High Volume Thrust Washers

HIGH VOLUME PRECISION THRUST WASHERS

Northern Industrial Manufacturing supplies high volume precision thrust washers that will meet and exceed even the highest expectations of our customers satisfaction. Northern Industrial Manufacturing also offers our customers a wide variety of secondary operations that can be performed on our high volume precision thrust washers. Those operations include: Color Code Identification; Heat Treatment; Coating; Plating; and, Heat Set.

Manufactured in the US, Northern Industrial Manufacturing understand that application engineers require high quality and tight tolerances for thickness, flatness, and parallelism. All of this is important for designing differentials, axles, transmissions, power transfer units, and other components for the automotive industry, and the heavy duty truck markets. Using internally developed and vertically integrated manufacturing processes, Northern Industrial’s high volume precision thrust washer line meets tight tolerance and high quality expectations of even the hardest customer’s applications.

HIGH VOLUME PRECISION THRUST WASHERS

When it comes to selecting the right high volume precision thrust washer, customers will consider several factors such as axial preload, gear chatter, and fuel efficiency. Customers will choose a more sophisticated precision thrust washer with a tight tolerance and the highest quality available at a right total cost for their application. These applications are usually in the automotive industry and heavy duty truck markets, along with the applications below:

• Automotive Transmissions
• Transfer Cases
• Differential Cases
• Automotive Rear Axles
• Power Transfer Units (PTUs)
• Heavy Duty Truck Motors

The Made in US Northern Industrial Manufacturing high volume precision thrust washer is manufactured in the U.S. with adherence to both tight tolerance and high quality. In fact, both attributes are applied to all of our products, including our other washers, shims, spacers, metal discs, and lock plates. The tight tolerances we can offer for our precision thrust washers are:

• Flatness: 0.001 inches (0.025 mm)
• Parallelism: 0 .001 inches (0.025 mm)
• Thickness: +/- 0.0004 inches (0.010 mm)
• Surface Finish: 0.25 Micro Meter (10 micro inches)