Progress today: Had high hopes of getting a lot done on the 2.7 as my first Pelican shipment has arrived. Water Pump, T-stat, 4 camshaft seals, Pelican "good-as-new" IMS bearing, tensioner o-rings and seals, and new AOS. I fabricated some camshaft holders out of a piece of stock and they worked better than expected. Pulled the tensioners and nothing moved. Went to use my homemade IMS bearing puller and discovered that the threaded shaft on the center blank was smaller that that on the 1999 2.5l boxster that I made the tool for. you can see video of the tool and the results from the 2.5 here:
https://youtu.be/3WvianmKEAg Anyway, I'm going to have to make some corrections to the tool tomorrow at work and then hopefully pull and install the bearing tomorrow. I videoed the whole thing and will be posting to You Tube as well as pics/Narrative here. If you want to follow progress, please subscribe to the channel associated to the link above or check back here for updates. I'm really enjoying this project and excited to share with anyone interested. Again, thanks for following and I hope to have some pics up this week.