Hello to everyone,

I'm writing from southern Italy and I regular follow this interesting forum.
Congratulations.


Yesterday inspecting the underbody of my 997 3.6 2005, I noticed an oil leak from the RMS.
You know very weel that is a classic problem on the M96 engine series.
I'm not worried because many water cooled owners even after replacing the RMS, have failed to eliminate the leakage.
Moreover in Southern Italy the official Porsche service is still in the Middle Ages, so I decided to keep the car with the drain (if not worse).

But the reason of this message is another.

While inspected the engine I was particularly impressed by some small bluish spots present near the right bank attack of the exhaust manifold.

Please see the enclosed photo.


I presume it might be residual of anti-seize compounds used in the assembling.

What do you think about it?


Thanks in advance for your help.
Peppe

 

...blue spots do not look like an issue. Look like remnants of blue adhesive.

Personally, would be much more concerned about the RMS.

If you are not going to do the RMS now, do it at clutch replacement time.

 

If the dealer never titled it with the state and they still have the original invoice/MCO from Porsche then by law it is still a new car. Yes, it's very old stock but still considered new.

Warranty doesn't start until the day of delivery to the customer, so you will have the full warranty term.

 

Looks to me like you may have a leak at that header. Can you tell if it was installed with a proper gasket or if someone may have used a gasket maker product when putting it back together. Looks like they may have used a blue gasket maker product and that the car was then started before it was fully cured and the exhaust pressure blew it out of that area. I say this because further down there is evidence of evaporated water that dropped of that black pipe and even further down a spatter pattern on the larger hose. When you start a car as it warm up it produces condensation. Usually this makes its way out the tailpipe if the exhaust system is fully sealed properly until things get hot enough to evaporate it, but it looks to me like your condensation is escaping out that edge of the header where the blue is and then spray g and dropping down.

Put the car on a lift and start it cold - see if any water comes out from there or any exhaust pressure.

 

looks to me to be that blue stuff that they use to hunt for leaks. They had used that stuff that I am talking about on my Land Rover. With a black light, it turned very luminous.

As for the RMS leak, on a 2005 I'd rush to the garage and get it and the IMS bearings changed asap.

 

Blast from the past?