Thick gears or regular cut?

[Scott86MJ]

Is there any reason to not get thick gears. I have a dana 44 with 3.54 and was wanting to go to 4.56. I can get thick gears and keep same carrier. Thanks for any input you have.

 

[mudonthetires10]

I'm not sure if they will work with your carrier and stuff, but I'm not positive. I would imagine they would, but I know when I got my D44 and 9" geared I couldn't use thick gears in the 9" because it wouldnt fit for one reason or the other. Not too sure on the way it will work with a D44, but I dont think there is a whole lot of point in getting a thick gear unless you plan on giving it 500hp worth of hell on a weekly basis lol.

 

[shawn]

9" doesn't have a carrier break, so there's no such thing as "thick" 9" gears.

But if you can get thick 4.56 gears for the D44 (I dunno what exactly is available), then there's no reason not to run them. Technically, they're heavier, so there's more power loss to rotating mass..... but you're not running the 1/4 with this truck.

They might also be more expensive... the cost of a new carrier would figure into that, too.

 

[foreman1063]

Don't think you can get Dana/Spicer brand thick gears. That's the only draw back I can see, if you consider that a draw back.

 

[jdubb]

thick gears

It makes sense why OEMs used carrier breaks when you think how much metal is wasted on thick gears vs. moving the flange over on the different carrier. Then that extra metal multipled by a million ring gear sets. I doubt Spicer ever made thick gears. I doubt there is much strength advantage to either.

 

[Scott86MJ]

Yukon makes thick gears for the dana 44. The reason I'm thinking about using them is I have a trac lok in it now so It would be alot cheaper to get thick gears if I want to keep limited slip.