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After watching Pedro's video....
Why would a vertical mount display of the bearing throwing oil be relevant to a horizontally mounted one? What testing was done to validate this relationship? Isn't the load at startup (when it is immersed in oil if the seal is removed) that is greatest?
Why wouldn't there be a discussion/description in the September 4th video on removing the outer seal so the oil can more easily enter the bearing? And why not just replace the bearing then?
There seems to be an acceptance at the point the video was made at continuing to use the OEM bearing yet in more recent postings that seemed to have changed.
With the DOF, where does the oil go once it gets past the intermediate bearing ball/race and hits the inner seal? Into the tube like it is said it does now? If a different route, what causes the difference? I see a port in but no port/path out is described.
How would one know on pulling the transmission that they should remove the outer seal? Or is this is even part of the DOF kit install procedure? How would they know to replace the bearing? With what bearing and why isn't that an optional part of the DOF kit?
There is the statement that "people" started reporting failures with the LN kit. Curious where the reports came from as the failure rate from any cause has been said to be less than 1/10 of 1% by LN. I've seen only one forum-posted claim and tracing it back the install was a first time install and very questionable.
The statement was made that there were hundreds of the DOF kits installed as of the posting on 9/4. Can't see why anyone would shy away from saying that when asked here. It is a far cry from a few done recently that might have been assumed.
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