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Originally Posted by wikan
thank you for your patience. And would love to know how you get the shortcuts to the conversations which went before!!!If you ever make it down Virginia way, I owe you a day on the river, or three!!!!
Cautious I my be, but not interested in mucking this up!
If I interpret correctly,03 US spec Boxster 2.7,engine in car, I need to place the camlock on the "passenger side, same side as "front of the engine where the serpentine belt is" in order to use the easily accessed chain tensioner. (what I call the right bank- as seen from rear of the car.
This is opposite of where I initially trial fitted the lock it in the picture I posted! It would be a lot easier to use the accessible tensioner due to engine still in car means A/C compressor is in situ..
I can see if the engine was out of car, then A/C compressor blocking the would not be an issue...
Is there a liability to using the easily accessed tensioner and placing the camlock on the front of the engine ?
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OK, first of all, you are starting to totally over think this thing, and are also not taking into account that the instructions for changing the IMS out on a 996 are left/right reversed for a 986 as the engine faces the other way about in a 996 (the flywheel faces the front of the car in a 996, the rear of the car in a 986).
While you only need to use one cam lock tool, and remove only two tensioners to do this job, if you wanted to use both cam locks, and remove three tensioners (which would include the one under the AC), I would suggest you watch this video of the process, again noting that this is a 996, so the engine is the other way about in the car:
http://imsretrofit.com/ims-retrofit-procedure-overview/ Also note in the video that the second fabricated cam lock will need to be slightly different than the LN unit.
