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Building Axles for Traction & Toughness - One-Ton Axle Tech
No doubt 2½- and 5-ton axles are the meat-and-potatoe axles of built mud rigs. They are cheap and tough compared to other common axles that are available.
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Jeep Wrangler Axle Wrangling - Part 1
While it’s difficult to pick which axle is the right fit for every rig, there are important parameters to help narrow the field.
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Replacing The Differential - Kopycinski’s Brain
Reliable gear setup takes experience and the proper tools to ensure a quiet-running unit and one setup to provide good strength.
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Dynatrac Rear Axle Install - Driveway Differential
Building a Jeep for hard use off-road means that failures can occur. Generally you can plan to deal with a few common failures.
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Ring-and-Pinion Set-Up - Gear Talk
Setting up a ring-and-pinion requires some bit of knowledge as to how the two gears interact and the physical forces involved.
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Reid Super Hydra 400 Case
What makes the 400 so desirable? It is the last of the old-school fully hydraulic-controlled non-over-drive transmissions. This means no failure-prone electronics or heavy, complicated overdrive gears
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Automatic Transmission Tricks - Kopycinski's Brain
Today the automatic transmission is the drivetrain gear changer of choice for a lot of off-roaders. Choices are varied, and modern-built autos have proven to be durable and reliable.
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Sterling Reputation - Axle Upgrade Options
When it came time to sling a 1-ton axle under the rear of our latest Ford project, everyone recommended the venerable GM 14-bolt. So what did we go and do? We built a Sterling 10.5 axle.
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Ford 8.8-inch Axle Builder’s Guide
The Ford 8.8 rear axle has been a staple of the Ford Motor Company in passenger cars, trucks, and sport utility vehicles for decades.
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10-Bolt Builder’s Guide
The GM 10-Bolt semi-floating rear axle has been in use for over 40 years. It’s been used in passenger cars, and light duty pickups and SUVs over the decades.
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80 Is The New 60 - Dynatrac Axle Upgrade
Dynatrac, the purveyors of some of the finest unsprung weight money can buy, has developed the ProRock 80 to support the tires and power off-roaders dream of.
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Solid-Axle Swapping - A 1996 Chevy S10 Blazer - The Almighty Dime: Part 3
How many times have you heard that "it's the last 10 percent of the project that takes the longest?" Well, that certainly rang true with our solid axle S-10 project.
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Borgwarner Transfer Case Build - Chain Gang
Like engine timing chains, transfer-case drive chains eventually stretch. The tipoff is often intermittent popping noises or thunks coming from the center of the vehicle.
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Solid-Axle Swapping - A 1996 Chevy S10 Blazer - The Almighty Dime: Part 2
We think Mike Gold's brother said it best when he came through the doors of Revolution Vehicle Dynamics, looked at our S-10 Blazer, and said, "That looks like a Micro Machines monster truck!"
