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Originally Posted by crystalworks
Good to know it's so cheap Crowz. Thanks for posting.
I'm running a replaced actuator gear on mine. Is there a downside to doing the gear only? Mine has been fine for 3 years now and was unaware there were other failure points to the motor. It give me a warm and fuzzy thinking that what's in there is OE vs an aftermarket as well. Please keep this updated from time to time. If the aftermarket part is reliable I may just order one to have on hand for the next time.
I don't think I could ever just flip my gear unless in an emergency situ out of town or something.
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From my understanding the car reverts to 2wd on failure of the gear. Based on the OE part being plastic clearly it doesn't have enough force on it to require being bronze etc, just some bad luck gets some of them to fail (after dozens of years and 100s of 1000s of miles), pretty amazing IMHO.
If you can drive 2wd, there isn't much reason to flip the gear like mentioned above other than if you have to put the part back together to drive 'might as well' while waiting for the new part to come. If you can leave the whole motor off, I would have the assembly on the bench and drive in 2wd (or borrowed car) while waiting for the part.
The advantage of swapping the whole assembly is just in not having to take it apart and spend the time, but also minor risk in introducing a seal failure etc, all pretty minor. If it takes me 90 minute to refurbish I can rather spend that 90 min. on billable work and it will more than cover the cost difference of the gear vs the assembly, so opportunity cost comes into play.