[Jake Raby]

In this series of pics the bearing is extracted, tube cleaned and prepped for the new bearing to be fitted.

Note the blue colored oil pouring from the IMS tube after the bearing extraced.. This dye was introduced ino the oil prior to my test drive after the AOS was replaced.. We used this to prove that the IMS bearing seal was compromised and was allowing oil past it.. The engine oil only had the dye introuced 83 miles before the IMS bearing was extracted.
The seal on this bearing was so bad that the IMS tube became completely filled with blue dyed oil!! This oil released when the IMS bearing was extracted. The oil got past the IMS bearing because the seal was compromised, just as I suspected after I saw the debris in the sump.

This bearing was well on the way to failure, its seal was compoletely compromised and the bearing had gotten stiff.

This is how far we giot yesterday.. Today we finished the insertion and got it all back together and ready for the dyno. We'll dyno it tomorrow and begin the final stages.