pszikla

How much longer would I have had an intact engine?
5 minutes, 1 week, your guess is as good as mine!!

Chris(MA)

Go buy a lotto ticket now and split your winnings with me

pszikla

Ha!
That's exactly what they said to me, and if fact I did buy one for this weekend's draw!
Let's see if the Loto gets to pay for my rebuild!!

Nein_11

Wow, im doing my first IMS on my 99 next week... Hope mine isn't this far gone. Good catch!

wildbilly32

Was that out of your 99? How many miles? I thought those weren't supposed to fail? Any junk thrown into engine?

billh1963

4Driver4

Thrust bearing has been better days too. ;-)

Flat6 Innovations

Our Certified Installer shared that one with us earlier today.. Good choice having him do the work!

See, dual row bearings do fail.. Now, the issue is how long it took for this bearing to progress through Stage 3 failure.. All that time it was shedding material all throughout the engine.

Dr_Strangelove

Sometimes I come to Rennlist to calm myself.

Atrox

wildbilly32

RIGHT! Sure you do.

dporto

Wow! Why did you decide to do a rebuild? Was it making crazy noise? Did you just bring it into the shop for regular service/oil change, and they gave you the "dude you better sit down for this" speech? C'mon, some background would be helpful here...

Device2

Nice catch, I also had the same play from my dual row OG (original NSK 62O4DUA17) IMSB at 95K miles of smiles, when I pulled it and decided to replace it.

dkraige

2nd, would love to hear an answer to this question!

dporto

It looks like the shop/installer is a LN/FSI "certified" installer. According to their protocol they'd have to do a complete tear-down and ultrasonic clean-out before doing any type of retrofit. It will be interesting to see if they find any debris (and how much), and/or collateral damage.