Not a good day for my 986S 2001. Smoke and engine dead

[ganseg]

When i changed mine recently, the one I removed was an .04. How long has that been out?

Since I changed it, I have not had my periodic smoke at startup nor my variable idle. My guess it was only in there 20k, so I do still think they can be shortlived. Maybe this car was overfilled with oil.

[woodsman]

happy for ya Tom!

[southernstar]

Yes, good news indeed! As to the warning sticker idea - there are tons of engines from various manufacturers that have various modes of failure. IMO, for engines that are typically used fairly hard and are now quite long in the tooth, the single-row IMS bearing seems to be the only truly bad piece of engineering and the only potential cause of total engine failure that occurs at a relatively high frequency. Fortunately, it is capable of pre-emptive repairs for those who are not prepared to accept that risk.

Brad

[tomc88]

just collected!

They said that all is very good. will get a little smoke on start up for a while whilst last residual oil burnt up, but all emissions are good, and no damage any where.
They've had far worse before.
They think because my rev's were low when the event happened.

new AOS, new plugs since old were non-spec and fouled, throttle cleaned out.
Apparently I have a sports exhaust manifold, so that made more work to remove the plugs.