selecting gears for D60

GotWood

GotWood

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Guess I'm going to have to put a new set of gears in the crawler. I'm about beat down fixing this damn thing. Wondering if Motive Gear is a good product. Running a spool and 42's.
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Gears always been personal preference IMO. if its a daily Driver I always recommend staying at or under 4;56s but you said "crawler" so Im assuming its strictly a trail rig. Depends on your HP and size of rig too. with 42s regardless of the motor size for a dedicated trail rig Id say at least a 4;88/5;13.

Just realized you may be just asking for brand :dumbass: Ive ran Yukon gears for the last 4 years using Detroit no spin and a Yukon grizzly locker with zero issues on a 6200 pound truck
 
Another vote for Yukon and my ratio of choice is 5.13
 
I'd like to change to 513 by buti think this will only be a front regear. I'm just wondering if the Motive brand is worth installing since they are a lot cheaper. When I had my DD geared I went with Yukon. If the Motive is just noisy I'm good with that. If I'm gong to break it the second time out, that's different.
 
If it tells you anything, Motive is generally my preference when they're available.
Aside from OEM level gears (rarely available in a non-OEM ratio), they're all very similar. Most of them are made in the same overseas location to their brand's final spec. Yukon, Motive, G2, Revolution, Nitro, etc all set up well with appropriate attention to detail. The biggest difference between them is the level of finish work when it comes to machining. That has negligible strength gains.
I setup dozens of ring and pinions a month. My trash bin has empty boxes from every "manufacturer" listed above.
 
Yukon 4.56 here. HP60+10.5. Yukon Grizzly locker in the Sterling and Yukon spool up front.
Holy crap that was an expensive sticker.
 
I'm not sure if there really is much difference in gear brands. If you really want strong gears have them cryo treated, but my guess is that you had a problem related to oil. Maybe low quality oil or not enough. Definitely use synthetic gear oil.
 
GubNi said:
I'm not sure if there really is much difference in gear brands. If you really want strong gears have them cryo treated, but my guess is that you had a problem related to oil. Maybe low quality oil or not enough. Definitely use synthetic gear oil.
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How about 0 oil! I just bought the rig and it was not maintained over the past couple years. I haven't opened the rear diff yet to check the gears there yet. I'm afraid to look, ignorance is bliss!
 
You will want to run Lucas 85/140 gear oil with limited slip added.
 
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