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Originally Posted by piper6909
Yes, and that makes it different than what was in the car originally. It's important that people know that instead of telling them they have the same thing. I spent a lot of time and money thinking I had a 2002 engine with a 2002 IMS bearing. I don't want others to go through what happened to me.
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Not to be pedantic, if the serial number for your AT engine showed assembly before 2004, it would have had a single row, serviceable IMS bearing; if the date were 2004 or later, it would be carrying the oversized bearing. If the date of assembly came back as late 2003, standard retrofit practice would be to look and see which bearing is in the shaft before ordering parts, just to be safe and not waste time and money as there was definitely some overlap during the changeover.
We do this for a living, so we have seen most, if not all, ways one of these retrofits can go sideways and try to avoid those pitfalls.
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