Steen Jensen

This is very common.

My car developed a miss and upon inspection , 2 of the coil packs were cracked. This was at 40k km.

Do yourself a favour and replace all the coil packs and do the sparkplugs at the same time. If you do it yourself , $300. A bit of a PITA but much cheaper than paying someone else.

_leocanto

_{Congratulations!}

_{I always like to say working on these cars is not rocket science...just nuts and bolts and elbow grease. Always feels good to accomplish the work yourself and gives you a better understanding of the car. I used a few swear words with that **** slave cylinder too.}

Pretty much everything you need to know...http://www.c-speedr.com/howto/996rms/rms1.php

Who knows?

Very cheap clutch...very expensive release brg.

I'd go for it. Ask the clutch seller if he sells the alignment tool and if so ship it also. AT should be about 10 bucks.

I bought it here...http://www.gripforce.com/store/. They had a listing on e-bay.

$489.00 two years ago

I had trouble finding a 997 clutch alignment tool. Caused me all sorts of grief when I used a universal tool. The 996 tool will work...use it.

My clutch was doing the same thing as yours.

I bought a Sach's kit for under 500 bucks and replaced it. No leakage at the IMS or RMS so I left them alone. I just cleaned the flywheel up with emery cloth without removing it.

New clutch works great.

There is a DIY somewhere on the internet on a 996 clutch replacement that I used as reference. Pretty straightforward job , although I struggled with realigning the gearbox for awhile.

so you didn't change the flywheel? still curious about this... i hear of people switching to lwfw, but my mechanic specifically told me never to go away from a dual mass flywheel.

Nope. No flywheel change. The flywheel was lightly scorched due to the slippage but I was able to clean it up with emery cloth. I was warned of all sorts of dire consequences if I did not replace or at least have the flywheel resurfaced. Maybe I just got lucky but I have had no issues and the new clutch works great.

I am planning on changing out my clutch and flywheel in the very near future and was wondering if anyone has any advice/tips for me. Thinking it could be done at home...

2005 Porsche 997 - 28k miles

Curious if you ended up doing the clutch replacement yourself. Would make for a great write up if you have the time.

Finished the job today. New clutch works great. No more slipping.

After calling half a dozen porsche parts places with no luck re:997 clutch alignment tool and trying (begging} to borrow one from the dealer (nice try) the guy at Pelican put me on hold and 5 min later came back and told me the 996 alignment tool would work. It only cost 10 bucks and he was right. Used the tool and the tranny went in with little difficulty. Well....relativley speaking. I put a new slave cylinder on and pressure bled it.

All in all , a pretty straight forward job with the only real problem resulting from trying to line up the clutch disc with a "universal tool". The worst part is having to manhandle 100's of pounds of transmission around while crawling around under the car. I wouldn't reccommend this job without a lift. Hope my experience can save someone the frustration I went through.

The cooling fan relay module was also updated to a different part number if I remember correctly.

Interesting. I recieved a recall notice for my 05 C2 a few weeks ago. They told me they needed the car for 1 1/2 hrs to do some sort of cooling fan modification.