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I really hate the mid to late 90’s car designs, almost every car looks like it’s smiling (more obvious on Ferrari’s though)
Great video Jeff! I personally use 50 weight oil year-round as I live in the Caribbean (85-100 F avg) and the car sees mainly city traffic, but that grade sometimes is hard to find. In fact, 40 weight oil is also getting hard to find as well as most cars nowadays use 20 and 30 weight. The cabin air filter should have a foam shroud on top of it, mainly to keep water out that may leak between the gasket on the cowl cover and the windshield. Lastly, on the engine air filter, I used K&N in the past. The sound is amazing but switched away from them as I was finding really fine dust inside the plenum. I just went back to OEM.
Hi Jeff, you are my favorite DIY guy!
I don't know why anything other than the heat shields on the valve covers and the individual coils needs to be removed to access spark plugs. I have never had to remove the rear bumper, mufflers or anything else on a 996 to replace the spark plugs. A high quality magnetic spark pug socket such as Hazet, Mac or Span On does make life easier, however
Great video Jeff, 996s are just a beast aren't they?
Did you happen to check the oil pan for glitter as well?
Mine had a few very small sparkly bits in it after 3600km, so I had the oil analysed and it passed with flying colors.
Its a 996.2 with 69K on it.
Does this engine has glued water inlets/outlets as hoovies turbo has? i see those more worse than IMS bearing
I just found out the hard way but in the 996.1 they had a recall on the brake booster as they filled with water once the drain holes blocked inside the plenum chamber. Check the drain holes if you haven't already. Mine just failed due to being water logged. The fix is to replace the entire brake push rod assembly as well as the updated booster as they don't make the old ones anymore. There is a Tech bulletin on it but it's a real pain so definitely check it as it's your daily. Cheers
Please keep making 996 videos! I love working on mine!
UK import Jeff? The front licence plate is quite long.
Do you have 8"/10" wheels? What tyre sizes did you go with? I wanted to get PS4s, but found that the rear 285/30 size I wanted didn't exist… At the moment I have 235/40 PS4 front and 285/30 PS2 rear, but I am still looking for some kind of improvement on that…
You'll want to take off the front bumper and loosen the front coolers, a lot of leaves and gunk gets caught in between the cooler and the condenser.
Btw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK329_MhMuM
Re the IMS bearing wear, you should get a Durametric OBD scanner and measure the cam timing variance. Changing the IMS is not too hard when you have a lift, I have done 3 at home. I used the LN Engineering, but the oil fed solid bush versions look interesting. Changing the splark plugs is straightforward, but you need to pull the mufflers off. Thats about half a dozen bolts per side and maybe 15 mins. I can do the whole job in less than 2 hours now. Good idea to check the coil packs for cracking, they usually last less than 100k km and then they start to misfire.
Spark plugs?
I had the Michelin PS4s on my car. The difference was between night and day compared to other tyres I had on it. Easily the best tyres in the world.
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Great result with the oil filter dissection Jeff, that Intermediate Shaft bearing failure possibility is something to be taken seriously.
Did you check your transmission oil levels this service?
Jeff did you check whether the K&N oil is safe on the Porsche MAF sensor?
Michelin's are the best! Good choice…I bet most people re-use the drain plug drain washer especially when they are like $5 plus each….I sometimes use teflon tape…don't tell anyone…
I've got to 6:12, don't tell me this is the last video. The bonnet falls as he takes the strut out? I hope not, Jeff and Mrs Jeff do good stuff. Had a health and safety course at work today.
If you're only changing the brake discs, please sand your pads to shape and dont forget the edges.
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Jeff you can always send the oil off for analysis and they give you a quick summary of what they find. Bearing material etc