did any vehicle ever come with a RC44 rear axle?

NOPE!!!:D

Too weak. I actually know a guy who ran one for awhile till it spit out parts, literally, and through the cast pig.
I mean it. It spit out a part through the cast section, it looked like a bullet hole. :eek:

Reverse cut in the rear means you would be going forward on the coast side of the gear which is the weaker side.

Insayn... i think you can put standard cut gears in a rc axle if you are going to run it in the rear... FWIW i saw a HP60 rear last week the owner said it had been under his TJ for 2 years without problem

Originally posted by redruM
Insayn... i think you can put standard cut gears in a rc axle if you are going to run it in the rear

Wrong. Standard in standard, RC in RC

Originally posted by redruM
Insayn... i think you can put standard cut gears in a rc axle if you are going to run it in the rear... FWIW i saw a HP60 rear last week the owner said it had been under his TJ for 2 years without problem

Set the 60 guts, next to the 44 guts. You will see why he hasn't had the same problems as the 44.

what came stock with a hi-pinion 60 rear?

Originally posted by black&blue
what came stock with a hi-pinion 60 rear?

No such animal.

For a high pinion rear others take a high pinion center section and add the tubes, axles etc. from a rear axle to it. That is how they get a high pinion rear.

I read that an RC 44 (or any RC gearset in a rear end application) is approximately 20% weaker than a standard cut gearset in the same application. This means an RC 44 center section is probably a little stronger than a D35, but not much. In the real world it means that your gears are gonna take a shit before your shafts. Not a good thing...

I also read that the gears in a rear high-pinion 60--even though they're rididing on the "weaker side" of the the gear teeth most of the time-- are still a good 30 percent stronger than the gears in a standard cut 44...

FWIW,
Jake