Rockwells From A Five Ton

WARRIORWELDING

WARRIORWELDING

Owner opperator Of WarriorWelding LLC.
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Jan 6, 2008
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Chillin, Hwy 64 Mocksville NC
I'm slow on the Rockwell tech. I've found a truck and the dash plate calls it a 5 ton. It's configured like a Day-Cab tractor. I've also got numbers off the front axle but can't find charts to cross reference them on! This things got a good drivetrain and reportably runs, but is badly neglected and missing to much to restore. I'm trying to nail down an approximate value? I see alot of 2 1/2 ton interest locally yet none on 5 tons, I also want to be sure what I'm looking at.

here's the digits FM240.hx1 ratio 6.44 serial 0618636

Thanks for any help!
 
it sounds like a 5 ton toploader with 6.44 ratio. that 6.44 ratio is the most common 5 ton ratio. when the early monster trucks were breaking 2.5 ton rockwells they all went to the 5 ton. they are very heavy compared to 2.5 tons and make the 2.5s look small.

they are starting to use them a lot in florida on the bigger trucks with a lot of horsepower and rice and cain v treads.
 
They is heavy, that's for sure, got a bunch of spare rrs if you need parts.

Was told you could swap the chunks for deeper gears, I think there are 4 other ratios, that came from Daryl at www.offroadfabworks.com but I don't know myself.
 
If anybody is looking for a set of these I'm considering buying the truck to part out and keep components other than the axles. I really don't have anything to run this type of hardware on. I'm guessing they'll sell for about what I've seen 2 1/2 ton sets go for in this area. They will be in the Hickory/Taylorsville area and come comeplete as rollers, nothing stripped and drive shafts included.
 
theres guys in florida with over 600hp and 6 foot rice and cain tires that swear by the 5 tons. a lot of them have broken 2.5 tons and its cheaper to go with 5 tons instead of the ouverson engineering 2" shafts for the 2.5 tons. i think they are too heavy for most applications. but if you want to runn big tires you need a big axle!
 
Def I mean I realize for stuff around here it's gonna be blatantly too big on the 66's but like I said I've just always wanted to

A:Own a monster truck, and
B:Actually try and wheel a monster truck on like trails, rocks, mud, etc.

Regardless of Practicality, and the swap won't be hard the sucky part is figuring out how I'm gonna get both the jeep and the tires to events since I only have a single car hauler trailer . . . .
 
Ricky, I've got plans, there just still in my head!

It's gon'na mud and pull the frame out from others.
 
I'd like to see the video for that! i wish I could have a monster truck.....but why stop with 66's? isn't there something bigger you can find? Bigger is always better!:Rockon:
 
I think I read one time that a 5ton steer axle weighs over 1,000 lbs:eek:
 
bottomland4x4 said:
speaking of videos for pulls. trucks gone wild has some from last year at the chrome shop pull. there were 2 trucks on 66s hook up and they really put on a show. it was on trucks gone wild #5.
here is a link to the videos:
http://www.trucksgonewild.com/videos.html
we were there for the pull and it was awesome!
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Cool, yea my buddy has all the trucks gone wild so I've seen em, If I ever get my ish rollin on some 5 tons and 66's and have some extra cash lyin around I might have to head down to Florida some time :driver:

dirtySouth said:
I'd like to see the video for that! i wish I could have a monster truck.....but why stop with 66's? isn't there something bigger you can find? Bigger is always better!:Rockon:
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Well it just seems 66's are the fairly common/easy tire to find, I'm sure there are others bigger but I'd settle for some 66's . . . . at least for now, bwahahahahaha :burnout:
 
"Whatever you do, dont buy anything from this LYING POS at offroadfabworks."
I sold him 4 axles last year, ain't never bought anything from him though. Showed up about 11 at night and we put the axles on a trailer behind a Ford Ranger, told me he was headed to Ohio. The trailer had to outweigh the Ranger 3 to 1.

He has a pretty bad rep from what I see on other boards, what did he do to ya?


Ricky it's a deal, but, mines gon'na be one of those lllooonnngg builds, wife and kids take most my money! Told Josh when he was over here my goal is for 80% of it to come out of the scrapyard.

Eric you're resident king right, you won Galloway's pull last time, right?


"a 5 ton rockwell steer axle weighs around 1600lbs without wheels!"
Try unloading by hand without a tierod - I'm still tired!
 
SSWaters said:
"Whatever you do, dont buy anything from this LYING POS at offroadfabworks."
I sold him 4 axles last year, ain't never bought anything from him though. Showed up about 11 at night and we put the axles on a trailer behind a Ford Ranger, told me he was headed to Ohio. The trailer had to outweigh the Ranger 3 to 1.
He has a pretty bad rep from what I see on other boards, what did he do to ya?
Ricky it's a deal, but, mines gon'na be one of those lllooonnngg builds, wife and kids take most my money! Told Josh when he was over here my goal is for 80% of it to come out of the scrapyard.
Eric you're resident king right, you won Galloway's pull last time, right?
"a 5 ton rockwell steer axle weighs around 1600lbs without wheels!"
Try unloading by hand without a tierod - I'm still tired!
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Ha, I bet you had fun with that shoulda just hooked up to the axle and yanked it off the trailer :lol:


Thats true Eric is our resident Pull Champ, might have to hook the Z71 Jeep up to him too . . . . think you can handle it Eric? :burnout::flipoff2:
 
i am game for it. i will hook to anything as long as we match weights! :flipoff2:
i just sent my registration form for the pull in lima ohio. as seen on trucks gone wild 3. it should be a lot of fun!:driver:

we hooked my blue/silver truck up to the chevy we just got done and had a little fun! i will say this i am turning the 16.1 rims inside the tires! just launching it on the road and they turn almost 98% around in the tire. when we were pulling i thought i had a belt slipping but it was the rim in the tire!

we need a camera man up here to film some of the crazy $hit we do up here when we get bored!!

hey ricky you going to east bend saturday? the mudbog got rained out last saturday.
 
Not yet, still studying, thinking I can wilwood rotor to the inner drive flange if I keep looking around. Need to go back up to muscle motorsports and scrounge around.
 
bottomland4x4 said:
i am game for it. i will hook to anything as long as we match weights! :flipoff2:
i just sent my registration form for the pull in lima ohio. as seen on trucks gone wild 3. it should be a lot of fun!:driver:
we hooked my blue/silver truck up to the chevy we just got done and had a little fun! i will say this i am turning the 16.1 rims inside the tires! just launching it on the road and they turn almost 98% around in the tire. when we were pulling i thought i had a belt slipping but it was the rim in the tire!
we need a camera man up here to film some of the crazy $hit we do up here when we get bored!!
hey ricky you going to east bend saturday? the mudbog got rained out last saturday.
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Dangit, I wish I could, my grandpa just passed and I gotta head back home tomorrow for the funeral on Saturday, my Mom's all torn up so I gotta be there :(

What psi are you running in your tractor tires? I'm runnin 30psi but I'm also runnin inner tubes in all of em. Course you do have substantially more power to your tires in the big Ford than my Jeep does. :burnout:

Hey SSWaters, you mean you haven't found out how to make disk brakes for 5 tons yet?
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I was just gonna try and adapt my pinion brake setup off my 2.5 tons to the 5 tons, figure I can make some kinda bracket to fit . . . .
 
hey ricky i am runninb 20psi in my tractor tires with no tubes. i am thinking of going to 25 to try and help keep them on the rim. i had one come off in our mud pit last august and it was not fun!
 
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