[kuehjo]

I've been considering your remarks concerning rebuilding and replacing. Please dont take my following comments as critical - I just have a different point of view - and I am open to being corrected if I am mistaken.

I believe that many Porsche owners have the financial means to proceed with a rebuild or replace - but I know some are struggling to financially support their affection for their machine.

NO-ONE wants any kind of debris in their engine or contaminating their oil - but the entire point of the oil pickup screen and filter is to REMOVE these kinds of contaminants before they can damage the rotating assembly.

That said, if the bearing is failing, but the timing has not jumped teeth, in most cases it would seem to me that these engines should be salvageable. The bearing should be replaced, the oil and filter should be changed, and perhaps some version of a flush or a quick oil change (maybe at 100 miles) should be adequate to put these engines back in serviceable condition?

I'm not a Porsche mechanic so feel free to take what I say with a grain of salt, nor do I mean to cause any offense - just offering an alternate perspective - and I might be wrong.... I'm decent at working on my own cars, and I have rebuilt a 928 engine. It just sometimes seems to me that there is the mystique built up about Porsche engineering that is a little over the top - these machines are still just machines. The machine work is just machine work, and the specs are measured as they are in any other engine rebuild. I think Jake Raby's course in engine rebuilding would be immensely interesting and enlightening, but mandatory? Maybe - but maybe not...