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Most install it in the door jamb of the car but the shop I used stuck it in my service book which IMO is a good place for it
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I will check the box for the sticker later when I get home.
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Just got my dual row LN bearing for IMS in the mail. I thought this was an *open* bearing with splash lube, but its sealed on one side?
What's up with that? how can it splash when its sealed at one side?
Thanks
Yeah I realized how much effort dropping the transmission and everything else is for this job so decided it was worth spending an extra $500 to get the LN. If I run it to the warranty, 75k its a good time to do the clutch again.
Plus when I pulled the flywheel and saw I had a dual row IMS (yay) it made sense to replace it with another dual row bearing.
The flange type was dual row so shallow, not the deeper single row flange. I have to lock the cams this weekend before pulling the flange off and extracting the old IMS bearing. I believe most 2000 cars have dual row so its not surprising.
My car production date on the VIN sticker is 6/00 so mid 2000.
Incidentally doesn't the LN bearing come with some kind of sticker to put on the car so show its had the LN bearing installed? I can't remember seeing it in the box but I'll look again when I get home from work.
BTW, I have read their warranty and still don't think I understand it. Lawyers and their damn legal-speak.
Seems the part needs to be installed by a certified shop?
As well as the original bearing sent back to LN with the warranty paperwork.
There should be a sticker with a serial number on it. Most install it in the door jamb of the car but the shop I used stuck it in my service book which IMO is a good place for it
I will check the box for the sticker later when I get home.
I guess LN like to do tear downs of old IMS bearings, knowing year, mileage etc they can build up more of an idea of failure rates and try and work on correlation etc
I would have liked to have stripped the bearing down myself; I was toying with the idea of capturing the oil inside the IMS bearing and sending it out for oil analysis to see how degraded it is. But I think I'll send it back to LN.
I have a feeling part of the story of IMS fails is simply tolerance stackup of the block, IM shaft etc. If there is mis-alignment or run out on those things it will kill a radial bearing pretty quick.
If you install the bearing yourself I can't see LN giving a warranty of any kind if it fails.
Follow the installation procedure properly and you will be fine I think their failure rate is extremely low.
If you find the Full LN Installation Procedure on line it would be helpful to post a link.It is very long.
The one I have is this - 31 pages ! Excellent.
http://theimssolution.com/wp-content...nual-05-16.pdf
Yeah I wrote them and they require the shop name etc for install for the warranty.
With that in mind I guess there is little point in returning my old IMS bearing to them so I might do an analysis myself. I'm a professional design engineer so I have experience examining things like this.
