Gearbox Repair in Houston, Texas

Our shop sits at 8449 West Belfort Ave in Southwest Houston, off IH 69 and Beltway 8, which puts our trucks a short run from the Houston Ship Channel corridor and the wider petrochemical belt. Because this is our home base, we offer free local pickup and delivery, and that includes the crating and rigging on the heavy units. For customers outside the metro we ship free both ways, so distance never changes the price of getting your gearbox repaired. Every job starts with a free inspection and a clear written quote before we touch a single bolt.

We do all the work in house, from gear cutting and heat treating to bearing repair and final test run. Nothing leaves the building to a third party, and nothing comes back as a guess. We rebuild each unit stronger than the original, and we back it with up to a 24 month workmanship warranty.

After more than twenty years on the bench, we can usually read a failure before we open the case, but we still tear every unit down to confirm it. The patterns we see most in Gulf Coast service are predictable.

• Tooth pitting and spalling. Contact fatigue starts subsurface cracks under the tooth flank that work their way up, breaking the surface into pits that grow into spalls. A gray frosted look on the flanks is micropitting, the early warning before the damage spreads.
• Bearing and thrust failures. Race fatigue throws metal into the oil, which then chews up everything downstream. Extruder and high thrust units are especially hard on the thrust bearings that hold axial load.
• Shaft wear and fatigue. Worn journals, bent shafts, and torsional cracking from years of cycling and the shock loads common in steel and crushing work, where a single overload spike can cut gear life dramatically.
• Seal and lube breakdown. Lip and labyrinth seals give up under thermal cycling and chemical attack, oil leaks out, contaminants get in, and the whole unit starves.

We magnaflux gears and shafts to find the cracks you cannot see, then fix the root cause instead of the symptom.

Houston is home base, so the easiest part of the job for you is getting the gearbox to us. We pick it up locally for free, handle the crating and the rigging on the heavy units, and deliver the finished unit back to your plant. There is no charge for any of that, and no charge for the inspection or the quote.

If your operation sits outside the metro, in Baytown, Pasadena, Texas City, Beaumont, or anywhere on the coast, we ship free both ways. The freight is on us in both directions, which means location never adds a dollar to the work. When a line is down and you cannot wait, our 24 hour line at 832 270 2009 reaches us any time. For anything else, start at our contact page or read more about the shop on our about page.