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YOUR RESEARCHAnyone got a IMS stock bolt?
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We save the units that we extract, as well as those that are sent in to complete the warranty process that are installed by others.
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This is the extent I will go to to prove a friend wrong!
I thew my centre bolt away and now bloody need it
Anyone got one lying around? Will ofcourse cover postage via PP
We save the units that we extract, as well as those that are sent in to complete the warranty process that are installed by others. Its all about research.
Yeah, I figure there must be some sort of good research/data that can be gained from having so many of them. Especially if you have them sorted by mileage from the vehicles.
In spite of the numerous theories, as far as I can tell, no one has quite figured out the exact reason for failure. Gotta be a great Ph.D. project for some young engineering student amongst that pile of old IMSB's you have there.
Once annually we cut bearings apart and gather trend data. We keep track of mileage, type of service and even take oil samples from many of the engines.
Just because we haven't shared what we know, doesn't mean that we do not know what leads to these issues. 2013 was the year of the copycat and we are protecting our intellectual property more now than ever before.
It would be interesting to see your data. Amazing that this one little part has caused so much of an issue for so many years. Well, to my benefit, it killed the prices of 996's enough that I could buy one!!
My bearing looked great from the outside, no "wobble" at all (100,000 miles when I changed it out), but I didn't cut it open.
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Don't judge a book by its cover.. Cut that bearing apart and look for spalling and flattened *****.
Wait till the pictures from my book hit… I divulge some info, to include pics of IMSBs from an electron microscope…
Yeah, I sure wish I didn't toss it by accident. I would have liked to cut it open to see what the bearing ***** looked like.
Hmm, electron microscopy, now that could sure reveal some interesting stuff! (See? You could have gotten some engineering pH.D. student to research all this for you for free... that's the way grad school works... you come up with the idea, then get free labor).
When's the book due out? Sign me up for a copy. I'm an avid reader of anything 996/997 related.
