nice.

 

You must mean my IMS Shaft yeah baby yeah, do I make you randy, well do I baby?

 

The comedy relief is fun but in all seriousness, the answer to your question is that statistics compiled by JR and others show the failure rates to be:

DR IMSB @ 3%

SR IMSB @ 8 to 10%

The forum poll stays between 9 to 10% failure.

Hope this helps.

 

Facinating.

Clint, amigo, you gotta spell-check your memes.

 

Anyone claiming that there is a known figure for this is wrongity wrong wrong. People continue to drive their 996's, and thus more wear items are going to wear out - including the bearing.

If you have a dual-row bearing, it will last longer than a single-row bearing. This is the only "fact" I am aware of that is even remotely verifiable.

Krazy, you worked two new acronyms AND a reference to Jake into a single post - bravo. *slow clap*

 

Sorry but wrong again bro! Check JR's compiled stats on IMSB failure.

 

Our IMS tech article here has a lot of good information. Scroll down to "Which Bearing is Inside Your Engine?" It should help with your question a bit.

 

I understand that if your St. Jake wrote it, you're going to parrot it back. But, "bro," attempting to hang a fixed percentage of failure on something that will be forever changing is a fool's errand.

I would expect you of all people, since you're the Paul Revere of IMSB failure, to understand that the bearing will eventually reach the end of its service life in EVERY M96 unless it is replaced or eliminated.

The number will of course never reach 100%, since 996's die of many things like drowning, fire, etc. - but as time wears on, the 3%/10% number will continue to be less and less reflective of reality. If the situation is really as dire as you like to make it out to be, the number will be FAR greater than what you suggest. We won't know what the actual number is until EVERY 996 is dead and accounted for - which, of course, will never happen.

If you truly believe the 3%/10% numbers, you must also accept that there will be no further IMSB failures. I have a hard time believing that you'll go along with this line of reasoning...

 

So mine is fine. Awesome.

 

Schnelly, I gotta disagree wit you and stick up for my bruh KK. Those are not made up acronyms - "DR IMSB" is for Doctor driven cars and "SR IMSB" is for Senior or older driver owned cars (think Hurdi and JohnnyIrish). It is well known that the cars that are driven sedately have a higher incidence of failure, hence Jake's tracking of these categories. However, some doctors actually are able to exercise their cars to some degree (when compared to older drivers). Once a doctor gets to the age where he requires a prescription for the little blue pill, he is switched to the SR IMSB category for tracking purposes. Also contributing to the higher SR IMSB failure rate is the apparent accelerated degradation of the bearing caused by consistent driving with the left turn signal stuck in the "on" position. I know this to be fact. Jake told me so personally. He just didn't want to share this proprietary info with you parrots.

 

This is some facinating **** here!

 

FIFY

 

I learn something new everyday...

 

Gents, I hate to say this but I think we just got TROLL-ed. Have not heard back from the OP.....who is probably snickering in the sidelines watching us bite.

 

FIFY