Harry is becoming quite the star! Very endearing, and so good to see you enjoying him (her) so much. My 5c - Polish those rims, clean with acetone and apply ceramic coat. They won't tarnish and brake dust just rinses off.

If you modify the seat frame front hinge so it has a removable pin(s) it would be removable as a ‘quick release’ if you need bigger items in the back or want to track without the seat or use the passenger space for storage 👍

Love the detail work. It's one thing to get a car up and running, and it's another thing entirely to make it a pleasure to drive and live with.

Hey Jeff, wheel and tyre cleaner is meant for painted wheels and not aluminium, either natural or anodized, as it has a caustic base and eats away at aluminium and aluminium oxide, whether it be on raw or anodised aluminium. Anodizing is stupidly hard (think just less than diamond hard), so your attempts at sanding and polishing probably didn't take that off, but merely shined up the aluminium where the anodizing has been eaten away, and as the aluminium goes dull it will show up again. Best thing to do right now is to take the wheels to a reputable anodizing shop and have them re-anodized, as even clearcoat will not stick to raw aluminium for long You will have a choice of bright anodizing, which has a chrome like finish, or normal which has a satin finish. They will incidentally use a caustic solution to remove what remains. You are at least lucky in that Fuchs are forged and not cast, so they can actually be re-anodized without much fuss.

Please don’t paint the rims Jeff, they look so good bare aluminium….just polish them once a month 🙂

Glad those burn marks look better, thought OH NO 😲 when you posted on Instagram!!

Those seat tilts are a great idea. I might look at getting one for the passengers side as well

I bet your heart sunk when you saw the wheels after the wash. I think that they look just right with polished lips! What people use to protect polished wheel lips here in the nordics is just regular wax or ceramic coating for longer lasting finish. I bet Harry does not see really harsh weather (think road salt for several months) so the lips should stay just fine for a season with just one application. Great video as usual, keep up the good work!

Interesting episode as usual, my heart sank with the wheels, what a bugger .

The anodizing is basically a sort of a hardened corrosion layer that protects the aluminium underneath. To fix that you have to remove(sand) the anodized layer off, polish the aluminium and then you can re-anodize them. They'll look exactly like before or you can even choose to anodize them in a particular color if you want. Or you could just polish them and then put a transparent powder coat over it for protection. And also with this you can tint the transparent powder coat with any color if you want.

Barrel brothers in Sydney could probably re anodize them mate OR you could do a home anodizing kit?

If you’re concerned about them tarnishing, spray them with a suitable clear coat. Use 1500, 2000, 3000 grit wet and dry then polish them. They’ll be better than new.

Maybe check out the Bowdens range of cleaners next time? I've been using them for over a decade and they are awesome. Just a thought.

I still don’t understand why your video title wasn’t, “How to Fuch your Fuchs!” Another good vid mate.

Same problem on my anno wheels, I polished an 2k flat clear

I wouldn't be too concerned about the wheels tarnishing Jeff, I polished a set of globes for my Fiat Spider about 8 years ago and they still look good. They're not as shinny as when first polished but have just dulled to a nice silver finish, I've never had "white rust" form on them

Wheels look good. Definitely good enough for a non-show car. Good job.

Guillermo de Orange....Harry or Willy ???? The music of your videos reminds me to "Midnight Oil", lovely.

The Fuchs on my '78 were specced as polished aluminium rims - not anodised -- the black centres are anodised and remain shiny. Mainly because they haven't felt the salty roads and acid rain of the Northern hemisphere (The reason Porsche recommended Vaseline on the anodised bits) Of course the polished rims will become pitted and and stained by brake dust and road grime. But the surface being soft and easily repolished to a mirror finish if you feel the need with autosol or similar. I do mine once or twice a year. Coated rims will not enjoy harsh cleaners , and the damage requires a lot of remedying with the added $ cost.

Hi Jeff. I'm pretty late with this reply, but found this video particularly intriguing. I think that the fact that we know a factory Fuchs wheel from the period had an anodized surface really has no bearing on the 17" replica wheels that are on your car. I would in fact expect that your wheels have no anodizing at all, based on the gloss of the finish and the amount of metal that came off while buffing. The anodizing of polished aluminum usually imparts a slight flattening effect, and also shows a rainbow hue in sunlight. The etching that you got from your wheel cleaner was likely because the wheels were simply bare aluminum. I also thought that I would share my thoughts on your tilting seat bracket. The agony of not being able to get into the rear of the car is real (!), but those tilt brackets are seriously unsafe for a track-driven car. Even a seat slider is a compromise from a safety standpoint, and now you have added a secondary latch system. Yes, I know that your seatbelts will be pulling backwards, but even the lateral support of that setup in a rollover crash would worry me. And we want you to be safe so we can watch more of your great videos. :-)

Hi Jeff. That Suchs about your Fuchs.. Have an idea. Painting the wheel rims silver might not be a bad idea if your going to drive the Porsche regularly & used wheel cleaners .. I suggest having a look at *titanium silver* paint. It's used on all modern car alloys and looks like a cross between base silver & chrome... Paint the rims with titanium silver, clear coat it. Then completely clean the whole rim inside and out and use ceramic coating on the whole rim... With the titanium silver, having an almost polished look, will contrast with the dull silver in the centre & will look like a dull polished aluminum finish... ..from a distance. .. Love Fuchs alloys most iconic Porsche wheels IMO. Even more so than telephone dial. Porsche rims.... .. That engine sounds sweet ..👍

Awesome 👍🏽👍🏻 good you got something sorted 😀👍🏽

Is something shorting when you mount the switch/motor back in the car? If it works when removed maybe there’s something being pinched etc

I polished my Fuchs years ago, once a year is fine for keeping them shiney.

