What is the name/manufacture of the sin bearing?

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Originally Posted by Bigsmoothlee

Sorry, there is no way to send a text message to the bearing to ask if its doing well or not.

You can monitor camshaft deviation at intervals like 5000 miles
You can take your oil filter apart and check for metal particles
You can take your oil pan off at oil changes as well.

Broke and lazy dont work together. I remember not being able to afford many repairs or modifications in college, and being able to still get the result I wanted by rolling my sleeves up and getting the job done myself.

Cheap? Porsche sells an original IMS bearing for about $120, although I wouldnt recommend it.

Being too lazy to pull the transmission down? Tough s**t! If you dont want to pay someone $500 to paint your hallway, go to home depot, buy the paint, and do it yourself. No sympathy here.

Its not that bad to pull the transmission down anyway

Of course I do all my own work, short of mounting the tires to the rims. Although my friend claims he mounts tires with a sledge hammer and lots of pushing. Somehow it doesn't sound like thats the right thing to do with Porsche rims.

I'm not broke (but I would always do my own work before paying someone else to do it), and I have no reason to pull the transmission until next summer to put in my new clutch. If I needed to (or had signs of RMS/IMS failure) I would pull it in a heartbeat.

That being said, wouldn't an IMS bearing health solution be easy and nice if you didn't need to remove anything for it to work??