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YOUR RESEARCHAnother IMS Bearing Failure
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Clean oil if the damage was not severe
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No successful repair reported for this finding.
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Suggestion
You can get by with flushing the engine 2 or 3 times with clean oil if the damage was not severe.
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If any is found engine must be completely disassembled, inspected & ultrasonicly cleaned to remove all metal particles.
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Suggestion
Takes 20 minutes to remove oil filter housing & inspect for metal.
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I've done it on two cars after changing the IMS bearing.
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Knew it was going to happen.....didn't count on the wife being the one driving it when it did go.
It went out while she was driving, she drove home, parked it in the garage and took it out again for at least 20 miles [to the mall and back!]. When asked whether she saw the oil on the garage floor before she took it out again, she said "I thought it was water from the sprinklers".
The damage does not look all that bad at this point. The shop is going to tear down the engine this week, then I will know the extent of the damage.
Good news in all of this? All of the new parts that are going to be put in and I have an extended warrantee. This is why I bought the extended warrantee.
2002 996 C4.
Drums
Takes 20 minutes to remove oil filter housing & inspect for metal. If any is found engine must be completely disassembled, inspected & ultrasonicly cleaned to remove all metal particles. If this is not done it continues to damage engine internally.
You can get by with flushing the engine 2 or 3 times with clean oil if the damage was not severe. I've done it on two cars after changing the IMS bearing.
I was not notified of any responses to this thread! Sorry it has taken so long to respond.
The car is a 2002 C4 with 71,000 miles.
The shop has torn it down and there seems to be some damage but not as much as might be expected. There is some light scrapes in some of the cylinder chambers, scaring in the oil pumps, etc.
The shop stopped the tear down because there is enough damage to require a complete rebuild/new engine and we might get a crate engine for less money than it would cost for a shop to do a complete rebuild.
I am looking at paying the difference to get a 4.0 crate engine [since we're in there]
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No photos at the present time but I will take some to post.
Drums
Jasper brings up a good point...
In our trading area, and I have no reason to believe it doesn't happen elsewhere, pretty much any engine failure is diagnosed as a IMS issue without any diagnosis really taking place....
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