1969 911T Intermediate Shaft Bearing

[kav]

I'm installing the intermediate shaft bearings and I read in Waynes book that if you have a stock case 1965 - 1969 then the intermediate shaft rides directly on the surface on the case.

When I reference pictures from my teardown I see there is no intermediate shaft bearing visible as described in the book. If I look at the case halves now after the machine work by Ollies I see there is a notch in the case to receive a bearing, did the machine shop bore the journal out and machine the notch to accept a bearing?? (996-101-435-70). They never mentioned this when I received the case back?

Cheers.

-Kav.

Before the machine work. No Bearing, No Notch.





After Machine work, Notch. Intermediate bearing that does fit.

[Frank Beck]

Are you sure it's not a late '68 case? Some cases during this "transition" year only used the thrust bearing. Second bearing was added later. Sand cast alu cases used no bearings.

Ollies definitely did you a favor. Did you have them also do the oil bypass mod?

[kav]

Thanks Frank, there was definitely no thrust bearing or notch in there when I took it apart as you can see from the photos. Looks like they did some machining to accept a thrust bearing. I will call them tomorrow and get the answer. Yes I had the oil bypass mod done also.

Cheers

-Kav

[Frank Beck]

The thrust bearing is the one on the end.

[kav]

The thrust bearing is the one on the end.

Thanks Frank.

[kav]

So I called Ollie's this morning and they confirmed that when they bore an early case back to standard they bore and add the tang to use a standard set of intermediate shaft bearings.

Cheers.

-Kav.