It's not about trying to scare anyone. I have nothing to gain by scaring anyone. But I do want my customers to get the most possible life out of their gears and it is not much of a hassle to do a proper break in. I have no interest in people having gear failures after I did their gears. Why wouldn't any shop who cares about their customers give them the best advice to make their gears last?
20 minutes is a basic guideline to make it simple for the customer to do a reasonably effective break in. You have to make it simple for most people or they won't do it. I can't believe there is so much resistance to a simple thing like this. It is not much of a hassle to do the procedure and it just might mean the difference between broken ring gear teeth in the middle of the most gnarly trail you have ever done and completing that gnarly trail and having good stories to tell your buddies. You decide.
If my customers were willing to pay for my time to drive their car around for a couple hundred miles I would be happy to do the break in for them. It is not that critical. It is just the best practice to ensure the longevity of the gears.If it is so critical, then why don't you do it for your customers? Do you test drive these Jeeps that you work on?
If you are breaking ring gear teeth, there is more wrong that just an improer break in.
Most manufacturers run their gearsets on a fixture to verify the machining is correct. They do not lap them in.
( Recorder appears under your name), or just a regional chapter? Either way, you don't represent very well with your comments.
Bryan C. your post count is high enough that you don't need to post comments just to boost it. You have ceased providing any meaningful contribution to this post since very early on in this discussion.
On the other hand I do need to boost my post count and I won't deny it. I tend to loiter and listen, you seem to like to harass and argue.
On a semi-related note, are you an officer in the National leadership of
It seems that you don't agree with someone who has a valid reason for recomending a certain procedure. But why are you so offended that you take this much time to argue with him? You had a valid suggestion of your own, & so do other posters. The more you argue like a child, the less intelligent you and your opinion appear(for this post and any others you participate in from this day forward).
Carry on belittling intelligent folks with your drivel. You are acting like a bully, and it is unbecoming of an adult and a leader in an organization.
but I am a member first, and someone with a wealth of real world knowledge. I'm just passing this along to the masses.
Nobody is going to cite me for unloading my pistols before I clean them, and although it may not be completely necessary (really, what are the chances the thing will go off?) I do it anyhow.
I wear my seat belt, not only because it’s the law but because I’d like to live through the very unlikely event of a real bad collision. Since I began driving, it’s safe to say I have driven thousands and thousands of times, and yet still I have had no collision. Should I think it’s all hype then? Nah.
I don’t get wasted and drive a trail, I don’t weld without a hood on, I check how deep the water is before diving in, and I look both ways before crossing the street. As I said before, NO, there is no guarantee that your gear set is going to fail if you just get in and start romping. In fact, chances are it won’t if it’s installed right. IF. I’ll continue to break in my new gear sets the way the manufacturers recommend and if you don’t like doing that, heck, you don’t have to! That is the beauty of it all.
