BlackSkyRacing
Living Under a Rock
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- Mar 22, 2007
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Search didn't produce much, planned to call Profab Monday if they aren't at the pull tonight (they're local to me). Been playing in stock driveline truck pulling for a little bit now with my customer's rigs. Plan to put a truck together from scratch and since I'll end up in the open classes here locally, I may as well build an appropriate bullet proof driveline. What little searching I've found has shown me why some people that run open driveline trucks laugh at 1 ton driveline breakage and cost...
Anyways, I have a good source for the base axle to work with, studying them they're quite beefy from the start and have plenty of aftermarket support. So my question is, where do I start? I see there's Detroit lockers available, do they hold? Or should I run a spool and be done with it like a dana 80? What about shafts? Clearly I'm not going to be running in the 2000+ hp range or anything wild like that, would be happy if I manage 1500 on the budget I'm looking at, which around these parts would be extremely competitive. I just don't want to deal with constantly breaking because I went the wrong route on size and spline count out of the box. Oh, and who should I be tracking down to get one of these converted into a steer axle?
Anyways, I have a good source for the base axle to work with, studying them they're quite beefy from the start and have plenty of aftermarket support. So my question is, where do I start? I see there's Detroit lockers available, do they hold? Or should I run a spool and be done with it like a dana 80? What about shafts? Clearly I'm not going to be running in the 2000+ hp range or anything wild like that, would be happy if I manage 1500 on the budget I'm looking at, which around these parts would be extremely competitive. I just don't want to deal with constantly breaking because I went the wrong route on size and spline count out of the box. Oh, and who should I be tracking down to get one of these converted into a steer axle?