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Originally Posted by Trey T
Do you know why they change it to roller bearing? is it because of assembly issue?
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The other side of the IMS shaft has the lapped bearing and the 8mm key that drives the oil pump, so there is plenty of lubrication on that side of the engine. It does cost money to cast into the block the oil passages. Plus it is easy to the drive cage bearing into the block on the flywheel side so you have speed of assembly. The original duel row bearing is only use by Porsche, to save more cost after they thought it was safe to build cars that way, they started to use an over the counter single row bearing that is also used in a GM alternator I believe and that is when things started to go "Tic Tic Boom!!''
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