[Healeys] Splined Hubs

[David Masucci]

My reasons for questioning the quality of the hubs relates more to the wear 
characteristics of the splines. If the metal is not of proper hardness, the 
splines could wear prematurely.
The problem with this is by the time you knew the hubs where not right, the 
hub and the wheel would be junk.

Dave

BJ8


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From: <warthodson at aol.com>
To: <sbyers at ec.rr.com>; <healeys at autox.team.net>
Cc: <bighealey at msn.com>
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 10:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Splined Hubs


>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
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> -----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
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> 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
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> 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