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					Originally Posted by Ninety9 986  I'm a new owner of a 99 base 986, 39k miles with tiptronic.  It was a garage queen that wasn't very well maintained (or driven enough).  She developed a RMS leak after my first track day, so I decided to bite the bullet and do the LN IMS upgrade. After removing the seal from the old bearing and draining out the oil, it looks like I dodged a bullet. |  
Yep, stage 3 failure right there, folks! Had you not ripped the seal off and washed the debris and oil out that bearing would have "felt" fine.
 
You dodged a bullet for sure.. The only reason that the bearing is still together is because its a dual row... A single would have already completed stage 4 failure and you'd be done..
		 
				__________________Jake Raby/www.flat6innovations.com
 IMS Solution/ Faultless Tool Inventor
 US Patent 8,992,089 &
 US Patent 9,416,697
 Developer of The IMS Retrofit Procedure- M96/ M97 Specialist
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