Replacement of Porsche 911 door stay and installation of reinforcement plates for damaged door sheetmetal. Easy DIY you can do in an afternoon.
Additional Notes:
1. This applies for all 911s up to 1989.
2. The same door stay works on the left or right side.
3. Some loud hammering so headphone users beware.
4. If you add reinforcement plates, measure the outer plate cutout height so it clears the door stay pin mounting tabs before installing. If necessary it would be good to add clearance with a Dremel or grinder beforehand. Skip to 23:32 for details.
5. Please take all necessary safety precautions. Not responsible for any personal injury or vehicle damage.
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Thanks will be doing this soon on my 78sc
As the owner of an '81 SC, I definitely appreciate your channel!
Great video! Thanks for sharing. I'll be doing this shortly.
thank you for making this easy to find on youtube and follow.
At 20:10 Did you not try to put that wire on the 'outside' of that plate?
Aaah, 22:25 I see you did. Atta boy!
I've a 1996 993 C2 iris blue metallic, 60,000 miles, 6-speed manny tranny. My door stays are fine. I've seen other videos, on this topic, and yours, not surprisingly, is very thorough.
Thank you for all your good video work here. It is really tough getting a camera into the spots you did and get good video!
Merci beaucoup
Hi Joe, Great Video ! keep the good work. i had to do the same for the same reasons. unfortunatly forme the damage inside where bigger than yours and i had to adapt 2 bigger plate.
One question : in your set it seems that they gave you a glue to fix the plate on. did you use it? i would advise to do so, because in my case i figure out that with time and car vibrations the bolts seems to loose out and you might have some play between the metal pieces.
i know that i have to redo it all over again cause i didn't use glue as well.
keep posting man.
thank you so much for this video, my door stay guide snapped in half yesterday, i had very few tools, and i couldn't get the pin out to shut the door.finally fixed it cave man style to get proper tools to remove. following this vid to replace.
Super helpful!! I need to do this to my car also
I appreciate you creating this video, it really helped me!
Thanks. Need to replace on my 76S