Black Sea RD

Hi James,

We are very glad to hear about your success in rebuilding your TT!

Nice write up too, thank you for the very kind words about our products and the end results.

Kind regards,

Black Sea RD

Great to see a post from you, hope your TT is doing well!

Well we tried to stop but many customers still wanted this service done. So we designed and made a dismantling tool that makes it almost fun to dismantle the TTs now. So we can still offer this service for those who want it.

Cheers,

User 52121

URG8RB8

Great to hear from you as well! Glad you are offering this great service again! Wish I could give you a better update, but honest to God car is still not done! The longest build known to mankind!

CurtP

Oh, what could the tool possibly be?

Hope all is well Constantine! In case I haven't said it in a while - thank you for making these available for our cars!

minho78

Constantine how much do you charge for a rebuilt Torque tube?

aglaes

His web site says they charge $150 for the re-build, which of course does not include the new bearings or the round trip shipping costs. Probably can get the whole thing done for under $1K. Plus they will refurb the outside of the unit so it will basically look brand new. Sounds like a good deal to me. Think I may opt to do it that way.

User 52121

I would have had Constantine do the rebuild but honestly what I feared were the shipping costs.

IMO $150 to have him do it IS A STEAL. But I have to imagine that shipping a TT from Chicago to Florida would probably be around $100 one way, and that's putting a lot of faith in FedEx or UPS to not totally destroy the thing on the trip. So now you're looking at $350 to have it done... and I started to weigh it against my own time, and knowing there were good DIY instructions out there, I decided to give it a shot.

I think the only reason I'm glad I did it myself in the end was because my trans rebuild worked out to be a few bucks more than I expected and this was an opportunity to save a few $$$ on the overall winter project. Had my trans come in closer to what I was originally expecting, I would have preferred in hindsight to just send the TT down to Constantine.

racerxrick

You can tell I have a bad bearing in mine as it rattles when idling in neutral...when you put the clutch in it goes away (since the tube is disengaged at that time).

Would really like to have this repair done (notice I didn't say "do this repair!).

Good job Jim..

Oddjob

You could also be hearing the trans bearings. When unloaded the trans bearings will rattle like rolling marbles in a can, will be worse when the trans is hot vs cold. Torque tube bearings tend to sound more like bad wheel bearings, grinding.

racerxrick

hmm...could be

mwc951

How would one ship the TT?
Certainly a single pallet wouldn't do it.
Strap it to two pallets?

acorad

I saw Constantine's prefered method somewhere, basically you wrap it in a bunch of styrofoam "noodles" that your kids use in the pool.

Lightningmcnulty

you could pallet it standing up as long as its less than 8 feet long

URG8RB8

It has been a long while, but I used the preferred method and it was quite cheap from OK to FL return, considering the weight. No pallet needed. If I recall about $75 each way. TT is very heavy.