Sterling vs d80

its goin in a 1stgen 4x4 the reason I was wonderin is i have a few of the sterlings and i have a few d80's the sterlings are e350 single wheel units but the d80 are from e450 buses and are wider than a normal dually rear atleast they look wider.
 
In my last two pulls Ive been through 2 dana 80s. What would be a good aftermarket piece that would hold up? ARB? Detroit? Im looking for something I can run on the street and wont break 10ft down the track.
 
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The sterling nets a whopping 1.5" diamter pinion spline..
The 80 Uses a 2" diameter pinion spline and has a shorter overall length.

Aka, Sterlings are Junk.. The factory LS sucks. The axles are too soft.

*bdh*
 
well i would say if maddog hasnt trashed his he must have some tricks up his sleeve to save it!! i would personally like to know.....

last pulln season I seen 4 sterlings take **** shear the rear pinion and turn the pig staight up and down, including me but I just sheared a pinion......*bdh*
 
Does Maddog sled pull or just drag race? Drag racing is not nearly as hard on a rear end as sledpulling. Transfer case ration 2.72=2.72 x the torque. D70's survive drag racing even.
 
Burnouts, Drag Racing and Show and Shines are much tougher on the drive train than Sledpulling :bang:hehe::hehe::hehe::umno::blahblah1:
 
We made around 30 hooks with my truck and never broke a pinion. I did break several axle shafts and rear lockers. I have seen pinions break but all those they were where on trucks that did not have traction bars. They don't hop, rear axle moves ahead and pops the pinion. The best video I have seen of this happening is linked at about the 4:25 mark. I also want to say that I will be swtiching to a dana 80 for the added strength and availability of parts. But I don't think the sterling is junk, just not as strong as the 80.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojkEu8Dfpas&feature=user
 
When my Sterling failed it sheared an axle shaft, the opposite shaft had a twist in it, and the pinion was bent down into the carrier and was making some lovely striped wear marks on the carrier. I was launching at the line with the sled like I always do. Maybe it was all damage that had been happening and it took an axle shaft to shear for me to find the rest.

Jason
 
Mad dog put some aftermarket parts in his sterling hardened pinion shaft ect. The sterling has about the same sixe axles as the D80. In a rare case a pinion will break from bounce upgrade the pinion and it will hold every bit of what an 80 will. Ring gear size don't matter. LOL look at the 9" ford rear end's in the dragsters.

The AAM has a weak carrier I have seen some 14bolts clean out the front side of the rear end.
 
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where do i get a hardened sterling pinion shaft or is that something you have done to the one you have

Don knock the 9" - it has bigger axle shafts, pinion etc than the dana sixty, and the same size axles as the dana 70 at 31 spline and unlike most rear axles has a third bearing on the end of the pinion for support

Bounce will kill any rear axle sooner or later - usually sooner, so will repetitive tail wagging ( leapin off the line with all you got)

stix are harder than autos on parts, especially slider clutches that hit hard about 75-100' out
 
GUYS! GUYS!!
MADDOG HAS SPOKEN!!!:bow::bow::bow:

End of discussin, the rest of us are morons.

So evidently you ALLL have more than 1200 hp, or MADDOG......doesn't. LMAO!
Happy 2008, upset puppy!!LOL
 
MADDOG said:
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Please tell us what you have done to yours to make it live. I have asked you before and never gotten an answer. I have less power than you and have broken 3 10.50 dually rear ends. 2 pinions 2 rear ends and both axles in the other. I have ordered new ring and pinion, but where do you find aftermarket alloy axles for these?
 
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