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Old 04-24-2007, 05:19 AM   #10 (permalink)
Haplo
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Date registered: Oct 2006
Vehicle: 1980 300 TD
Location: Haarlem, The Netherlands
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Originally Posted by GermanStar
I'll say this -- if remachined joints are not heat treated (aka case hardened), the reman process is inadequate and unacceptable.
This is almost unbelieveble! Remachined Joints??? That really is stupidity. I have never heard of this before. I think I would'nt want to be even near a shop which would recomend this! Like said before: The hardning proces (of both parts!), new oversized balls, AND proper PRE-loaded mounting will make this proces almost impossible to do correctly by any shop which is not specialized in stuff like this! (And then I won't even have thought about the theoretical knowledge of the machining tollerances, surface-roughness, and the needed mounting tollerances between the parts) Actualy I think only manufactures of these joints really have the knowledge and machinery to do this...
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