[01BlackOffroad]

To all you guy running rockwells. i have a few questions.. how many miles have you put on the street with them?? How well do they act? any overheating of the diffs? i am looking at my options here. i am planing on one tons with some 42's but i would rather have a set of 47 or 49's. i am in ms so no rocks only mud and lots of it... this truck is not my daily driver but i would like to drive it to the mud holes/ mud bogs.. how are pinion brakes versus wheel brakes. what is the smallest rim dia you can runn. and one last one is there a "rockwells for idiots" thread??

 

[el ranger loco]

and one last one is there a "rockwells for idiots" thread??

Actually youre the first person to post this question.. So I think this thread should become the ask questions about rockwells if youre an idiot thread.. Oh.. Wait.. ya..:evil:

 

[RawPower]

To all you guy running rockwells. i have a few questions.. how many miles have you put on the street with them?? How well do they act? any overheating of the diffs? i am looking at my options here. i am planing on one tons with some 42's but i would rather have a set of 47 or 49's. i am in ms so no rocks only mud and lots of it... this truck is not my daily driver but i would like to drive it to the mud holes/ mud bogs.. how are pinion brakes versus wheel brakes. what is the smallest rim dia you can runn. and one last one is there a "rockwells for idiots" thread??

Everything you asked has been answered here, so start reading. ALL 12 pages, and ALL links in those 12 pages. Its a lot of reading, but anything you're going to want to know is answered in there. http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=313836

 

[bigsilly]

And buy a red star so you can search and quit making the rest of us in MS look like a bunch of mud whomping hicks.:flipoff2:

 

[MUCHADO]

If you run some of them 54-inch puddin-pushers you should be alriite.

 

[01BlackOffroad]

I just noticed the thread about the rockwells.. i will start reading that.. that should be all i need. And i dint know any thing about buying stars???

 

[Azzy2000]

Why are you worried about them overheating??? They do just fine cruising down the highway at 55mph for hours on end on a 13,000# deuce.

 

[kaseym]

^^^^^thats what i was thinking

 

[Big91RustyBucket]

And buy a red star so you can search and quit making the rest of us in MS look like a bunch of mud whomping hicks.:flipoff2:

:laughing:

 

[aaron t]

If you run some of them 54-inch puddin-pushers you should be alriite.

that made me laugh.....

 

[01BlackOffroad]

well the overheating thing was just some thing that i read in the past... i think with this many people running rocks there would be a forum for just rockwell/rockwelled rigs.. insted of everyone just posting it in the general 4by section.

 

[MUCHADO]

well the overheating thing was just some thing that i read in the past... i think with this many people running rocks there would be a forum for just rockwell/rockwelled rigs.. insted of everyone just posting it in the general 4by section.

just run a bigger radiator





















:flipoff2:

 

[01BlackOffroad]

The axle running hot not the engine!!

 

[billybob13]

the axle wont overheat, but the pinion brake will. a pinion brake on the freeway is like a wheel mounted brake going 300+ mph. doesn't take much to get a pinion brake glowing red.

 

[01BlackOffroad]

yeah i know about the pinon brakes heating up. if i did rocks it would be four wheel disc..

 

[RawPower]

rocks dude, you won't regret it.