Went to Advance Auto last night to pick up a reman'd right axle. They had one left, in a Fenco box, but I took it out of the box at the counter and one of the tie wraps had come off of the inner joint and the balls were rolling around in the box. They ordered another one and I picked it up the today. This one wasn't in a Fenco box:
...but it had a Fenco sticker:
I've heard good things about Fenco remans but nothing about Powerline. Oh well. I got it home and noticed that it didn't have tie wraps holding the inner joint together. In fact, the joints were tight, like a new axle. Took it out of the plastic wrapper and found this sticker:
No country of origin anywhere on the axle or packaging. Hard to say if it's any good but I didn't have much choice but to use it.
Although the car's got only 85K on it, the axle was replaced 57K by a rip-off auto shop when the previous owner took it in for an oil leak. The rear valve cover was leaking but of course they didn't fix that and instead replaced the right axle shaft and power steering pump (they got oil on them...they must be bad!) So, less than 30K later the outer boot is split in half and the motor mounts are fine. The rip-off shop must have put a crappy reman axle on it? This is the label on the replaced axle:
I googled the part number and found it only at:
www.
toyotapartsandservice.com/pub/pdg/ProductCategories/REMAN_CV_Axles.pdf
So, a Toyota reman axle lasted less than 30K. Not good. And who knows how long the brand new, aftermarket axle will last? I'll probably get real good at swapping out axles.
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