Porsche IMS Seal Replacement

[@iiChromEo]

As a Swisstrax owner myself, I appreciate you breaking the stereotype that we don’t tinker on our cars in our own garage! Props on the video 👍

[@DasCayman]

I do all my own work… everything except alignments :)

[@waixiong7127]

This video will save people tons of money!! Hopefully I have the money to purchase a 2015 Porsche boxster S in the next few years!

[@rauldeleon6728]

Absolutely love your videos bro!!! Greetings from Texas

[@DasCayman]

Appreciate the feedback! These videos don't do so well with the views, but I know that I would have liked it when I did my own work so I try to pay it forward for the next guy / community.

[@xman25ru]

Don know how I found but thanks a lot the pure vibes of properly owning best Porsche ! Greatings from the Fat East coast of Russia 😊

[@DasCayman]

Thank you! All the best!

[@19lol19]

Nice

[@frederickcook87]

👌🏾❤️👌🏾

[@MrAnticaArte]

For everyone watching this video, PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS. The engine must be locked at TDC bank 1 and the chain tensioners (at least the 2 accessible ones) removed. This is by far the most dangerous procedure to how remove the IMS flage. You should go play a lottery thicket, you have no idea how lucky you are that the engine didn't jump a tooth.

[@DasCayman]

I'm just trying to understand how the engine can jump a tooth when everything is under tension and not loose? If the chains were loosened and the procedure was done this way then we can have a conversation. Out of hundreds of cars that had their IMS seals replaced this way, not one was returned back using this method. Obviously do what is right for you and what you feel comfortable doing, but I wanted to show others another way to do it that is not verbatim by the Porsche workshop manual.

[@MrAnticaArte]

​@@DasCayman Your way is like Russian roulette. There is a reason why Porsche put together a procedure that is safe 100% of the time. You got super lucky, but don't listen to me, do your research so you will understand why.

[@RobertWelchman]

You are extremely lucky you didn't jump timing!!! You need to lock down the camshafts and remove the tensioners to do this properly!! There is an alternative method floating out there where you insert 3 set screws through the flange bolts and press against the internals of the shaft to keep your IMS from moving....DO NOT DO THIS METHOD...ask me how I know...I jumped a tooth on the exhaust cam and hand to fix that.

[@DasCayman]

I showed this comment to my engine builder and he said that the entire engine is under tension, so this concern, assuming you did it exactly the way in the video, is not really something to be worried about.

[@MrAnticaArte]

​@@DasCayman Tell your engine builder to change job.

[@MrAnticaArte]

Exactly. Also, when you pray on the IMS shaft, I am sure there was some damage on the thread, which is very soft, and it requires some force to overcome the tensioner. Lucky, very very lucky.

[@DasCayman]

@@MrAnticaArte All I can say is that a lot of Porsche techs do it this way....

[@DasCayman]

@@MrAnticaArte Just did this again without issue, fyi. Cheers. You can't jump a tooth if the chain is in tension around the gears. Impossible. It'd be like trying to take a motorcycle chain off the sprockets without releasing tension first...