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Anyone running the eternal fix roller bearing ims solution , not trying to start another major debate just how long since you had it done, miles on car since etc
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Hi all!!
Anyone running the eternal fix roller bearing ims solution , not trying to start another major debate just how long since you had it done, miles on car since etc
Cheers!
I have one in the process of being installed, with new cylinder walls & pistons. Couldn't rationalize the bearing upgrades, given my situation (IMS bearing failure). It just seems intuitively the way to go.
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I'm pretty sure you will have the ln ceramic solution, it's the roller bearing solution by eps I'm looking for feedback on but thanks for your interest!
This is a funny thread like most of them, considering there are thousands and thousands of factory Porsche IXX floating around with way more than 50k doing just fine. I love the irony in this.
Just to clarify:
I am the Inventor and developer of the IMS Solution & Single Row Pro IMS Retrofit. I also developed the IMS Retrofit procedure that has been adopted by the entire industry since 2007, most recently Inventing and developing the Faultless IMSR Tool that facilitates the installation of a dual row bearing into a single row shaft.
This IMS Solution is a plain journal bearing that operates with pressure fed oil delivery. This is not to be confused with other technologies that may use a cylindrical or ball bearing as the designs share nothing in common. The same goes for kits that spray uncontrolled volumes of oil onto the dynamic components of an OEM IMS Bearing.
If its a genuine LN Engineering product, I developed it... If not, its just another knock- off.
They have a 70,000 mile one now? These things seem to improve every year. It really is becoming the most overrated issue in the history of automotive design.
So the off the shelf hybrid bearing that I put into my engine is a knock off of the LN retrofit bearing? But what if this bearing was available before LN bearing?
Oh, you mean a GM Alternator bearing?
The bearing is just one part of the bearing kit. The billet steel flange, center stud (thats a ground surface and moves the O ring to the flange rather than the stud for strength) and all the other pieces, to include the procedure is what defines the LN Retrofit Bearing kit.
There's a lot more to the bearing, than just the bearing. People are finding that out one by one as they buy bearings off eBay and fit them to OE flanges and center studs.
The LN bearing is better suited to outer race rotation rather than inner race rotation, like that GM Alternator bearing you are speaking of. The list goes on and on.
So the LN kit then has a GM alternator bearing with a metal cage then? You do have a clever way of putting down the competition or anything that didn't come out of your shop.
I was looking for info from people who have fitted the EPS Eternal fix roller bearing Ims solution, why has this thread turned into a ceramic retrofit discussion??
Yes, replaced at 29,800 miles and have about 8k miles on the EPS. It's been about 1.5 years since replacement. No problems. Original IMS was perfect on 2005 997S
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