Before I drained my oil and dropped the transmission to install a deep sump, ims, rms, etc, I did a Durametric read and found my cam deviation on bank 2 to be -7.4. I had never checked it before and upon seeing it I was a little bummed. I was not mentally prepared to tackle fixing it but knowing I need to before doing the ims.
I dropped the pan and found lots of brown cam pad bits. Grrrrrr..... Car has 66k miles and needs pads. Good thing I love this car....
Because I needed to drop the transmission for the work anyway it was a quick decision to drop the engine too to do the work on a stand.
I don’t have a lift and don’t like extending jack stands more than a couple of holes. I also don’t like using stands other than Esco style because of fear or the car sliding off the normal jack stand seats. So I wanted share how I got the car high enough to pull the engine out after dropping it without removing the cross member or removing the bumper.
My neighbor and fellow Porsche owner is a GC and we decided to build some stands for the jackstands and also the jack (jack max lift is not high enough). We used some leftover engineered lumber, construction adhesive, and 4” screws. Stands were designed to give a foot in height.
Jackstand stand top and bottom plates are 2 x 12” microlam beams cut 10” in length. Uprights are 3 x 10” gluelam beams cut 8” in length. All mating surfaces were given a healthy bead of construction adhesive and each corner fastened with 3 4” screws top and bottom. We cut additional lengths of microlams for additional height.
The platform for the jack is the same microlam beam cut a few inches longer than the jack with 6x6” uprights with some notches and strips to keep the jack centered.
When we were done building them my friend said ‘you could park your house on these.’
Some pics. The cross member is 31” high.
Now I am trying to decide on what additional work I should do with the engine out without going way overboard as I tend to do.
What work have you all done after engine removal to make balancing time/cost and at the same time not regretting omitting something?