Gearbox Repair for Dallas and Fort Worth

Because Dallas sits about 239 miles up I-45, a lot of plant managers assume that sending a gearbox to a Houston shop will cost a fortune and eat a week of freight. It does not. We ship both ways for free, and that includes crating and rigging on heavy units. We send a truck for the broken box, inspect it for free, tell you exactly what we find, and ship the rebuilt unit back to your dock. The 239 miles is our problem, not yours, and it never shows up on the invoice or changes the turnaround.

From the aggregate and cement plants south and west of the city, to the sortation centers at Alliance and southern Dallas County, to the food and beverage lines and the aerospace and fabrication floors across the metroplex, we have seen and rebuilt the drives that keep DFW moving. Below is the real engineering of how those units fail, and how we fix them. If you would rather just talk it through, our contact page has the direct line and the 24 hour number.

After more than twenty years on the bench, we can usually tell where a unit ran just by how it failed. The damage tells the story.

• Tooth pitting and spalling. On aggregate and cement mill drives, the surface fatigues under heavy, repeating load. Tiny pits grow into spalls, the mesh gets noisy, and eventually a tooth roots out. We inspect every gear and recut or replace anything past tolerance.
• Thrust bearing degradation. Planetary and roller mill drives carry serious axial load. When the thrust bearing wears, the whole gear train shifts, contact patterns go bad, and a planetary set can fail catastrophically. We catch it on teardown and rebuild the bearing stack to spec.
• Shock load shaft and keyway damage. A jammed crusher or a conveyor that starts under full load sends a torque spike through the drive. That cracks gears, shears shafts, and rounds out keyways. We straighten, build up, or remake shafts in house.
• Washdown corrosion and seal failure. On food and beverage lines, water and sanitation chemicals attack housings, shafts, and seals. Once a seal goes, oil leaves and contamination comes in. We reseal, refinish, and protect the unit for the environment it lives in.
• Dust contamination of the oil. Cement and aggregate dust gets past tired seals and grinds the gear and bearing surfaces from the inside. We clean, reseal, and refill so the rebuild does not get killed in its first month.

Bearings are the most common single failure we see across every industry, which is why we run a full bearing repair and replacement line right alongside the gear work.

This is the part Dallas managers tend not to believe until they see it. The 239 miles between your plant and our Houston shop costs you nothing.

• Free pickup and delivery, including the crating and rigging it takes to move a heavy gearbox safely down I-45.
• Free shipping both ways, so the freight never lands on your invoice in either direction.
• Free inspection once the unit reaches the shop. We tear it down, find the real cause, and quote you before any work starts.
• Up to a 24 month workmanship warranty on the rebuild, regardless of where in Texas the unit runs.

The 239 mile haul is roughly a one day freight run, so a Dallas job moves on essentially the same clock as a local Houston one. Distance is our logistics problem to solve, not a reason to overpay a local middleman. We serve the whole state this way, which you can read more about on our industries page.