I don't know if this is common or not but has anyone else had the washer on the bottom gear retaining bolt compress in from being torqued on and then crack over time?
I had kind of forgot about this but when I first got my 01 SRX and was going through it I pulled the chaincase apart,naturally, and when I took the gears off I noticed the washer on the lower gear bolt had 2 or 3 cracks in it from where it had been tightened on. Perhaps it was a case if the previous owner over torquing the bolt I'm not sure,but the gear itself is made with a slight depression where the washer would come up against. To me this would lead to having the washer compress in and eventually crack and then all sorts of bad things would/ could happen.
I had kind of forgot about this but when I first got my 01 SRX and was going through it I pulled the chaincase apart,naturally, and when I took the gears off I noticed the washer on the lower gear bolt had 2 or 3 cracks in it from where it had been tightened on. Perhaps it was a case if the previous owner over torquing the bolt I'm not sure,but the gear itself is made with a slight depression where the washer would come up against. To me this would lead to having the washer compress in and eventually crack and then all sorts of bad things would/ could happen.
