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					Originally Posted by  Newsguy
					 
				 
				You are at the mileage where I'm pretty sure the source of your plastic is your cam chain tensioner wear pads. I've had a couple of M96s apart, one of indeterminate mileage and the other of 106,000 miles and both sets of pads were trashed. 
			
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I concur for the cam chain tensioner pads, the brown plastic. I would drop the oil pan to see if there are more metal bits.
		  
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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Arctic Silver 2000 Boxster S - bought with a broken engine, back on the road with the engine replaced 
Green 2000 Boxster 5-speed and 1978 928 auto 
1987 924S 5-speed (Sold) - Blue 2000 Boxster 5 spd (Sold)
			 
		
		
		
		
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