[Healeys] Splined Hubs

[warthodson at aol.com]

I had an experience with varying quality from one supplier very similar to
Steve's. The quality seems to be very inconsistent. Make sure you can return
the hubs for refund. I could not find any relationship between quality &
price.
Gary






-----Original Message-----
From: BJ8 Healeys <sbyers at ec.rr.com>
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Cc: bighealey at msn.com
Sent: Sun, Mar 21, 2010 8:39 pm
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Splined Hubs


Quality matters, at any price.  I paid a well-known supplier near Baltimore
175 each for two new front splined hubs.  One of them was apparently
achined incorrectly in the bearing races and caused a rotor wobble and
rake chirp that was only cured when I reinstalled my original splined hub
ith all the same parts otherwise.  The supplier refused to acknowledge any
esponsibility for making it right, declined my repeated offers to send back
he bad hub for inspection, inadvertently admitted to me in a cc e-mail to
is supplier in the UK that there was at least one other like that sitting
n his desk, and I ended up eating the cost after six months of fruitlessly
rying to get him to do more than "try to get me a replacement from his
upplier".  I later cut the thing in half to use for a structural model.
Cheap is not cheap if the quality is bad.  But expensive does not
ecessarily guarantee quality, either.  I would recommend you buy from
omeone who will stand behind their product if there is a problem with it.
Steve Byers
BJ8L/36666
J8 Registry
avelock, NC  USA

----Original Message-----
rom: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
n Behalf Of David Masucci
ent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 8:21 PM
o: healeys at autox.team.net
ubject: [Healeys] Splined Hubs
Hi All,
Does anyone have any comment on the quality of new splined hubs? Based on
he price differences that I see, I'm wondering if anyone has seen
ignificant differences in the quality of the product? For instance I have
ound prices for rear hubs ranging from a low of $79.95 each to a high of
149.95 each. The range for fronts is a low of $139.95 each to a high of
189.00 each.
For a set of 4 that's a range of $439.80 to $677.90. Quite a difference.
oes the quality vary significantly?
Thanks,
ave
BJ8
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