[rustyh]

Thanks for having me in the Forum everyone, hope all is well.

Rather than right out a long story, I will summerise my current position. I have a Boxster S 986 sitting in on the drive. It suffered an engine failure around 2 years ago, and due to my circumstances at the time, It has be sat there ever since. I had however dropped the engine out which is sat in the garage.

Anyway, my circumstances have allowed me to revisit this, and hopefully get it all back up and running. Albeit there are probably more parts seized that will need to work also now.

From what I can tell, the common fault of the IMS bearing failed (symptoms back then were loud knocking / screeching and sometime the engine would struggle and try and stall.
With the engine out, gear box off, and a good study, it seems to be the IMS bearing, found that the outer shell of the bearing seems to moves within its engine mounting.

So I plan to purchase the pelican parts retro replacement.

The reason for this thread is to ask if, while the engine is out the car, should I look to do anything else? Like pop the heads off and clean the piston tops and chamber heads down ect?

Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

The car is at 120k miles (193k km) by the way