Forgive my ignorance, but after a light sand or polish could you spray with a clear to stop oxidation?

Oven cleaning mouse/gel is fantastic at removing anodising before polishing

Fuchs Wheels - I sympathise having had a similar experience! Headache/exasperating.

Practice makes perfect! I seem to redo thinks until get it correct

Anodising doesn't conduct electricity whereas bare aluminium will so measuring resistance between 2 points on the wheel may give some idea how much anodising is left not sure how sensitive it is though, so sorry may not be too useful.

Hi Jeff. I had a similar problem a few years ago, after a lot of head scratching, I found that if I isolated the motor, on nylon mounts, everything worked fine. This was a LHD to RHD conversion and the RHD motor must have had some different internals even though though the plugs were the same. Might help.

It’s disappointing that wiper’ s issue. In fact, thanks to one of your previous videos on it, I fixed mine, and it was a problem on the switch. I repaired it in half hour and so I didn’t have to dismantle the whole system.

Like the seat tilt, I've been looking at the same so good to see one being handled by a human.

Optima used to be a great battery but lately they’ve been average, we have over 10 piled up at work for warranty

A very perfect Update about the Beautyfull Harry ❤️👍❤️

btw your car sounds really good.

Hey what about if you tilt sideways with open door. That will give you all the space you have behind to storage biggest things

Can you clear coat wheels?

What about a clear coat acrylic paint over the wheels to stop them dulling. Have fun.

Somebody has probably already said this in the comments. Anodizing is just an aluminum oxide, in fact sapphire. Both it and aluminum can be etched by things with a basic ph, like lye. Many detergents and degreasers, for example Simple Green, are basic and will both etch aluminum and anodizing. Actually common way to strip anodizing is lye. Just metal polish may not have actually removed the anodizing. You might have made it thinner. You're correct you will know later where the anodizing has rubbed through because it will oxidize. If it's unacceptable it's not uncommon to strip the anodizing, polish it, and then paint it with a standard 2K clear. In the future however just be careful with which cleaners you use on aluminum. Neutral pH or acid pH are acceptable. And as you've pointed out good old soap and water are really pretty much the best. The car looks fantastic. Please post a pure sound video. A nice long one.

If it’s like wiper motors I’ve taken apart, it will have moving contacts inside that run on tracks making and breaking the circuit to control park position etc, so is it moving slightly to a position where it shorts?

Jeff, I had similar problems with my wipers following hitting a speed hump too hard; each time I put them on the fuse blew. Tried another column switch with no success but didn't try another motor. I did fix it but cannot be sure how BUT my theory is this. 911s of that era used thin strips of flexible metal welded to the shell to hold the wiring harnesses. These should be insulated but overtime the insulation often went missing meaning that sharp corners and edges were exposed. I think on my car, following the heavy jolt, one of these sharp points punctured the wiring and shorted it to earth, causing the fuse to blow. I checked all the strips, replaced the insulation where needed and the fault disappeared. Might be worth checking on your car. Can you post details of the fault-finding tool you featured, please? Cheers

Might come out to see you when you come to wodonga. Would be nice to see harry in The flesh.

Yeah i made a similar mistake... pressure washed my anondized lips and now theres a single line through them....

Clear powdercoat?

Bead Blast plus Clearcoat?

Have you tried not pushing the seat forward before you tilt it? I reckon you will get more of a gap as the head rest will hit the roof later. Worth go?

Perhaps a couple of coats of clear might help protect the sheen

Polish with “Flitz” or get the wheels professionally finished

what about clear powder coating? seems like it can go on bare aluminium. the only issue i foresee is the heat from the bake. if the paint/coating on the rest of the wheels can withstand it. but you could have the whole wheel powder coated in the same colour scheme.

Give Barrel Brothers a ring if you dicide to do something with those wheels. I bet they can fix them.

hey big guy, your background music..I know the song from somewhere. An 80's song but I just can't remember the name of it. What it is?

Why not get the rims re-anodised?

HI JEFF

Could polish and clear coat your wheels.

if the lips shined with polish, I doubt if the lips were anodised in the first place. Since youre already at this point, might as well shine them up properly and re polish them once a year or something. The finish should stay good for upto a year usually. Ceramic coat doesnt work so well on bare metal. I actually have ceramic coated my exhaust manifold heatsheild and its going strong after a year but its because it rarely sees any soap or scrubbing - which wont be the case with your wheels

Sharkhide great protectant of raw metals, of all kinds..

Look pretty business like polished..

I like the optima battery because they are a military battery and can take a 50 cal and still keep on going to get the soldiers out of trouble

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First! (Couldn't resist, never happened before). That tilting seat mount will be a boon, almost makes Harry a tourer! Could you use clear-coat of some kind on the wheel rims?

Automotive clearcoat protects bare aluminium ;) Just a thought....

It would not cost that much to have the wheels professionally restored and clear coated.

Alternate title - “How to Fuchs Up Your Wheels”

How dare you ruin my wheels?? Yes. You heard me right..... 😉😉 My last name is actually Fuchs...... 😁

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Spray some fuel resistant clear coat on the Wheels to prevent oxidisation.

No offence, that fusebox is a mess 😁

chrome your wheels its so much better

3rd time's the charm

Don´t get obsessive with your front wheels, you are a racer not a catwalk model. Let this "Fuchs" wheels be like they are....."80´s" and dirty.

There are anodizing services around. Don't paint the rims. What a horrible, horrible idea.

Porches suck! Back onto alfarrari

Mr muscle will remove the ano

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