I have never actually seen the gears. I am only going on what I have been told and have heard about. If, in fact, the gears ARE metal origionally it only reenforces my opinion that if the angle drive fails it is NOT a fault of the angle drive but a problem somewhere else in the system. Making the angle drive "stronger" is not going to fix the problem (especially of it always HAD metal gears). If you have an angle drive fail then just replacing it just means that the new one will fail too. I guess the story of plastic gears is just like many other "urban legends". David Teitelbaum vin 10757 --- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, <rob@...> wrote: > > Darryl, > > > > I agree with you on the gear material. I have rebuilt several hundred > original angle drives and have never seen plastic gears utilized. Maybe > David T. could share with us any information he has on "plastic gears" and > if he has actually seen a set. > > > > Rob Grady > > > > P.J.Grady Inc. To address comments privately to the moderating team, please address: moderators@xxxxxxxxxxx For more info on the list, tech articles, cars for sale see www.dmcnews.com To search the archives or view files, log in at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dmcnews/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:dmcnews-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:dmcnews-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dmcnews-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/