anyone ever try this one?
we have an axle from a f600 and i thought it would be awesome in my 1 ton. any suggestions? my truck sits around alot so it dosent matter if its tied up for awhile

 

I can't help you out at all, but I agree, that would be killer!

 

It might be neat for a tow rig.

 

It should give you better fuel mileage where it would be like running an overdrive

 

Yeah but it's not going to be a gear splitter like a under/over drive. I'm not sure what the high and low range ratios are in the axle your thinking about, but chances are its going to be lower than what you would want for highway speed.

 

that would be cool. how does it shift? air, electric, manual?

 

Are you going to be cool with extreme extra weight and carrying two different spares, for the two different front and rear wheel bolt patterns? I have a 89, F-700 I had to pull the six spoke hubs and brake drums off one day. I had to use an engine hoist!

On a different occasion I had to pull and reinstall the transmission, once again the engine hoist paid for itself. (The floor pan is removable for trannie access). My point is F-,B-,C-600 thru 8000 series stuff is really heavy.

 

mguttery, theres a price for the cool factor.

 

I believe the F500-700 axles were at least close to the 6:1 or 7:1 range...

Add to that it weighs about 1/2 of what your truck weighs... might not be very good for gas mileage.

Though on the flip side, you'll never break it with your "toy" truck

 

well , when i get a flat on that truck i just call my friend who works at a tire place they do on road repairs.

 

That would kick some mucho ***. It would add alot of weight but the only thing is how about shifting that bad boy?

 

Other than the wieght factor, i think it would be a pretty cool swap to do. Depending on a ratio, you could easily pull quite a bit of wieght. We have a split axle on our 70 something grain truck it is nice. To shift it, theres just a little **** you pull out right on the shifter.

 

Theres usually an air valve on the shifter that shifts operates 2 speed motor. You go through the gears on the transission, then shift the 2 speed in to high range. When the gears are unloaded (clutch released) the axle will shift. Then go back through the gears again.

If your doing this with the stock transmission you might find out the gear ratios don't work well with a 2 speed axle.

 

Dave, you are thinking of a multi range trans. a two speed rear shift is electric operated, and is shifted 1 low, 1 high. 2 low 2 high. blah blah blah.

 

What ratio would the low be? Like how big of a load we talkin its rated for