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Originally Posted by feelyx
randy, Anything is possible, and chain pull could cause enough deflection to tear the bearings apart.
Here is my theory on what happened, Porsche placed an order for custom bearings from NSK. NSK then built said bearings, and inadvertantly put the 1 seal on the wrong side and shipped the bearings. Porsche received the bearings and sent them to assembly where the shafts were filled with oil, and the bearings were installed correctly, but with the seal incorrect.(seal on the inside of the shaft) The shaft is then sent to production. Production catches an error as a missing seal, sends it back to assembly. Assembly orders seals from NSK (and here it could go 2 ways, as NSK could of said, or Assembly could of said, "fill bearing with oil and add seal on the outside." So the seal was put on some correct some not so correct and into production it went. The rest is history.
This doesn't explain why the single row, and the 6305 bearing. I have a whole 'nother ufo sighting for that.
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Feelyx:
so your theory is that the bearing should have had a shield on the outside o fthe assembly ( the side toward the case wall) and no shield on the inside toward the IMS, where the shaft's oil supply would have continually lubed the bearing--right?
The first question that comes to mind is whether or not the outside seal would have held oil in this loop so it all didn't just run out into the engine? It doesn't look like a setup that would keep all the oil within this assembly forever.