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Originally Posted by jaykay
Chip detectors have been widely used in aerospace applications where advanced warning of an impending failure is a matter of life or death; you can't just pull over.
Since there use was maintained, I would think there has been sufficient lead time to failure experience for the concept....saving man and machine.
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Absolutely agree. If this were a method that somehow just detected impending failure of the IMS alone, I would agree with the above post that just putting in the ceramic/hardened replacement bearing makes more financial sense, and I argued this point before Jake expained the operation of the device.
However, now that we understand that it's a steel debris detection device, which can warn of any number of potential engine health issues, I'm totally on board. In fact, this should be a device on EVERY car. Flat-6 should work on wider marketing, IMO, it could be his retirement ticket.