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Originally Posted by ganseg
Great to hear your sump pan was clean! What kind of use and maintenance has your car seen? The pros say our IMS bearings will fail, it is a matter of when. I have 120k on my S and it is a single row too.
Not an answer to your IMS question (because I have the same issue), but two other things related to your post. My clutch is harder to disengage/engage too. A service writer's first thought was that it is a bad "accumulator". It doesn't bother me enough to spend money on and I wishfully think maybe a higher performance clutch was installed by a prior owner - maybe they have stiffer springs.
On the AOS, I haven't seen people talking about them leaking externally, but since they have oil in them it is not to hard to imagine. But there shouldn't be enough oil going thru them to cause a persistent leak. I changed mine recently because of periodic smoke (once every 10+ cold starts) and didn't see evidence of my leak being from there. I have not had smoking since then and for my oil leak I am going to be changing the spark plug tubes since it is cheap and within my abilities.
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This car was a daily street driven car prior to my buying it. The prior owner drove 20+ miles each way to work so it got good and warmed up, saw a fair amount of hwy miles. No track driving, but he didn't baby it on the street. I would say he drove in enthusiastically! I got the maint records with the car and it appears to have gotten regular oil changes at 6-7000 miles average. Car got the normal 30,60,90k checkups at the dealer.
My plan is to fix the leaking o-ring near the AOS, also fix a few odds and ends(CV boot, seatbelt retractor, front tires, etc) and then drive it for awhile to make sure the oil leak stops. The clutch will need to be replaced at some point, but it's not slipping or chattering so I can live with it for a little while. I don't think these cars have a clutch accumulator like the Turbos btw. They do get hard to push in as they age is what I'm told, so I know it will need to be replaced in the future.
Thanks for all the input - I'll report back my results!
Dave R.