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Originally Posted by Townhome
Well after pulling the pan I found a consderable amount of metal chips. Nothing big but too big to try to attempt to replace the IMS bearing and flush.
I have an offer on a 2005 3.2 replacement engine with 45,000 miles.
Thanks for all your wise advice guys.
Hugely appreciated.
Update: I won't be buying the used engine as its just too much$$$
Still looking for a replacement as splitting the cases to clean scares me. Too bad as this engine and car has been well cared for.
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You are likely looking at a new engine. The only slim possibility would be if the car came with the old style bearing which is removable without splitting the case and if the IMS shaft was not damaged. Chances of that are slim, and even then you've seen the dire predictions if you just replace the bearing and clean it up. Me, I'd roll the dice and at least look at the IMSB to decide how I wanted to go forward. There were folks who made comments when I was rebuilding my engine after an IMSB failure that it would not work (including the cleaning). That was 7000 miles ago. So much for the critics.