I am trying to dicide on axles for my TJ and I have come down to either a pair of Sunray Engineering Ford 9" axles or a pair of of Tera 60 axles. I no the Ford 9" axle a good but I can't get a 35 spline ARB in the 9" but I can in a 60. So my ? is does anybody have or know of anybody that has the Tera 60 and is it all it is craked up to be?

Thanks

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yea, the tera 60's are good axles, although i heard people had problems with the early ones. ive also heard that they shave the ring gear, making "stock" replacement parts impossible to use (verify this someone..)

were it me, id get a pair of 60s, have them cut and narrowed to fit at a local axle shop (or do it yourself), and save yourself the cash of the tera 60's..

You can shave your junkyard 60 to have the same amount of clearence as the tera 60.

check out the currie hich clearance 60, it uses stock ring gear and gives more clearance then the tera, and if your so inclined you could duplicate it yourself

Yeah, I have looked into buying a pair from a scrap yard but by the time I have them built I could have bought a pair already built. The local 4x4 shops want alot of money to build a set of D60's. I can buy a pair of Tera 60 with 35 spline shafts, 5:13 gears and ARB's for $7500 or a pair of Ford 9" with 35 spline shafts, 5:13 gears and detroits for $8500. Those same axles built buy a local 4x4 shop would be alot more money - go figure.

Sooooo, dual ARBs and D60s are $1k LESS than dual 9"s with Detroits? Seems like a no brainer...I, personally, wouldn't use the HP 9" in the rear, if that's what you're spec'ing out.

Bryan

Originally posted by onsafari
Yeah, I have looked into buying a pair from a scrap yard but by the time I have them built I could have bought a pair already built. The local 4x4 shops want alot of money to build a set of D60's. I can buy a pair of Tera 60 with 35 spline shafts, 5:13 gears and ARB's for $7500 or a pair of Ford 9" with 35 spline shafts, 5:13 gears and detroits for $8500. Those same axles built buy a local 4x4 shop would be alot more money - go figure.

DAMN!! If I just had more confidence in my skills, and learned to weld I could build either one of those for half the price, fly it out to you, personally deliver and bolt in to your rig, fly back home. and probably still come out over 1500 ahead!

Now, why do you want RC axles? If it is to get the driveline up further out of the way and/or to improve driveline angles that's one thing. Otherwise I would go with standard, especially in the rear. A RC D60 in the rear is only going to be about as strong (in the R&P) as a standard D44.

Where did you find a pair of Terra 60's with ARB's for $7500? Last time I priced a rear T60 with a Detroit and drum brakes it was well into $4000 and the front was more than that.

Well lets just say I know people who know people. Who gave you a price of $4000 for the rear? That is way to high.

4K seems about right. I built mine for half that and it's a full floater. with 11" disks

Ya know I keep hearing about how people built there axles for alot cheaper than you can buy them. Well I wish I could, but it sound like everybody that build there own axles have leaf springs. I have a TJ and I don't have the equipment and the jigs to weld all the god for saken brackets on the axles. Hell if I had a YJ I would not be asking this question, I would go to the junkyard and grap a couple of axles and weld some spring perches on them and call it good. Just my thoughts.

I didn't build mine but i did do the welding.

It's not like welding the brackets onto the TJ axle is rocket science. RE makes the brackets, and I know a lot of guys who've eschewed making a jig, and just used an angle finder.

Bob