Re: JPOR: Shaved pigs...

[Steve Friend <sfriend@xxxxxxxx>]

I know. I did this in July of last year. Finished it in Sept or so (family problems, don't
ask) and did the Hammers in Dec.  I did not want to post until I was sure it was fine.
Well, it is.  And Yes, there are folks out there doing it now.  I guess I could have
posted right away, but, you know, I need to feel confortable first, and I have too many
friends out in the wheel'n world to do otherwise. You for one.  So, sorry it took so long.
This is a nice addition.

Randy Peterson wrote:

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> Nice write up Steve. Great Idea.
> At the Johnson Valley ARCA rock crawling championships I saw many Tera60's. Thats a
> shaved dana 60 housing made by terraflex. Then at the Terra Del Sol Desert Safari last
> weekend there was a Terra60 bare housing sitting on a table for all to check out. They
> have cast their own Tera60 housing, with the flat shaved bottom portion cast into the
> housing (I think I read it is a nodular steel forging type casting ???). Any how, to
> allow for more clearenc they also shave a littel off the ring gear on the outside
> edges of the gears, making it a little smaller in diameter than the stock dana 60 ring
> gear. As a result the terra60 has 5.20" clearance, c/l axle to bottom of casting. A
> dana 44 is 5.25". I think I heard a retail proce for a bear terra60 housing is $1200,
> a little too much for me to pay. But I might use their idea of shaving the ring gear,
> and your shaved dana 60 housing with welded plate idea to build one at home. The terra
> 60's I saw at the arca event had bolted in place plates where the housing had been
> shaved.....I guess the tera60 housing I saw at the desert safari, all new casting, has
> not been out for long. They are selling them (bare) faster than they can produce them.
>
> Randy Peterson
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