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    Sold/Expired Ford rockwell and dana 60 knuckles for builders

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    Sold/Expired Ford rockwell and dana 60 knuckles for builders

    I'm selling everything to start manufacturing these. This is targeted to more to shops or someone who wanted to start selling these. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Sold/Expired Ford rockwell and dana 60 knuckles for builders

    I have knuckle designs to run dana 60 components and another to run the large Ford bearings with the Rockwell size shafts. These are only the jigs and all the files you'll need to have the components cut. If you're interested we can talk about a price. Justin (615)308-9372 Murfreesboro, TN...
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    Can I do a tranny?

    My family has had a transmission shop for 25 years and my advice is to take it somewhere to get the cooler flushed. If you had a lot of clutch material in it before it is going to run it all back into your new filter and possibly starve it for fluid. I say this because we run into it a lot, if...
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    Intrest in F550 knuckles?

    Sorry guys I've been busy haven't kept yall updated. I got enough interest to get enough made to drop the price down to $1500 a pair. I am going to have a couple sets left over, you can send me a message if you're interested.
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    Intrest in F550 knuckles?

    Right now the price is going to be $2500 for me to make one set, but if people want them I can make 10+ sets I would be able to get that price down even more
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    Intrest in F550 knuckles?

    Im going to use 1" spherical bearings, the same as the spidertrax knuckles. I also used these when I designed EOR's knuckles and to my knowledge there hasnt been any problems. For steering would yall be happy with a plate steering arm? This will be a cheaper and weigh less than the trational...
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    Intrest in F550 knuckles?

    I think you are right about these bearings becoming more popular, they are priced kinda high but once you buy all 60 or rockwell parts I think you’ll come out cheaper. And a big selling point is you’re getting a hub with a 5.25” od bearing, that is much larger than you’ll find anywhere else and...
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    Intrest in F550 knuckles?

    I am going to stay away from ball joints because of strength, cost and serviceability. The way I have them now if a bearing was to fail the assembly is still captive so you won’t have your wheel coming off. Another reason is you can easily replace the bearings in the field with just a wrench and...
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    Intrest in F550 knuckles?

    Your build is what got me thinking about it, and from an engineering stand point the Ford bearings is far superior over the traditional 60 or rockwell hubs. I'm going to get a set made for testing and then I’ll know an exact cost but these will only be offered as a assembled kit, the jigs to...
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    Intrest in F550 knuckles?

    RCV is getting close to fully release their big bell axles for the Ford hub so who is thinking about runing them? I have designed some fabbed knuckles around this setup and i'd like to hear some input from the guys looking at running these.
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    Budget truggy build

    I would find a cheap 2500 truck with a 6.0, you'll have all the small stuff that adds up like brakes, cooling, wiring. Put the 60's chevy body on the frame and throw a 205 behind the stock trans and 60 up front. Dump the rest of the money into suspension and tires.
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    Sold/Expired looking for 40" and up tires

    What size rim are they
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    14 bolt front build thread and tech help

    Do the unit bearing come splined for that size or did you have a get them done?
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    How much transmission is enough?

    There is a lot of guys running these behind LS's so they can take the power. The bigest problem with the transaxle is having too low of a gear, but the 4t65e has planetary final drive so you can modify it to be a 1:1 so you wont have deal with the super low gearing. With a 3.8 tcase and 4.56...

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