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BikerDrew · 04-22-2010, 06:19 AM

OK; replying to myself is well... RE: IMS

I finally did a thourough reading on the Porsche achillies heal. I SHOULD have upgraded the IMS bearing assy while I was there working around it. Doh!

That leaves me with frequent oil changes for now. I changed out my 4000 mile Mobile 1 0-30 to Castrol Syn 5-30 yesterday in fact. I was surprised at how dirty all that oil was. I flushed out the oil system a little by pouring two quart, one at a time, through the engine after a thourough drain interval. This moved quite a bit of old oil out and the final result was clean oil running into the drain pan after about 30 minutes.

I used an oem filter last time and again this time. Maybe an upgrade element or better yet a spin on conversion and a Wix filter whould be a better idea.

I will set aside some time and a few bucks to do this IMS bearing upgrade job.

Thanks for all the input.

04-22-2010, 06:19 AM	#7
BikerDrew Registered User Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: SW Washington, USA Posts: 10	OK; replying to myself is well... RE: IMS I finally did a thourough reading on the Porsche achillies heal. I SHOULD have upgraded the IMS bearing assy while I was there working around it. Doh! That leaves me with frequent oil changes for now. I changed out my 4000 mile Mobile 1 0-30 to Castrol Syn 5-30 yesterday in fact. I was surprised at how dirty all that oil was. I flushed out the oil system a little by pouring two quart, one at a time, through the engine after a thourough drain interval. This moved quite a bit of old oil out and the final result was clean oil running into the drain pan after about 30 minutes. I used an oem filter last time and again this time. Maybe an upgrade element or better yet a spin on conversion and a Wix filter whould be a better idea. I will set aside some time and a few bucks to do this IMS bearing upgrade job. Thanks for all the input.