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Hi evryone
Just have a question for those who are running S4 rockhopper gears in their sierra's.I was running these gears until I shreaded them all up.I broke the gear on the output shaft,to the rear diff, and chipped the one next to it all this was done in 2WD yay for money well spent.What I was wandering if there is anyone on here that has had this happen to them, what did you guys do with your gears after that. Did you buy parts if so around how much did you pay and who did you go through.I had already talked to a guy of this forum and he got spares from BBM,I called them up and they quoted me almost $100 more than what he got them for so I dont really want to go through them. If anyone has spare gears would I be able to buy them off you as funds are limmited and cant afford to go with some other brand(bugger)
I don't know how you guys are destroying these gears , Ive given mine a hiding , but only offroad , might be the oil type , maybe they are overheating , as for BBM , what did they quote you , Cheers Paul.
Yeh im the same as Paul, ive had them for a while and give them hell, havent broken anything yet, still running standard rubber mounts too.
I do try and look after them though, like i use high range first most of the time and only switch to low when i need to, then straight back into high range. I never use 4th or 5th in low either, even in 3rd going reasonably slow you can hear the little gears whining theyre little heads off.
MART wrote:I don't know how you guys are destroying these gears , Ive given mine a hiding , but only offroad , might be the oil type , maybe they are overheating , as for BBM , what did they quote you , Cheers Paul.
What oil would you recommend, as i'm now running these gears too.
MART wrote:I don't know how you guys are destroying these gears , Ive given mine a hiding , but only offroad , might be the oil type , maybe they are overheating , as for BBM , what did they quote you , Cheers Paul.
Seem to be really inconsistant, have been ever since the 4.16 gears came out, I had two sets ( 1st set blew going around a round about when I was only running 32's and no lockers, AFIK the second set is still kicking around and I ran them with 33 swampers and a detroit)
Hi
I have seen 3-4 sets fail and they have all been high range.As strnage as it seems you can flog the piss outa them in Low range and they last forever. .
My advice go with the Yanki gears they do seem to be more reliable.
Paul: I broke them coming off the lights and went for second and crunch I was alittle throttle happy as I had just got my new engine in but its only a suzuki baleno engine.The gears had only one weekend of offroad abuse which is not much.BBM quoted me $360 per gear which is alittle steep.I think I will be going for some trail creeper gears next when I have enough cash.
I gave my claminis a hiding on the weekend in low with out it braced and all that and they held up fine! Still going to brace the case just for sake of mind but yeah how do you guys blow them up so easy!
Built swb sierra, building a lwb sierra ute and have a dmax for family camping
I have seen two sets break and it's never when they're copping a hiding.
Unfortunately, I too voted for a US supplier and I have been very happy with my TT 6.4 gears.
Steve.
[quote="greg"] some say he is a man without happy dreams, or that he sees silver linings on clouds and wonders why they are not platinum... all we know, is he's called the stevie.[/quote]
mine all so bustard going for second high range was takeing off easy and bang .mine was the input shaft bought a new one $280 just got it back together fingers crossed. cheers ron
Still going to brace the case just for sake of mind but yeah how do you guys blow them up so easy! 
