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Marlin Crawler Low Range Gears Group Buy (1 Viewer)
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Do we have a timeline? Finalized price? Smoke signal?
Although I'm not the moderator of this group buy, I think this thread is to gauge interest. Since we don't have a firm price or delivery date, even the people who are "in" may not buy. The Marlin participant in the thread seems pleased with the interest, so I think more is better. I think folks who want in on this, are still very welcome.
Agree completely. But it seemed like it was going to start firming up a week or so ago. I am asking because I am trying to finalize things before a trip to Moab from TN and want enough time to get installed and work out bugs.
2KCruiser
Everything 2KRacing, practically live here
I'm in. Add another to the list and let me know how bacon bits is coming along.
There is no "Marlin gears" It seems as though Marlin does not make these gears, they only resell them. My guess is the Slee gears are the exact same thing... same with EBI Cruisers, and most likely Marks. The Aussies have used the gears many moons before Marlin sold them.
As far as has been discussed, they are produced for a different application and fit our Tcase.
Marlin has never claimed the gears they sell are produced themselves either. I think for some time it was only assumed. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
I hope we don't find out they are all made in China! 
Lol afaik they are all from Japan.I hope we don't find out they are all made in China!
Only the Trail Gear gears are alledgedly from China. I may have startered the "confirmed to be made in China" rumor after I talked a TG sales rep, who looked into it, told me thats were they were made. The more I think about it, I wonder if the sales rep may have had bad info to begine with and they are ALL the exact same gears. But I really dont know that fore sure.
At the end of the day it doesnt matter. They are a proven product and work well regardless of where you bought it!
It's not about quality so much. I agree a China made gear set would probably serve most of us well. But, if I can keep my money out of their hands I will. I'm about ready to make my own order. Seems like this huge group buy isn't going to happen.
I may add 1 more (total 2) if the price is in the $500 Otherwise 1
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Sorry- ive been dealing with mother post surgury care of late and lost track of this.
update: i have an email into Dave at Marlin about the group buy details/ fulfillment.
It looks like the Marlin Crawler website has updated pricing to $719 with a caveat of 1 1/2 to 2 mo. fulfillment and i hadnt heard back about group buy pricing.
In the interim i have reached out to Marks gears in Aus. regarding our group buy goal of $600. They seemed very interested and are getting me a quote on timeframe and shipping/ payment options.
more to follow as i get info hopefully later this week.
update: i have an email into Dave at Marlin about the group buy details/ fulfillment.
It looks like the Marlin Crawler website has updated pricing to $719 with a caveat of 1 1/2 to 2 mo. fulfillment and i hadnt heard back about group buy pricing.
In the interim i have reached out to Marks gears in Aus. regarding our group buy goal of $600. They seemed very interested and are getting me a quote on timeframe and shipping/ payment options.
more to follow as i get info hopefully later this week.
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as an fyi:
I inquired about Marks gears/ materials / as im sure everyone would be interested:
from Marks : We have been at the forefront of the 4WD industry for the past 40 years,
We are also part of the Hardman group, this group consists of.
Hardman Bros PTY LTD
Home - Gear Cutting - Gear Grinding - CNC Machining - Melbourne, Australia
R&I Instruments
RI Gear Cutting Specialist & General Engineers
Star Transaxles
Star Transaxles
Mark’s 4WD Adaptors PTY LTD
Marks 4WD - Engine conversion, transmission conversion, low range gears, rock crawling gears and portal axles
R&I and Hardman Bros are both world leaders in design and development of custom and specialty gears with more than 70 years each in the gear cutting industry.
So these gears were designed for Marks 4WD and Gear Master (old brand of marks 4wd ) and were the first and original gears for the Land cruiser 80- 100 series.
So we have all the confidents in the design and strength of this product.
This product has been on the market for quite some time and even speaking to the older guys around the place and I can’t get an exact date the gear started to be sold but we know that it was well before the year 2000,
They are a constantly moving item with batched of 50 being made being manufactured 2-3 time a year.
I have not had a setback to this day come back, due to part quality or manufacturing issues.
The original factory gears are forged and the material 8620 forged steel.
Our gears are slightly different as the cost of forging it to high.
The larger gear is made out of 8620 solid steel billet and the smaller gear is made from En86A as the smaller gear dose a lot more work and needs to be stronger.
This design it made to be stronger than the factory gear set with better material used the gears are shaved and case hardened then quality controlled if required they will be sent to grinding as a lot of the surfaces run bearings and must be right for preload and tolerances.
We manufacture under a ISO9001 rating so quality control is very important to us.
The gears have a 2 year warranty
Marks states that they have not had a warrantee return/ issue to date since 2000. So im guessing they are fairly bombproof quality and design/ manufacture. Not Chinese made most importantly.
I inquired about Marks gears/ materials / as im sure everyone would be interested:
from Marks : We have been at the forefront of the 4WD industry for the past 40 years,
We are also part of the Hardman group, this group consists of.
Hardman Bros PTY LTD
Home - Gear Cutting - Gear Grinding - CNC Machining - Melbourne, Australia
R&I Instruments
RI Gear Cutting Specialist & General Engineers
Star Transaxles
Star Transaxles
Mark’s 4WD Adaptors PTY LTD
Marks 4WD - Engine conversion, transmission conversion, low range gears, rock crawling gears and portal axles
R&I and Hardman Bros are both world leaders in design and development of custom and specialty gears with more than 70 years each in the gear cutting industry.
So these gears were designed for Marks 4WD and Gear Master (old brand of marks 4wd ) and were the first and original gears for the Land cruiser 80- 100 series.
So we have all the confidents in the design and strength of this product.
This product has been on the market for quite some time and even speaking to the older guys around the place and I can’t get an exact date the gear started to be sold but we know that it was well before the year 2000,
They are a constantly moving item with batched of 50 being made being manufactured 2-3 time a year.
I have not had a setback to this day come back, due to part quality or manufacturing issues.
The original factory gears are forged and the material 8620 forged steel.
Our gears are slightly different as the cost of forging it to high.
The larger gear is made out of 8620 solid steel billet and the smaller gear is made from En86A as the smaller gear dose a lot more work and needs to be stronger.
This design it made to be stronger than the factory gear set with better material used the gears are shaved and case hardened then quality controlled if required they will be sent to grinding as a lot of the surfaces run bearings and must be right for preload and tolerances.
We manufacture under a ISO9001 rating so quality control is very important to us.
The gears have a 2 year warranty
Marks states that they have not had a warrantee return/ issue to date since 2000. So im guessing they are fairly bombproof quality and design/ manufacture. Not Chinese made most importantly.
Dirty Koala
SILVER Star
sounds promising!
ewillis
SILVER Star
Is that $600 USD or $600 AUD for the Mark's set?
$600 AUD would be great as that currently translates to $455 U.S. I've been dealing with the Aussies a lot lately, and their products, pricing, and service have been top notch!
$600 AUD would be great as that currently translates to $455 U.S. I've been dealing with the Aussies a lot lately, and their products, pricing, and service have been top notch!
