[Re: Vibration = tranny?]

[green536 at hotmail.com (Chris DeLong)]

Ok well just to clarify a little here. Just because your remans arent making 
noise yet doesnt mean there isnt any pitting. I have done few axles services 
(take axle, out strip off joints, and inspect/replace as necessary) and have 
come to the conclusion that if a reman axle isnt noisy but the boot tears 
and you take it out to service it you will find 9 times out of 10 that one 
if not both joints on that axle are bad. Not to mention the fact that some 
reman *read sweat shops* use external clips to retain the joints on the 
axle. So if you DO have a bad joint then you have to buy the wrong joint to 
fit on the axle or in some cases you have to get a whole new axle just to be 
able to install the joints that belong on the car.



Chris DeLong
Fine Tuning
206.367.5503
www.finetuningperformance.com
Seattle, WA USA





>From: Cathy Boyko <losinit@usa.net>
>To: "T. Reed" <treed2@u.washington.edu>, Chris DeLong 
><green536@hotmail.com>
>CC: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: Re: [Re: Vibration = tranny?]
>Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 06:30:47 -0400
>
>And FWIW, we've been running a reman for two seasons, and no problems. The
>Hondas go through them at the track like so many chopsticks, and so does my
>kid on the Jetta. He has one of those punch cards like you use at the 
>coffee
>shop, he is up to about 4 on the warrantee. But seriously, not all remans 
>are
>bad. Maybe we got the only good one. Cathy
>
>"T. Reed" <treed2@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> > > And Toby, that is pretty cool that you noticed that they were put
>together
> > > wrong; however, I bet you 25$ USD that if you were to take that axle 
>out
>now
> > > and inspect it you would find at LEAST one bad joint.
> >
> > I have the tranny and axles out right now and they feel fine. No
> > rotational slop or crap-filled grease.
> >
> > I'm not saying they'll last forever, but the cost of the reman axle was
> > 1/4 the price of replacing the two joints individually. At the time, 
>that
> > was a good deal for me. I don't think I would do it again, though.
> >
> > > You see kids, reman axles are assembled by 6 yo kids in china. 
>Therefore
>in
> > > china they dont see the need to case harden the races. This leads to
> > > extremely premature joint failure. Jsut ask anyone who has ever 
>serviced
>a
> > > reman axle for a German car.
> >
> > I'm sure you're right, but I think some are probably better (and worse)
> > than others.
> >
> > -Toby
> >
> >
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