Re: what kinda axles???


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Posted by Keith in Washington on Monday, September 17, 2001 at 5:09PM :

In Reply to: what kinda axles??? posted by bluethunder on Monday, September 17, 2001 at 4:59PM :

They will be able to stand up to 39 inch tires just fine. They came with the same axles with 2 different ratio 4.89:1 and 5.83:1. If you have the original engine you will need the 5.83:1 axles which were the most common.

The axles are Dodge if I am correct. Do not know the # of splines off hand and the U joints are Detroit and are plenty strong.

The trucks were built for low speed and large loads. They do not do well at speed due to brakes and lack of power at speed. But plenty of power for slow work.

If your going to put big tires on the weakest point would be the brakes. They never were much good when compared to modern systems.



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