LN bearing failure

[KRAM36]

Originally Posted by Timco

Are you using that logo to give the appearance of being Porsche Affiliated? Like you work for them? So their name draws calls for you?

Because I sell Weil-McLain boilers, should I call myself "Weil-McLain Land" even if they sent me a cease & desist order to stop illegally using their name? How about "Triangle-Tube Land" or "Peerless Land"..... Maybe "Home-Depot Land" since I use their products.

Please don't tell me you guys can't see the difference between personal & (somewhat) professional use?? A hack is a hack, down to the last bolt, bearing, and typically their name, as in this case.

That would be a no in my case. I used it because it's cool looking and I made it myself.

How do you know that porsche land is a hack?

[Giller]

Originally Posted by KRAM36

That would be a no in my case. I used it because it's cool looking and I made it myself.

How do you know that porsche land is a hack?

Not sure hack is the right word.....but unprofessional does come to mind. He comes on here only to advertise and take shots at Jake.
He does not contribute anything productive to the forums or offer anyone any help or advice.
The whole point of this forum, or so I thought, was to share ideas and thoughts and engage in some fun banter, as well as help each other out with technical help.
Oh, and make fun of each other from time to time.
And no cats!

[KRAM36]

Originally Posted by Giller

Not sure hack is the right word.....but unprofessional does come to mind. He comes on here only to advertise and take shots at Jake.
He does not contribute anything productive to the forums or offer anyone any help or advice.
The whole point of this forum, or so I thought, was to share ideas and thoughts and engage in some fun banter, as well as help each other out with technical help.
Oh, and make fun of each other from time to time.
And no cats!

I do agree with you on that. Did Hell freeze over?

[Giller]

Originally Posted by KRAM36

I do agree with you on that. Did Hell freeze over?

It better not have....else I'll never get my car out of the shed! Need this darn snow to melt, not freeze even more!

[jdraupp]

Hack might be a bit outreachy without personal experience, but as someone who has looked into who the guys are that you take your Porsche to around the Chicago area, I'll tell you that these guys don't even get a mention. Just my two cents. That and the way they act is information that tends to corroborate the hack title. Like I said, never getting my business.

[Timco]

Originally Posted by Giller

Not sure hack is the right word.....but unprofessional does come to mind. He comes on here only to advertise and take shots at Jake.
He does not contribute anything productive to the forums or offer anyone any help or advice.
The whole point of this forum, or so I thought, was to share ideas and thoughts and engage in some fun banter, as well as help each other out with technical help.
Oh, and make fun of each other from time to time.
And no cats!

I say hack from a business owner's perspective. Uses another major company's name for free exposure (against their wishes), posts solely to promote his business and bash Jake, has an obvious troll buddy, offers no help as Jake does, and did the OP really move you to consider this guy as an indy option? What engine or customer or job is he talking to or about??

He is the type that nails signs to light poles. Free advertising. Rennlist didn't allow it, neither should Mark.

I have no *official* opinion on the statement regarding that small animal who's name shall not be mentioned as per my sealed, out of court settlement with Mark & Pelican....

[KRAM36]

Originally Posted by Timco

I say hack from a business owner's perspective. Uses another major company's name for free exposure (against their wishes), posts solely to promote his business and bash Jake, has an obvious troll buddy, offers no help as Jake does, and did the OP really move you to consider this guy as an indy option? What engine or customer or job is he talking to or about??

He is the type that nails signs to light poles. Free advertising. Rennlist didn't allow it, neither should Mark.

I have no *official* opinion on the statement regarding that small animal who's name shall not be mentioned as per my sealed, out of court settlement with Mark & Pelican....

Oh, sorry I misunderstood your post.

Yes he is going about it in the wrong way to gain customers from this forum.

[papasmurf]

that the guy may be going about this the wrong way to some extent but I think your quote of

Originally Posted by Timco

offers no help as Jake does

is only half true as Jake keeps so much of this stuff going himself and to some extents attacks or denigrates anyone whose products he deems inferior to his own...Listening to him, you would think that his company is the only company on the face of the earth, capable of rebuilding an M96. I was very interested in his products when they first came to market years ago, but after watching these kind of interactions on this and other forums for years between him and anyone that does not drink the kool-aid I have learned there are other options.

[Redboxs]

Originally Posted by papasmurf

that the guy may be going about this the wrong way to some extent but I think your quote of is only half true as Jake keeps so much of this stuff going himself and to some extents attacks or denigrates anyone whose products he deems inferior to his own...Listening to him, you would think that his company is the only company on the face of the earth, capable of rebuilding an M96. I was very interested in his products when they first came to market years ago, but after watching these kind of interactions on this and other forums for years between him and anyone that does not drink the kool-aid I have learned there are other options.

This X1000

[Mark at Pelican Parts]

This thread has run its course.

Mark at Pelican Parts

[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by Giller

Not sure hack is the right word.....but unprofessional does come to mind. He comes on here only to advertise and take shots at Jake.
He does not contribute anything productive to the forums or offer anyone any help or advice.
The whole point of this forum, or so I thought, was to share ideas and thoughts and engage in some fun banter, as well as help each other out with technical help.
Oh, and make fun of each other from time to time.
And no cats!

I'm not so sure that telling us of an LN bearing failure (or early stages) is having the intended effect. From where I stand it seems to underline the fact that we so rarely have forum members report an issue, even despite the fact that third parties of varying degrees of competence are doing nearly all of the installations. Think of all the ways that someone can screw that up... yet I don't think I could count on the fingers of one hand all of the people who have come on to this and other Porsche forums railing about a LN failure.
Granted, the forum represent only a sliver of sliver of total 986/996 drivers but I mean I can't think of a single person who has come on here to say the LN bearing was installed and the engine still grenades. Now compare that to the number of factory bearings that went kaput and the owners came on to ask what to do with their roller.
The fact that people with single row bearings even postpone the swap in the face of such an absence of complaints post-swap really baffles me.