[QUOTE=Steve Tinker;369011]
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Originally Posted by southernstar
Does it really, really matter if the bearings are splash, force or mist lubricated - as southernstar says, many years & many units later they are still out there and working, so somethings right with the design ......
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It matters in the following $350 sense…
The apples to apples trade off in rough price terms is this: the $650 custom manufactured LN Retrofit lubricated by sump oil versus the $1000 combination of an off-the-shelf ceramic bearing (@ $200) lubricated by DOF (@ $800). People struggle because they are trying to figure out what approach provides the greatest IMSB reliability – LN supposedly better bearing or the combined DOF fix’s supposedly better lubrication approach.
If the bearing is the problem, then the LN approach might be best. If lack of lubrication is the problem, then the DOF approach might be best. And if these two points of distinction – bearing quality and lubrication method - don’t matter much in real wprld applications, then the low cost option is the rational economic choice.