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Originally Posted by Spring44
So, where was it?
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After I set the borescope inspection camera up. Instead of falling into the flywheel housing slot the logical way, through the slot into the back of the housing. It had some how flipped toward the front (closer to the engine side) and just laying loosely in a crevice. My brother and I turned the motor several times by hand and it should have simply dropped out, nothing was binding or pinning it or holding it down. For some odd reason Newton's law of gravity wasn't working, or maybe the earth was spinning at strange axis lol. I attached the little magnet that came with the scope and it took quite a bit of trying to figure out my bearings and which direction to twist and bend, and just as I started pull back and try again the magnet caught it. So I was praying as I started pulling it out very slowly. After I got it out I immediately stuffed shop rag in the hole.I put little bit of tape on the nut and inserted it into the socket and ratcheted it into place. After I buttoned up everything I had took off and got all my wires and new battery cables zip tide and in place. I went over the car again to make sure I didn't miss a vacuum line anything else. My car fired up and idled better than it ever had. I had replaced my motor mounts several years ago and a few years back I had a shop do the timing belt, balance shaft belt, tensioners, seals, etc, etc. My car always had this idle like the passenger side motor mount had broken again, but after I started it up it's never sounded so good and no vibrations of a bad motor mount at all, even all my gauges seemed to be working properly. Before it had always ran hot even though we scanned it and the reading were good, and since I cleaned the fuel sending unit I can finally tell how much gas is in the tank. It's like when I replaced both battery cables and cleaned the grounds (though I did replace all fuses, plug wires, and a bunch of other sensors and odds and ends) just the two battery cables made a huge difference in how it's running now. It's nice to see it idling and revving smooth without any sign of a broken motor mount vibration. Thanks again everyone for your insight and help, and of course Clark's Garage page. Thanks my Porsche friends...