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Originally Posted by EssexPorsche
I defey any car manaufacturer to beat the reliabilty of a core engine component with a failure rate of less than 1%. Better still i defey any car manufacturer to maintain that less than 1% failure rate on cars 10yrs+
Plenty of other cars have much higher failure rates of core components within that time scale. It may have been a curious design but to be fair, it wasn't THAT bad after all.
So if i was running dual row, i'd be sleeping easy.
That said, the above relates to dual row bearings, the move to a single row bearing on later cars seems to have been a Friday afternoon decision following a few pints in the local pub which somehow seemed like a good idea at the time.
1% to 10% is a big jump and for me 10% was just that bridge to far.
Each to their own though.
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I'm pretty sure that if any mfg has done it, Lexus did in the 90s and early 2000 model years. The 1UZ-FE V8s are bullit proof well in excess of 250k with nothing more than timing belts, water pumps and spark plugs every 80,000ish miles. 12,000 mile oil intervals are no sweat...