I'm done!!!
04-24-2012 | 08:35 AM
#32
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Hey! Been there numerous times to include right now. Lol. Asking myself when is enough enough?!? 
. My just brought home car from the shop and the new starter is shot. It was a no name brand and with the 2.8 need a high tq which I just ordered. But before I realized it was, I am pretty sure, the starter I hear lots of clanking and grinding and wouldn't turn over. So at first I f'n flipped! Then realized it is probably just the starter and not the motor.
And I remember IMA has a 1 year warranty on their parts and labor for street cars.
. My just brought home car from the shop and the new starter is shot. It was a no name brand and with the 2.8 need a high tq which I just ordered. But before I realized it was, I am pretty sure, the starter I hear lots of clanking and grinding and wouldn't turn over. So at first I f'n flipped! Then realized it is probably just the starter and not the motor. And I remember IMA has a 1 year warranty on their parts and labor for street cars.
04-24-2012 | 12:32 PM
#41
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Probably pretty expensive, then.
You can't get the pan off to change out the bearings with the crossmember and crossover there. So at the very least, the crossover pipe has to come out, and either they pull the motor to get the pan off, or (more likely) suspend the motor from the top and drop the lower crossmember. Though if they pull the crossmember you'll need an alignment afterwards.
You can't get the pan off to change out the bearings with the crossmember and crossover there. So at the very least, the crossover pipe has to come out, and either they pull the motor to get the pan off, or (more likely) suspend the motor from the top and drop the lower crossmember. Though if they pull the crossmember you'll need an alignment afterwards.
04-24-2012 | 12:53 PM
#42
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From: Atlanta, GA
P5th, bearings are pretty straightforward to do -- don't worry about it. Do you have the ability to do it yourself? It'll be way cheaper that way.
04-24-2012 | 02:31 PM
#43
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I spun a bearing a while back and it is bascially a bottom end rebuild. So once apart all the new parts and seals etc that go with it.
Big question is how did you spin the bearing? Oil starvation but how? It wasn't on the track so no issue of foaming or pan baffling from hard corner etc.
So IMA did not open the motor at all correct? Just bolt ons right?
Big question is how did you spin the bearing? Oil starvation but how? It wasn't on the track so no issue of foaming or pan baffling from hard corner etc.
So IMA did not open the motor at all correct? Just bolt ons right?
04-24-2012 | 08:22 PM
#45
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From: Edmonton, AB
If you do mods right, put oil in it at regular intervals, and don't try to find out if the car can rev as high as an F1 car, you shouldn't spin a bearing.