20Oct2011
Boxster Oil Air Separator
Pretty standard repair around these parts. A little white smoke out the exhaust, some odd running issues due to a vacuum leak. Meh, not the end of the world. Side of the engine gives you access to part of the OAS. And the top is the other part. And out of the car……..and because we can, we cut it open to inspect the innards. Which has a nice tear in it. Back together with a new OAS and we should …
27Apr2011
996 Oil Leaks
A buddy of mine brought by his 996 that is having trouble containing it’s oil, lol. Every time he drives the car, he gets out and smells that familiar smell of oil burning off the engine. It was time to get it taken care of. One of the most common sources of oil leaks in the M96 motors are the spark plug tube seals. There is an inner and outer o ring on the tube that will leak over time. …
09Jan2011
986 Boxster Smoking Issue
Helped a freind out with an emergency on Friday afternoon. Turns out his boxster started smoking excessively out the tailpipe. On most cars you would fear the worst that maybe a headgasket was blown, but the M96 engines use an oil air seperator that can go bad and allow oil vapor back into the intake stream, where it is burned off in the cylinders and causes the smoke. Pearing up over the passenger axle, you can see the OAS attached …
18Aug2010
Another Oil Air Seperator
Had a freind bring by his boxster that had started smoking on him excessively out the tailpipe. Worse on startup, but would happen when driving as well. This is pretty typical of a bad oil air seperator. When the car got here, it was idling extremely roughly and had a CEL. This was odd, and you start to think the worst. Read down the CEL and came up with the following laundry list! P1128: O2 sensing adaption (bank 1) P1130: …