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Old 01-27-2017, 12:10 PM   #5
NewArt
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Originally Posted by 356Guy View Post
It was a bad idea to put an anti-friction bearing in an IC engine.
I believe that higher engine speeds helped lubricate the bearing better after the seal fails. This is why I think that tip cars had more failures but I'm only going on what the local Indy says on that one.
Odd...I had read the opposite, that tiptronic cars had less failures.
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