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Originally Posted by tonythetarga
The IMS bearing in the 08 is NOT replaceable unless you dismantle the engine. You can do an oil feed to the stock bearing however.
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This is interesting. I had read a recommendation of pulling the rubber seal out of the 997.1 bearing to allow oil to get to the ball bearings. I did not know there was a mod to do an oil feed, would like to know more about that.
As these cars are now more than a decade old, does the ims bearing failure rate increase with age? (seems probable) even on the later 997.1 larger version? earlier ones seem like they most will likely get replaced or have been replaced. Or of course they have cratered already.
Perhaps another novice question - is there an access point or could you drill a hole through case flange to run a borescope to identify size of ims nut 13 or 22mm? is this worthwhile?
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Last edited by Cook&Dunning; 04-16-2019 at 05:33 AM..
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