IMS Tool Problem

[cnavarro]

Early driver tools allowed for the bearing to be secured to the driver.

We had a shop have 6 ims retrofits fail. Turns out the same tech did each one and was using an air tool to drive the nut down on the install tool, which damaged the bearing even prior to installation, pre-disposing it to an early failure.

I figured that if one person was stupid enough to do this, there have to be others and promptly redesigned the driver tool to prevent the user from securing the bearing with a nut. Problem solved :-)

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