Gearing Question ??

[haystax]

Karmas = sweet ass skis, pretty much decided to pick a set of those up after this season, demo'd them last weekend.

I'm gonna junk my 2F and go with a Ford 5.0 HO, 435, toybox, 3spd toy Tcase, eventually. Or i might try the auto 4L60E? (think that's the number), still hunting for parts, last motor i found turned out to be junk. still looking, just not super hard. i'm kinda Ford guy, plus a good friend is a Ford mechanic who really knows the HO motor, runs one in his EB. but my money pit is about to be capped off for a while real soon here, motor can be next year's project.

last i heard, everyone says "in the works" for the H55 - Orion, but man that's some serious cash to stay all Toyota.

 

[Rusty79]

Congrats on the Karmas!!! Where did you hear about the "in the works" for the H55+Orion ? I would be very interested in following up on that. I would be happy to ditch the Rock Box idea and sit until the "in the works" produces an actual product. I know that would cost $$$$$$ to keep it all toyota but thats how I want to build it. How's the snow in your neck of the woods?

 

[Rusty79]

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[haystax]

You should maybe check out a few more of the Orion thread, TreerootCO runs one a sounds like it has a habit of kicking out of gear, thought I read that the H55 was planned for future, maybe on the LCML list?? I haven't checked into the thing personally, have a guy here at home that may run one once some issues get taken care of and more get into circulation. All Toyota drivetrain would be cool, no reason to fault you on that for sure, just seems like the vendors know that Toyota = bling pricing and many customers have the dollars to pay. Just a lot more product offering from other sources on other components, or maybe I'm just cheap.

Snow at my house is leaving rapidly, like 60 degrees today, pretty much a mudbog - Sierras are still good, 20' of snow in 10 days takes a while to pack down, been too warm even up there though, need some new stuff for sure.

Good luck, sounds like an ambitious goal - would be neat to see it in place.

 

[PabloCruise]

Thats a lot of Cowbell!

Here is a link where you can get the 3to1 gears, they are actually 3.05 to 1.

http://www.marks4wd.com/lc-extra-low-tc-gears.htm

This is what I would like to do eventually.

Scott

Crikey!
$1575!!!
I'd rather Orion it...

 

[DieselFJ]

That's why I havn't done it yet, but I do like the idea.

Scott