Dropping both Engine and Trans to do IMS?

[auBoxster]

Originally Posted by JFP in PA

The only time we have seen the newer PTFE RMS seal leak is when they were installed incorrectly, with the wrong installed depth, dirty seal area, or use of any kind of sealer being the most common issues. If the crank and seal bore were cleaned, and the seal installed dry and to the correct spec, they seem bullet proof.

Unfortunately not everyone in the world can get you to perform their RMS seal change - so they have to rely on themselves or someone else to do it right, and that's taking a chance that it won't be done correctly (as you've pointed out).

So when the RMS wasn't leaking, taking that chance for no extra gain seems a little bold and bordering on foolish.... YMMV

[JFP in PA]

Originally Posted by auBoxster

Unfortunately not everyone in the world can get you to perform their RMS seal change - so they have to rely on themselves or someone else to do it right, and that's taking a chance that it won't be done correctly (as you've pointed out).

So when the RMS wasn't leaking, taking that chance for no extra gain seems a little bold and bordering on foolish.... YMMV

You make it sound overly complicated, and it definitely is not. Many people have even made their own tools to do this, and completed 100% successful installations. I've even seen it done correctly using a $4 CPVC pipe coupler and the old flywheel bolts. This is not rocket science.............

And your "gain" is a seal that will probably never leak.

[auBoxster]

Originally Posted by JFP in PA

You make it sound overly complicated, and it definitely is not.

You know you're trying to sell it both ways right...

Be extra careful installing it to the correct depth and stay within 1 billionth of a mm of the crank's end bits; ensure it is microscopically clean with zero fingerprints on the seal or on any nearby parts with a 1 foot radius; and don't install it slightly off centre of which you need to use Porsche special tool ABC with toolkit XYZ which will keep you within 10 kms of the equator. Follow these tips or it will leak all the oil in the first crank etc.... and you ordered the right seal too yeah?

Oh, and the process is so easy a blind monkey could do it... in fact every grandma with a wrench does them before lawn bowls on Sundays using just used toilet parts that having been cobbled together using tape, glue, spare cut bolts and a toe nail clipper.

So yeah why wouldn't you do it !?

I'm happy having left the working RMS alone and will investigate it again if it ever decides to leak, and I'm fine with that decision :-)

G