Schnell Gelb

Well done Coltti and Europorsche914 -your split bearing find is an excellent way of breaking the Porsche price extortion.
Thank you for sharing.
Wake up ECS Tuning - advertise the part as fitting Porsche gearboxes - if it does ???
https://www.ecstuning.com/b-genuine-...ing/0a3311133/

HTCI

Imo000

Update: My local VW dealer can get this pinion bearing (0A3-311-133) in a week for under $140 CDN. I'm going to order one through them and report back. The parts guy said it was for a 2003-2005 Passat 6-speed



Has anyone managed to verify that this pinion bearing will fit the 996 gearbox?

Porschetech3

If I'm not mistaken, that bearing will fit the upper (input shaft) 73mm, the lower pinion bearing is 93mm. I found a supplier for the OEM *** 93mm bearing and bought a couple extra a few years ago. I can send you the 93mm pinion bearing for $265usd.

Imo000

The VW parts catalog description shows it's a 93mm bearing so it should be the same as the lower/larger pinion bearing. Will find out this week when the bearing arrived. Here is the link to the catalog: https://audi.7zap.com/en/rdw/audi+a6.../3/311-311070/

Schnell Gelb

Excellent detective work guys. Thank you for sharing the details- without which future users would be unable to do this repair .Rennlist at it's best.

Imo000

Picked up the Audi/VW bearing and looks exactly like the larger 996 pinion bearing. Has the same one piece inner race with a split outer race. The outer race has the step on the pinion gear side and the OD and the width are the same. Will check ID when the old bearing comes off but from the VW catalog parts description, it should be the same ID as the 996 bearing. The bearing is made by ***. There are some other numbers that I will make note later. Taxes in it was $137 CDN. at my local VW dealership. Since this bearing was also a pinion bearing on a 6-speed Passat, I'm confident that it is the same bearing as the 996 one from Porsche but at a much lower price. Pelican Parts sells this bearing for $402 USD. I got mine for around $100 USD at the local VW dealer so there was no shipping cost. That's one heck of a price difference since VW makes money on this too. Even at $265, this is 2.5 times more than at the Vee Dub dealer.

Porschetech3

Nice score !! But that means I'll lose on these extra bearings I got..lol There is an Audi/Vw part number for the upper 73mm bearing also for about that price, but I can't find my notes, anyway that means for about $200 usd you can replace both big bearing while your in there.. Good deal.Use to when Porsche was the only source anyone could find it would cost about $900 to buy both bearings.

Imo000

You can try putting them up on eBay and maybe they will sell at $265. I know this sucks as I was ready to PM you to get your bearing until I stumbled onto this from this tread.
What I now need is the large bearing on the main shaft that looks like this one but is smaller is dimension. If I can find that, that would be awesome. Have a feeling that won't happen and I will need to fork out the Porsche tax to buy one. My other plan for that bearing is to make a tool to pull it using the inner race. This way I can re use it.

turbogrill

I am impressed that you manage to pull this off! I removed the front cover and quickly realized it was to much. Sent mine to Gbox and paid $2500...

Porschetech3

They have been up on E-bay or over a year, not many people are DIYing a G96 trans repair.

If you dig in the Audi/Vw trans parts , you will find that 73mm bearing, it in there. I have so many notes from the last two decades on Porsche stuff they are scattered to where I can't find ****...lol. That part number is also in one of these pinion bearing threads.

Imo000

Awesome, I'll keep digging then. Thanks for the heads up. Give it time and the 996 owners will slowly become DIY'ers too. This is how the 928 owners were 20 years ago and then within a few years a bunch of DIY'ers started owning them. Since I bought my non running 996, 7 years ago, I have noticed the change on this forum too.

infrasilver

Great find on the 93mm bearing, I have been following this thread for a while, I don't suppose you guys have come up with the VAG 72mm bearing, I have sent my gearbox to be rebuilt, due to 3rd gear losing teeth and have been told I will need two new bearings, I can only assume they will be two expensive pinion and input bearings, I go up to look at it tomorrow to see which ones they are referring to but I would like to find out the 72mm bearing in advance just in case that is one of them it needs?

I did spend a few hours over the weekend trying to find this elusive bearing on the VAG gearbox parts catalogs so I could post up if I came across it but I can't find anything similar?

Imo000

I haven't found an input bearing either but stopped looking when I figured out how to safely remove the existing one for re use.
Since I'm typing, here is a small update. Had to wait 2 weeks to get a replacement 2nd gear shifter ring detent spring (the 3 small ones holding the detent ***** inside the shifter ring. Broke one of them when trying to re assemble the shifter ring. Part came in yesterday so hopefully I can re start working on this in the next couple days.

infrasilver

OK, I have a contact who says he should be able to get one but I'm not holding my breath. The numbers on my input bearing are
372548 CH84
Made in Brazil by ***
another ID on there is PS 13

I've been up to see my gearbox guy today, he says he can't get the input bearing off without cutting it off as they can't get both shafts in their press, I told him to cut it off which is a pity as it's still in good condition. How did you get yours off as I might be able to stop him from butchering it if there is another way?