Thanks for clearin that up for me shmoo, I'm rather lazy. so I guess a 10 minute axle pull and replace would be better, not to mention these are the (I think) original axles that came with my b16a. I'll have to silicone it for a week or two though. I might just get an axle from a junk yard until then. I see two new axles are 129$ Which ain't bad really.