LNE products "solution vs time honered IMS bearing retrofit

[JFP in PA]

Originally Posted by Rickvd

I am a two month owner of a low mileage 2004 Boxster S. I am a retired Navy guy and in the navy we did sound cuts on lots of electrical motors and combustion engines to perform predictive analysis. Last thing we wanted was a bearing failure during deployment. I have read quite about about the IMS bearing failure etc. but no where have I read about using sound analysis to anticipate bearing wear/failure. Is this just not done?

It was tried but proved inconclusive.

[mikefocke]

Back in 2012 a guy with a background in vibration analysis (Mark Jennings) was trying to apply the same technique to the M96. He wrote up something for the local PCA mag (Uber Alles) but then the effort dropped out of sight after about 3 months. I have a copy of the article.

[Rickvd]

Thanks for the Intel i would have thought it would have been as predictive as in the navy.