Interesting Reading.

[joeblow]

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=756832

[Ridge]

"It's my belief that someone with a Samurai ran over a Gypsy's dog or something years ago, and he laid a curse on the whole lot."

[simcoz]

Looks like all the yanks need a roctoy rockring.(another qaulity austalian product)

[ofr57]

make me thinking of getting smaller transfer gears and uping the diff gears

[sheps]

why would they go to the trouble of making 42inch tyres fit and still run a sierra transfer case?
seppo's are strange

[Gwagensteve]

why would they go to the trouble of making 42inch tyres fit and still run a sierra transfer case?
seppo's are strange

Bingo.

It's years since we've had gears fail the in the club in vic.

Steve.

[Guy]

why would they go to the trouble of making 42inch tyres fit and still run a sierra transfer case?
seppo's are strange

Bingo.

It's years since we've had gears fail the in the club in vic.

Steve.

The 6 to 1's and 4.16 to 1's were notorious exploders though.

The cut and shut 4.16s were found to have quite a bit of runout, never owned 6 to 1.s .. any idea why so many of them used to go boom.

[GRPABT1]

Well I drive my zook daily and it has a lightly worked GTi motor, stock ratio wt diffs with rear lockright and runs on 31" pedes and I give it a whole lot of hell on the blacktop which afaik would be probably the worst thing I could do to it. My trail gear 6.5's in mighty kong with gorilla grip mounts are still going strong after a year of this. I have started to twist rear axles and I'm getting the uni's on the rear shaft replaced atm but still the gears are fine. I think like others mentioned that these guys are just asking too much of the gears with their tyre size. I might suss out some 4.1's for when I go to 32" pedes or similar next tyre change, I'll want the extra high range gearing anyway.

[dank]

Well I drive my zook daily and it has a lightly worked GTi motor, stock ratio wt diffs with rear lockright and runs on 31" pedes and I give it a whole lot of hell on the blacktop which afaik would be probably the worst thing I could do to it. My trail gear 6.5's in mighty kong with gorilla grip mounts are still going strong after a year of this. I have started to twist rear axles and I'm getting the uni's on the rear shaft replaced atm but still the gears are fine. I think like others mentioned that these guys are just asking too much of the gears with their tyre size. I might suss out some 4.1's for when I go to 32" pedes or similar next tyre change, I'll want the extra high range gearing anyway.

Go the trail tough 4.9s had mine in for years on 31s then 34s lockrite front then in the rear with airlocker front. I keep the oil clean and they have never missed a beat.

[Gwagensteve]

The 6 to 1's and 4.16 to 1's were notorious exploders though.

Of sure, I've seen/heard of lots of failures, but nothing lately.

We're blowing axles, diffs and mounts but not gears.

Steve.

[Highway-Star]

That read wasn't that intersting, though its good to hear that trail gear's customer service was up to scratch.

BTW; I've racked up around 20,000km on my trail tough 4.9s so far, no issues (had a roctoy ring on them since day 1).

[GRPABT1]

Well I drive my zook daily and it has a lightly worked GTi motor, stock ratio wt diffs with rear lockright and runs on 31" pedes and I give it a whole lot of hell on the blacktop which afaik would be probably the worst thing I could do to it. My trail gear 6.5's in mighty kong with gorilla grip mounts are still going strong after a year of this. I have started to twist rear axles and I'm getting the uni's on the rear shaft replaced atm but still the gears are fine. I think like others mentioned that these guys are just asking too much of the gears with their tyre size. I might suss out some 4.1's for when I go to 32" pedes or similar next tyre change, I'll want the extra high range gearing anyway.

Go the trail tough 4.9s had mine in for years on 31s then 34s lockrite front then in the rear with airlocker front. I keep the oil clean and they have never missed a beat.

It'll depend on what size tyres I can fit what diff gears I get, I don't really want to go too much higher than 33" though as it's pretty high already and I'm not in victoria.