Ouverson Engineering or SCS?

ThrottleJockey

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Saw the 47 spline axle for a 2.5 ton Rockwell axle on 'Extreme 4x4' today. Nice big beefy axle shaft. Anybody running these? They worth the coin? Or does SCS have more experience in pulling?

Brian:charger:
 
ThrottleJockey said:
Saw the 47 spline axle for a 2.5 ton Rockwell axle on 'Extreme 4x4' today. Nice big beefy axle shaft. Anybody running these? They worth the coin? Or does SCS have more experience in pulling?

Brian:charger:
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Coimg from the rock crawling world I can say that the 2'' shafts by Ouverson are pretty much bomb proof. There are guys running 600 hp with 150:1 crawl ratios w/ 54 inch tires getting them bound up inbetween rocks and the axles laugh at them. Ive seen people twist driveshafts and break yokes and the axle shafts are flawless. But I have no experience w/ SCS
 
as far as im concerned, profab is a very good product! they are reasonably priced and i have never seen anything but a input shaft on a drop box break. however scs is the king of truck pulling, now its like john deere so to speak, you will pay extra alot of times for a name, but i have never seen or heard of any of their axles breaking. come to think of it, I dont know if ive ever seen anything of theirs break.
 
bh10 said:
2 1/2 ton toploader w/ 6:72 gears
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are you going to try to use that axle for truck pulling? i would recommend finding a "f 106", "h 172", or and "sq hd", a guy in an alky truck tried that once and it lasted about 25 feet. dont ask me why but they dont seem to like the sport! $.02
 
i would stick with a face loader for truck pulling and a top loader for "monster trucks".......one they are way too tall and the gearing cant be matched by anything that will fit a factory front axle........6.17 is the deepest you can get for a 60......
 
Ya I would stick with the F106 with 6.20 gears. Thats what most run I believe. Then fit the front with the 6.17 like Logan stated. Also would go with the SCS. Dont think you can go wrong with them. I believed they called them rifle drilled axles in the rockwell right? Says it can be heat treat much much better with the help of heat treatment from the inside out.
 
2000wvdodge said:
are you going to try to use that axle for truck pulling? i would recommend finding a "f 106", "h 172", or and "sq hd", a guy in an alky truck tried that once and it lasted about 25 feet. dont ask me why but they dont seem to like the sport! $.02
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Me know, like I said I was just going off of what I know from the rock crawling sport which use to take up all my time, know thing you got to remember to is that most of these 2 1/2 ton toploaders axles that people through in there truck are OLD and have been put through hell in a half by the military, so breaking 60 year old shafts isnt to hard, but Im telling you the 47spline are bomb proof
 
2Tone12V said:
Ya I would stick with the F106 with 6.20 gears. Thats what most run I believe. Then fit the front with the 6.17 like Logan stated. Also would go with the SCS. Dont think you can go wrong with them. I believed they called them rifle drilled axles in the rockwell right? Says it can be heat treat much much better with the help of heat treatment from the inside out.
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That's the ticket right there, and its GUN drilled :)

BBD
 
Gun drilling allows the axle to twist without breaking as easily. Picture a solid center. All of the forces on it, as your int he very center you are pulling on all directions. If you drill the center out, then you don't have that spot of zero motion. We have discussed gun drilling 37 spline axles, but the builder didn't feel it was an advantage.
 
Yeah it doesn't make sense from a cave man engineering prospective. What removing material makes it stronger uh :)

BBD
 
LOGANSTANFORTH said:
i would stick with a face loader for truck pulling and a top loader for "monster trucks".......one they are way too tall and the gearing cant be matched by anything that will fit a factory front axle........6.17 is the deepest you can get for a 60......
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ouverson makes 4.90 gears for the top loaders now too and im pretty sure he can make a set of 6.72 gears for a 60
 
BigBadDodge said:
That's the ticket right there, and its GUN drilled :)

BBD
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ouversons violator 2 inch shafts i run them in my mudder and i got 57 inch rice n kane tires with 950 hp and 1060 tq and ive never broken one yet

he waranties them and if they do break theyll twist 180 degrees before they do

oh by the way im new i pull my mud truck with an 09 super duty with edge chip hoping to get some hints on the 6.4 diesel to get more power out of them
 
as far as I know, no one has ever broke an ouverson 2 inch shaft. Plus they do have a lifetime warranty. they also have lockers and the lower ratio gears. I read on pirate4x4 about a guy that was running his shafts with stock U joints and he ended up breaking the spindle in half which then blew up the U joint. the shafts were still like new.

oh and you can have these gun drilled also for a little extra
 
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yeah his axles are definately the sh*t to have and if you talk to him i bet you can get a gear set for a dana 60 made to match a dana 60
 
I have every oem part he makes gears axles girdle eveything haven't had a problem since I put his gears inbefore that I could break center chuncks in. Asec Randy makes awsome stuff my truck is on 66" rice N cNes and It puts out about 1150ft lbs tq no problem
 
When I was talking to randy a few months ago, he said he was the only one to break his shafts. FWIW, the shafts should work in a faceloader too. Ask him but i believe its a 172 housing.
 
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