Probably one for the Hartech team, but all contributions welcome......
M96 engine M96/0366309931. In my 2003 996 C2. Original engine, looking at the paperwork and dated as an 03 engine.
I should have the single row IMS in this.
My car is in with an Indie to fix the RMS, amongst other work, so was going to have the uprated LN type IMS done at the same time. The Indie, as you can imagine, has done quote a few of these.
Gearbox off, done the RMS, BUT........... the IMS can't be replaced, as the crank cases and IMS itself is the later M97 style IMS.
This is pretty odd. He's not seen it before, except in a replacement engine, so I am trying work out what might have gone on.
I have lots of paperwork, but nothing specific to a crank case/IMS swap.
The only paperwork that looks interesting, is an Invoice from Porsche Solihull for a customer contribution to an RMS in March 2007.
So, the question I have:
M96 engine M96/0366309931. In my 2003 996 C2. Original engine, looking at the paperwork and dated as an 03 engine.
I should have the single row IMS in this.
My car is in with an Indie to fix the RMS, amongst other work, so was going to have the uprated LN type IMS done at the same time. The Indie, as you can imagine, has done quote a few of these.
Gearbox off, done the RMS, BUT........... the IMS can't be replaced, as the crank cases and IMS itself is the later M97 style IMS.
This is pretty odd. He's not seen it before, except in a replacement engine, so I am trying work out what might have gone on.
I have lots of paperwork, but nothing specific to a crank case/IMS swap.
The only paperwork that looks interesting, is an Invoice from Porsche Solihull for a customer contribution to an RMS in March 2007.
So, the question I have:
- Would Porsche have potentially swapped out crank cases/IMS during the RMS swap, if, when they pulled the gearbox they saw the leak was not RMS, but IMS seal.
Has this type of thing been seen before (I'm thinking Hartech going through 1000 engines might have seen it if it was a practice by Porsche at the time)
I am expecting people to say that it would have been a new engine job, but that would show up on the engine code, right?
