aos failure now car cranks once then nothing

[kyporsche]

[QUOTE=Starter986;617504]I don't believe the wash had anything to do with it... unless you were spraying copious amount of water into the intake. My first guess is that your AOS went kaput. The first thing I would do is remove the tope AOS hose... give it an examination... see if it has a LOT of oil in it. A little is ok... a lot... I'd then pull the throttle body and see if it isn't flooded with oil. That may explain the no-start issue. Worst case sceanrio... you sucked a bunch of oil into the engine... and that'll require correction.

Do some searches on "white smoke 986 Boxster"... "AOS failure 986 Boxster"... you'll find of lots of information.

so the mechanic at my dealership got the car to start and now it sounds like the lifters are also toast, he quickly shut it down and we are going to move forward with examining the plugs and changing the aos

[Starter986]

[QUOTE=kyporsche;617551]

Originally Posted by Starter986

I don't believe the wash had anything to do with it... unless you were spraying copious amount of water into the intake. My first guess is that your AOS went kaput. The first thing I would do is remove the tope AOS hose... give it an examination... see if it has a LOT of oil in it. A little is ok... a lot... I'd then pull the throttle body and see if it isn't flooded with oil. That may explain the no-start issue. Worst case sceanrio... you sucked a bunch of oil into the engine... and that'll require correction.

Do some searches on "white smoke 986 Boxster"... "AOS failure 986 Boxster"... you'll find of lots of information.

so the mechanic at my dealership got the car to start and now it sounds like the lifters are also toast, he quickly shut it down and we are going to move forward with examining the plugs and changing the aos

Man... I hope it's something simple like the AOS. Lifters toast? Keep us posted... we like closure.

Best wishes. Se you around.

[thstone]

Originally Posted by kyporsche

so the mechanic at my dealership got the car to start and now it sounds like the lifters are also toast, he quickly shut it down and we are going to move forward with examining the plugs and changing the aos

Wow. I'd really like to know a lot more about what's going on...

[911monty]

I'd certainly recommend at minimum a compression test before I changed the AOS.

[maytag]

Originally Posted by kyporsche

so the mechanic at my dealership got the car to start and now it sounds like the lifters are also toast, he quickly shut it down and we are going to move forward with examining the plugs and changing the aos

Lifter failure?
That's odd, to say the least. Sometimes "a lifter" will fail. But for multiple lifters to fail simultaneously? That's odd. Really odd.

So in my mind I'm considering all of the scenarios I can think of that would result in that diagnosis.
If multiple lifters are bad, this suggests an oil pressure problem. So what might cause white smoke AND oil pressure issues? I'm struggling to come up with something plausible.

What I think IS unfortunately plausible, is that your mechanic suspects lifter failure because he did a compression check. However, the same symptoms could point to broken-bits, which is more consistent with the rest of your symptoms. ie: aos fails, motor ingests liquid oil and hydra-locks. This creates the "will only turn a 1/4 turn", assumption, and that 1/4 turn was enough to break hard parts.

I dunno.... I'm reaching here.

I sure want to know more about what he finds.

It's POSSIBLE that the white smoke and now 1/4 turn only are unrelated. ?

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