Where did you get your hitch & installation?

That's a very clean job & looks like a better & less visible one that the factory optioned.

Those all sound like normal wear & tear type items, & which sometimes "stuff" (aka (IMG:style_emoticons/default/stromberg.gif) ) happens repairs.
Nothing I'm hearing nor reading anywhere in my research is scaring me off of 928s - as a GT cruising, nor for lighter duty towing.

The only question for me now is whether the tongue wt. limit can be safely resolved for my wife's planned trailer.
GTW/GVW for the T20 Avion that my wife is eyeballing is on title as 2400#, & so I'm guessing a tongue wt. of 240-250# if 10-11% of GTW, based on their other trailers of that periods GTW to TW ratios.

So I'm looking at these units as a possible solution to reducing the tongue wt. on the 928's hitch, by carrying most of it on the "hitch helper's" wheel(s) & axle.
There are 2 & 1 wheel varieties & large & small wheel mfgrs. that I've found so far, as in these pix .... and that new Airstream 16' actually weighs more than 3000# & has more trailer wt. than do the vintage ones of comparable sizes.





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