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Originally Posted by Bobiam
A ball bearing is made up of an inner and outer race, balls, a retainer that keeps the balls in the correct distribution spacing, and 2 seals. Early on, metal will start to flake away from all metal components, but it's hard to imagine those tiny chips and flakes, and perhaps a chunk of flat rubbery seal clogging a filter the size of a Porsche filter cartridge.
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And that is a $15k+ bet that you would loose; even running engines have shown up with a ton of metal in both the oil filter and the sump from a failing IMS and the collateral damage the circulating debris had already done:
The OEM by-pass valve on the factory filter housing has a bad tendency to stick open even with the oil is clean, much less full of shavings.
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