996 - Good Maintenance to Do While Engine/Tranny Dropped?
03-15-2011, 01:10 PM
#16
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ummm you guys are missing the point. he has a tip which mean that the tech has to take out the 6mm bolts through the starter hole to free up the flex plate. I have done it many times with the engine in a boxster (huge pain in the ***) but never in a 996, In fact i bet you DO have to drop the engine....
03-15-2011, 01:15 PM
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I dropped a line to Charles at LN Engineering - great guy, very helpful, and he is pretty sure that I will have to drop the engine and the tranny in one unit for the later Tiptronic models.
My mechanic hinted that dropping the engine with tranny (in and out) is a 12 hour job - and thus the purpose for this thread, to get advice on other things that I should investigate doing. With the engine and tranny on the floor (the Porsche equivalent of "open heart surgery"), there's probably a ton of stuff that can be done more easily - such as the LN IMS upgrade, and maybe a few other things (if it needs it).
My mechanic hinted that dropping the engine with tranny (in and out) is a 12 hour job - and thus the purpose for this thread, to get advice on other things that I should investigate doing. With the engine and tranny on the floor (the Porsche equivalent of "open heart surgery"), there's probably a ton of stuff that can be done more easily - such as the LN IMS upgrade, and maybe a few other things (if it needs it).
03-15-2011, 02:24 PM
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I dropped a line to Charles at LN Engineering - great guy, very helpful, and he is pretty sure that I will have to drop the engine and the tranny in one unit for the later Tiptronic models.
My mechanic hinted that dropping the engine with tranny (in and out) is a 12 hour job - and thus the purpose for this thread, to get advice on other things that I should investigate doing. With the engine and tranny on the floor (the Porsche equivalent of "open heart surgery"), there's probably a ton of stuff that can be done more easily - such as the LN IMS upgrade, and maybe a few other things (if it needs it).
My mechanic hinted that dropping the engine with tranny (in and out) is a 12 hour job - and thus the purpose for this thread, to get advice on other things that I should investigate doing. With the engine and tranny on the floor (the Porsche equivalent of "open heart surgery"), there's probably a ton of stuff that can be done more easily - such as the LN IMS upgrade, and maybe a few other things (if it needs it).
03-17-2011, 10:02 AM
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