ok been lots of talk on here of late of people saying the tcase is weak
so how weak is it

post up if you have ever exploded one

i dont wana hear about ur friends mates uncle that exploded one either:flipoff2: first hand experience

also post up ur tire size and motor
and how was it mounted (did it pick up more bolts then the standard 8 bolt's)

ok been lots of talk on here of late of people saying the tcase is weak
so how weak is it

post up if you have ever exploded one

i dont wana hear about ur friends mates uncle that exploded one either:flipoff2: first hand experience



I ran 37's and the stock 1.3 for a year and snapped the front output while crawling (had 6:1's in at the time). I babied the drivetrain back then. Nowadays we are driving 20 foot vertical walls with the help of momentum so I would have 0 confidence in a Zuk t-case now. I have personally seen 2 other front output breaks and a cracked t-case, none of the rigs had bigger than 36" tires on them.

i have cracked a case once.

Never broke anything internally. I was using a case in comp with a rear dline disco....I never had a problem doing front digs:D

I have broken one and I have watched 2 others break. Ours were all the same - case broke at the long side (crap, maybe short side) mount.. ripped the mount and a decent sized chunk of the case right off - I'm sure I have pics somewhere..

We've never seen problems with the internals - just the case.

You wont break a case with a Sam Box :D

http://hbrk4x4.com/images/Billet%20Tcase.jpg

Nice case!

I broke a front output with 31s and a 1.6. It was stupidity on my part though. I was pulling my friend's girlfriend's Tracker out of some deep mud in reverse and it let go. I hate mud.:D

Nice case!
Yeah that is Jason :D

Give me a call sometime bro!

broke the internals from the unbalanced 42's hammering on them, they let go when I was idling around my block in the 'hood. I also fragged some gears on the highway with 31's and 1.6l I think it was just bad bearings, they had been making noise for some time.

ive personally gernaded two cases. one had a rr long arm and stock short arm the other had spidertrax arms and a forest bucket. both on 36iroks and 1/2 tons with 4.56 gears. i think the high r/p had a lot to do with it. i trashed my first gear this past weekend; the main input on a 6.4 gearset. whatever, thats all part of it. i definately see a sambox II coming my way if i loose one more case though.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=54087

people who are breaking front outputs... did you shim it at all?

i cracked 3 cases, they were being used as a second t-case setup at the time in an 8v sidekick with 36 iroks. The last one that i broke had every single bolt in the transfer case in use, so instead of the arm mount area breaking off, i cracked the entire case right in half! i am extremely hard on my truck tho. I now run a dana 300 married, I have tried my best to break it, and i can't. very pleased. it's a heavy hawse to lift in there tho :eek:

Ive broken two cases. I run a toyota 20r, automatic, full width GM axles with 5.38's, and 38" swamper radials that measure 36" tall.

The first one took out some of the gears in a welded GRSII set. The first set died because I was in too much of a hurry to get on the trail. I waited adn decided to make a run instead of installing my axle gears that were sitting on the shelf. Unfortunately I didnt realize until after I sold the good input that the gears that broke were factory gears and not the grsII gears. I could have repaired the gearset.

This is my tcase bucket. It only ties into the stock mounts. The zlink was only temporary to move it around.
http://www.texasoffroad.net/albums/lonestar/album480/MVC_893S.sized.jpg

The broken gears and case
http://www.texasoffroad.net/albums/lonestar/album480/MVC_002S.sized.jpg
http://www.texasoffroad.net/albums/lonestar/album480/MVC_003S.sized.jpg
http://www.texasoffroad.net/albums/lonestar/album480/MVC_005S.sized.jpg


The second one is still in my Samurai, but the internals are still good. I made it back to camp towing a 1 ton Blazer Buggy on 44's using a ratchet strap to hold the tcase to my bucket. It broke because I had too much traction, pulling against too much of a load in reverse.

Paul