How many labor hours for clutch, pressure plate, RMS and IMS replacement ?

[pbkirby]

Trying to estimate for budget purposes, independent shop will do the work.

[WhipE350]

I am just finishing mine myself and of course it took me many hours but I am a rookie and the first time is slowwwww. I would let Wayne/JP/Pedro talk to this but I'm thinking it would be a 10 to 14 hour job maybe. If someone has pulled a Boxster transmission many times then they would be using a lot of speed wrenching and fly through this.

[JFP in PA]

Depending upon the transmission type (Tips are more difficult and take more time, and on some 911's require pulling the engine and trans as a unit), you should expect to be roughly in the 10-12 billable hours range with most shops. Some people get upset when they are quoted this, and then the car is done in 8 or 9 hours, but what they lose sight of is the fact that part of the time more than one person was working on the car.

[WhipE350]

Thanks JFP! My rookie guesses are getting better. I also did my AOS, Slave, and Oil fill tube (what a b-tch without proper tools). Of course clutch and RMS. I also took time to clean and shine stuff up. Too cold to go down there tonight.

Side question JFP, my IMS was really hard to take out and the new one wasn't much nicer putting back in. I had froze it for a good 24 hours too. I ended up having to beat it in pretty hard. Maybe it got started slightly off center but it didn't look it at all. I'm concerned that pounding is not good for whatever is holding the other side of the IMS shaft. What are your thoughts. I check all the cams and they rotate perfectly after the job.

Thank you for any thoughts.

[JFP in PA]

The ones that come out hard usually also go back in the same way, they are a press fit. While "pounding" can always be problematic, sometimes it is unavoidable.