I agree with Landrovered. I just got back from Maryland and joined into this thread and my first thought was ......Fuel Pump, Not IMS. As I read down ? FUEL PUMP!!! Been there, Done it !!! Glad the problem is solved. Max

Almost forgotten..
 

Hopefully this thread helps a few others out too.

At the time I checked the fuel pump and knew it was still pumping, just didn't have a way to test the pressure. Confirms my amature skills are just that.

Ended up doing a grocery list of "while I'm there" maintenance and have been driving the car with no problems since. There was clear seepage at the IMS when we pulled the transmission. The LN Engineering upgrade was completed. In my day job I work with forensic engineers doing origin/cause analysis. The research on the IMS is there and it clearly shows a trend supporting this as a failure point. Of course not every one fails and that leaves room for different interpretations, but I'm a believer.

A couple of plugs since it's been over a year......I called and left a message for Jake Raby and I can't say enough good about him. He called me around 7 pm (his time) on a Friday night and talked to me like a good friend of years. He talked about ways to diagnose the potential problems and shared his knowledge freely. He answered a lot of questions with no selling going on, just a genuine commitment of his time.

I also remember being thankful for every single reply when I was going through this. I have healthy respect for BYprodriver (and his informative threads - I only wish I had those skills) as well as mikefocke's well done write-ups. I took all the free advise I was given and researched it all. I went down a few wrong paths but learned lots.

Since we seem to be doing closing statements I will make mine.

Bypro was not the point of the rant but he took it that way and got his nose bent out of shape, So whatever, my reading comprehension tested in the top percentile for 2nd graders and that is good enough for me.

Jake is one person who I place partial responsibility for the current hysteria on and I have told him so on this forum and would gladly tell him in person. His "Tick Tick Boom" ads were over the top, that combined with the candor of his threads like "just saved another one mere seconds from disaster" and "IMS's are failing all around me" (I am paraphrasing) posts have not helped. He has done some good work and is now profiting from it handsomely, which is fine with me, but dont tell me it is purely altruism because it is not. Yelling fire in a theater is my real beef with Raby.

and then there are the folks like you and me that are typical anal retentive porsche owners that allow ourselves to become obsessed with technical imperfections in our otherwise nearly perfect cars. Like a small flake of paint we insist on picking at it with our fingernail until the small blemish becomes far worse. We are allowing ourselves to be manipulated and paying big time bucks for the pleasure.

There does seem to be more reality checking going on with the issue and Pelican is offering a low cost option which is welcomed. With the LN bearing, the Guardian, the Pelican bearing and articles in every Porsche magazine in the world I would contend that it is time for us as a group to move past the IMS hysteria, move on to greener technical pastures and enjoy our cars.