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Old 01-04-2013, 12:01 PM   #13
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Posting your R&D online is certainly one way to establish a record.
More likely, the courts would see it as sharing it with the world rather than attempting to prevent replication

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The entire concept is fascinating. Am I to understand that this solution, if oil starvation is a/the prime failed IMS culprit, basically works/addresses any m96 bearing? If that is indeed the case it really makes you wonder why the guys in Germany didn't do this from the start or at least afterwards when they were debating moving from single row vs. dual.
They did, but just in the $50K+ engines, not the $20K ones..........
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