Dingman's Build Thread

[Dingman.]

Lennie, blew up his gears not 30minutes into the rubicon trail in his 12 bolt.

That is the only dealings with one i have ever had.

[IronClad]

i ran mine on 37s/38s/40's to the point where it was bent in a U and spitting fire out of the breather with longer trips down the road... the shafts and 5.13's out of it along with the welded carrier are still running around the hill in someones rig..

All i have to ask  though is who set his gears up ?

[-Matt-]

i wouldn't run a 12 bolt personally.. but just like i stated, just cuz you have a 12 bolt doesn't mean its gonna blow up or make your suck. some people don't have issue with them. if you want to, your able to buy aftermarket stuff to beef up the weak links. as far as gears blowing up, thats not enough to say or think an axle is bad. i mean look as your gearing experience. toyota rears aren't bad.

[IronClad]

i wouldn't run a 12 bolt personally.. but just like i stated, just cuz you have a 12 bolt doesn't mean its gonna blow up or make your suck. some people don't have issue with them. if you want to, your able to buy aftermarket stuff to beef up the weak links. as far as gears blowing up, thats not enough to say or think an axle is bad. i mean look as your gearing experience. toyota rears aren't bad.

yep just tired of all the ignorance OH NO IT HAS C-CLIPS !! OH NO ITS A SEMI FLOATER !!  whatever..

[-Matt-]

ya i agree

[Dingman.]

as far as gears blowing up, thats not enough to say or think an axle is bad. i mean look as your gearing experience. toyota rears aren't bad.

Not saying they are bad.  I understand gear issues. I was just saying that was the only experience ive had with them..
Other than i hear every person say they are bad.

[THK Matt]

yep just tired of all the ignorance OH NO IT HAS C-CLIPS !! OH NO ITS A SEMI FLOATER !!  whatever..

Agreed.

[THK Matt]

they also make 14B 6lugs! just throwing that out there is all.

[-Matt-]

ya, its one thing to buy a 6 14bolt sf, which its still beefier than a 10/12 bolt, but its a lot of money if your gonna try and convert a 14bolt 8lug FF to a 6lug SF. at least from what i know. but when you have a 14bolt SF (6lug) your back to a c-clip style, the ring gear is a 9.5 instead of a 10.5 and there are more downsides to a SF than a FF besides just the c clip (like the amount of load it can take/and the bearing design.

[IronClad]

or just build one of these and never have to worry about it ever

[-Matt-]

ironclad..is that yours? do you have any info on whether the hubs were home done or whether they were bought. i know a few companies make new 6lug hubs for the FF 14bolt but there like 400$

[IronClad]

yep thats mine.. i did the hubs with the help of a friend.. basicly an hours worth of work per side of welding drilling and lathe work. my rear axle is pretty cheap.. i have the cost of gears/bearing kit and disk brackets from ruff stuff. so unless you can get  a 14bolt for free you would be looking at like 75-150 more depending and if you had access to a lathe

[-Matt-]

yep thats mine.. i did the hubs with the help of a friend.. basicly an hours worth of work per side of welding drilling and lathe work. my rear axle is pretty cheap.. i have the cost of gears/bearing kit and disk brackets from ruff stuff. so unless you can get  a 14bolt for free you would be looking at like 75-150 more depending and if you had access to a lathe

yup thats what i love about 14bolts. thats the way to go, id way rather do it myself then paying tons of money for some custom billet hubs. ive seen a few other people do what your talking about. aren't there a few new holes that had to be right by the existing lug bolt hole? not that id imagine it would be any weaken on an application like this..as long as you aren't doing it to a big flat bed hauler. did you just use a 6 lug wheel for the pattern. and did you also have to grind the 6lug wheel a bit to fit it on the 14b?

[IronClad]

ya theres like 2 holes that go through some welds but im not really worried about it. i think i used a wheel spacer to mark the pattern and no grinding had to be done on the wheel but only large bore alum and steel wheels will fit

[THK Matt]

any pics of the hub work?

[NITE KRAWLERS]

Killer runner man! Gotta love da 2nd gen yo! 

[Dingman.]

Hey guys..

Just a heads up..  Make sure you start locking your Toyota's in case you already don't..
There has been a few thefts local to my area of toyotas getting ripped off.

Just keep them safe...

[THK Matt]

locking lugnuts as well....

[86bobbedtoy]

I live in a apt complex,
I need to get a kill switch, my whole no coil wire thing just aint cool.
Im always trippin.
Ill wire one up this weekend

[Dingman.]

So i sent my Ring and Pinion in yesterday.. Hopefully i can get a new gear set soon so i can go wheeling again..

[83yota5960]

have you went up in the last week or two. any one made it past philbroke yet.  just looking for a trail report want to go up this weekend

[Dingman.]

Yes..

You can make it past philbrook.. A group we know went up past there last weekend.. We had to go bring them a part for a trail fix.. and the snow was pretty shitty.. but it was starting to rain when we were there..

[P-DiseToy24]

70 to 80 with a light breeze and stagnent amount of smog not a cloud in the sky

[Dingman.]

Doh.. Forget the weather..
Give us the real updates..  How are the babes down there? 

[Nicole8045]

Doh.. Forget the weather..
Give us the real updates..  How are the babes down there? 

Hmm.. So like you to be curious about the ladies Mike.
BUT. Watch it. Someones gonna get theirselves in trouble with a response to that one.

[Dingman.]

Come on Nicole.. I ask upon the curiosity of all of fellow marlin members.. It is not just me wanting to know..

Im sure some people where thinking about moving down there, and we want to know how the scenery is before we go...

[P-DiseToy24]

Hahaha yea this is funny.  to be honest man I really havent done much or met anyone but the dudes in my class.

[86bobbedtoy]

cracked frame?,.............. lol

[84t0y]

what?.............lol

[P-DiseToy24]

Blown motor....