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Cryo..... Yes or No?
- Thread starter Ted Z
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satan
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Lakewood, CO USA
$100 for an axle set-up is usually a good deal - depends on the quality of the job though -- $100 spent now on a bad set-up can lead to replacing gears and bearings in a few weeks...
Sounds good to me though (if you can assure quailty) -- the brake deal is good as well (used?)
Sounds good to me though (if you can assure quailty) -- the brake deal is good as well (used?)
KY Chris
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Louisville, KY
Cryo? I'm sure that this will be a big debate. That price sounds ridiculous to me. Find someone around you who works in a lab that used liquid nitrogen and have them chuck yer shit is their deward for a few days. I have done it to drill bits before and it doesn't seem to make much of a difference to me. I don't know, though, I'm sure the metal bitches might have a better idea. I'd rather buy a hundred $1 beers than have cryo'ed gears.
.02 from KY
.02 from KY
5-90
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Hammerspace
I've seen the results of cryogenic stress-relief in rifle barrels, and I've been impressed. Anything that will relieve internal stresses in machined cast parts (or machined forged parts) is a good thing to me - especially something subjected to the sort of stresses as R/P or low driveline gears (I've thought of having 1st and 2d done when I rebuild an NV3550 for my 88, and maybe the input set and chain when I rebuild the tcase.)
You are correct that it is a bit involved - you just don't run something to -300*F and back to room temperature with impunity...
5-90
You are correct that it is a bit involved - you just don't run something to -300*F and back to room temperature with impunity...
5-90
4ward
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Dayton, OH
I wouldn't waste my money on it. It's not going to make it stronger, it'll just give a better wear characteristic. The way it has been described to me by several bytches is- Essentially it brings the molecules into a more consistent pattern, heat cycles now affect it less creating a better wear life, but not helpin out in any kind of a strength issue. Take it for what it's worth. I'd put that $100 towards my next wheelin' trip.
Sean
Sean
OK... My guy told me it makes the parts stronger because it removes all internal stress from the metal and more wear resistant
http://coldfire.com/process.htm
http://www.metal-wear.com/cryo_excuses.htm
http://coldfire.com/process.htm
http://www.metal-wear.com/cryo_excuses.htm
- Location
- Indiana-Missouri
imho, cryo-ing gears is like running synthetic in the aw-4.....
its simply unecessary......
a purely psychological mod........
its simply unecessary......
a purely psychological mod........
