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Well in my little experience with tapered bearing 'stuff', i know they will wear, but you will have tightening opportunities before they die - mine might not have too much time left, but i'll ask him again when i'm getting the glass pack fitted next week.
Seriously,from my experiences I have never seen one wear. By the time they move it is too late and the damage will quickly escalate.
Then again I am real bearing particular, I design ball bearing components for turbochargers that turn in the 90,000 RPM range and also have set up a couple angular contact high speed lathe spindles. I have seen 180,000 mile front bearings that looked rather new when un capped, and have seen 70,000 mile wheel bearings completely wasted.
Just worried, I'm surprised nobody else has chimed in with bearing experiences.
I'm not going to say how but I know how a 3.0 V6 runs with the cats cleared and it is night and day. Like they are saying "I CANNNN BREATHEEEEE!!!" it is an incredible change.
Who came up with 5 cats anyway? Was it really necessary? Who can really afford to change the entire exhaust system have you priced it?
AND a 3.0 runs rather clean any way, the other cat delete project I'm familiar with didn't put out enough bad exhaust to trip the downstream O sensors, CEL is still off.
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