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Old 08-03-2012, 10:48 AM   #17
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ps - sniff your oil!!! gas in oil apparently can facilitate ims breakdown (gas acts as a solvent to scour grease and oil from the bearing i guess). a dripping injector, coupled with not running your engine long/hard enough to burn the gas out of the oil (hence the rumoured trend of ims failure happening more to cars driven lightly or with a long interval between oil changes) could create these conditions.
Sniff the oil is good advice (an artical I read a while ago):

What's that smell?

Glad to hear you've solved the problem.

Regards,
paul...
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