Precision Thrust Washers

PRECISION THRUST WASHERS

Northern Industrial Manufacturing supplies made in the USA precision thrust washers that will meet and exceed even the highest expectations of our customer’s satisfaction. Northern Industrial Manufacturing also offers our customers a wide variety of secondary operations that can be performed on our precision thrust washers.

At Northern Industrial Manufacturing we 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 precision thrust washers meet tight tolerance and high quality expectations of even customer’s hardest applications.

When it comes to selecting the right precision thrust washer, customers will consider several factors such as axial preload, gear chatter, and fuel efficiency. Some customers may choose a more sophisticated precision thrust washer with tight tolerance and the highest quality for their application. These applications are most often found in the automotive industry in addition to the heavy duty truck markets. The power transmission components that precision thrust washers are found include:

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

The Northern Industrial Manufacturing 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: