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Originally Posted by JFP in PA
Not a matter of being critical, very few engines that have suffered an IMS failure make it with a replacement bearing and not being taken apart and cleaned; the odds against you are very high. You were quite fortunate, literally "one of the few"............
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I'd like to see the numbers on that. I did take mine apart and cleaned it with solvents, not ultrasonic. My sense is the stock oil filter does a better job than it is credited with as has been amply demonstrated when they are cut open. What do the chips take out? Seriously, provided the oil filter does not fail, they go through the oil pump and end up in the filter. If they are too big, the end up in the pan. The death blow isn't the chips, its the damage that created them. Now if an open bearing is chosen as an IMSB replacement using unfiltered oil, the story changes.