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Originally Posted by Smallblock454
Hello Gelbster,
the tools and technology shown in this document are old school. Think the brochure itself is from the 70/80ties. Today you use digital measurement tools. Shurely the bearings description is updated in 2013.
For example for a pro extractor:
In todays world you would use induction to heat the IMS tube with induction within milliseconds to a temperature where you don't harm the integritiy of the metal and than pull the bearing by a clamp mechanism on the outer race so you don't run into problems to jam up the bearing in the tube. The process itself cculd be completely automated by a micro controller. Also you could make shure that the tool works extreme precisely concerning geometrical precision.
Regards, Markus
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Markus, while dreaming about a nuclear powered, laser guided, and computer controlled IMS bearing extractor, you forgot to take into account the practical reality of street level economics: When something becomes overly complicated or expensive, there will be fewer of them in use, and the price for the service will escalate accordingly.
Shops that do IMS retrofits have to watch their bottom line every moment. When the Faultless Tool became available, a lot of shops took a "wait and see" attitude towards spending even more for tooling to do a job that is actually decreasing in volume (no more vehicles are being built with the IMS shaft, many [25K+] have already been retrofitted, many of the total number are no longer on the road; and of the remaining population, many will never be retrofitted.). So if spending another $1K for better tooling is already under review, you can assume anything costing more than that would simply be a solution without raison d'etre.
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