Engine Tin Seal Cracked; Repair/Replace w/o Dropping Engine?

[spoke]

Car is '86 930. The engine tin seal opposite the fan is gone; hardened and cracked away. Almost one foot of seal is cracked away. The fan sucks in hot air from the turbo/exhaust.

Can the seal be repaired or replaced without dropping the engine? This can't be the first 911 with this issue.

Here's some bad pictures of the seal. The O2 sensor wire runs through the gap where the seal should be. The engine support in front of the fan gets very hot having the hot air from the exhaust blowing over it.

[David Inc.]

It's a gigantic pain in the ass putting that seal in with the engine completely out. At the very least you'd have to lower the engine a few inches (not dropping it out though) just to be able to get the seal around the tin.

I can imagine a way to do it but even in my imagination I'm starting to swear and throw things across the garage.

You'll never replace the seal on the other side of the bay with the engine in though, may as well do it all at once. While you wait for a reason to drop the engine you can always make a patch out of some adhesive rubber hi-temp strips from McMaster, as nasty as it might sound.

[917_Langheck]

Spoke, is that part no. 930.504.170.01? I wonder if you can reinstall by dropping the rear bumper assembly and the bulky parts of the exhaust....