Re: JPOR: Shaved pigs...

["Randy Peterson" <rkpete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Note that I said nothing about the timing of
this info. Just wanted to add some recent
shaved 60 observations.
Thanks for posting the shaved dana 60 info.
The welding rod info is a plus & your details
about the coped cover and the added cover
bolt are extras.
Randy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Friend" <sfriend@home.com>
To: <jeepoffroad@4x4wire.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 7:00 PM
Subject: Re: JPOR: Shaved pigs...


> ****************Please Remember to snip your replies***************
> 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:
>
> > ****************Please Remember to snip your replies***************
> > 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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