gearing questions?

Digger 5 · Jan 3, 2008

Cascade_Crawler said:
how long do you think my 538s will last?

High or low pinion units?

Metalbender · Jan 3, 2008

I have 60s with 5:38s and 39" Irocks, and for the last year 39" Krawlers and I have wheeled the piss out of them for 2-1/2 years no problems....

Damnyankee · Jan 3, 2008

If i remember right I think the 5.38's are actually stronger than the 5.13's. this goes against what i said earlier but, there was somthing about the desing and the way they meshed.

I took a set of 5. 13's to bobby and remember that the pinion head wasn't much bigger than my D44 5.38's

Binder · Jan 3, 2008

My 5.13's have held up just fine and I have low gearing and a V8. Not all that nice to it either.

PORTER · Jan 4, 2008

Damnyankee said:
I took a set of 5. 13's to bobby and remember that the pinion head wasn't much bigger than my D44 5.38's

If you think the 5.13s were small, you shound see the 7.17 pinion I run in my buggy. Everytime I service my diffs I inspect them and cannot believe I have not broken one yet. Cute little guys.

jakes89f150 · Jan 5, 2008

omc-m38a1 said:
I have 33x12.5x15 with 4.27 gears. A Dana 18 transfer case with 2.46 gears and running a SM465. There is a D30 in the front and D44 rear.
My 17 year old daughter found the week point in the transfer case. It was the low range gear. Got the motor up to 3 grand and popped the clutch.

http://groups.msn.com/ScottMilliner/transfercasecarnage.msnw?albumlist=2

LMAO

omc-m38a1 · Jan 5, 2008

jakes89f150 said:
LMAO

Why? I was still able to drive it home.:fawkdancesmiley:

jakes89f150 · Jan 6, 2008

cause that thing is stipped to ****, and just the way it happened makes me laugh, i can see the convo.
you "So i had to rebuild my transfer case, the whole 4lo gear got stripped", other guy "Dude how did u do that?" you "i let my 17 year old daughter drive it..."
:fawkdancesmiley:

omc-m38a1 · Jan 6, 2008

jakes89f150 said:
cause that thing is stipped to ****, and just the way it happened makes me laugh, i can see the convo.
you "So i had to rebuild my transfer case, the whole 4lo gear got stripped", other guy "Dude how did u do that?" you "i let my 17 year old daughter drive it..."
:fawkdancesmiley:

It didn't cost me anything to rebuild it. I had extra parts. I still have that gear. Now I have a good story to tell my Grandson about his Mother.