Re: a question of differentials
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2013 12:26 pm
What were you using in the 60's?
You may have had more options back then than we did.
The only choices we were aware of at the time were the K-22's, the KS-22's, and welded spools. We didn't like welded spools.
It was our experience that if you didn't slap the accelerator, didn't back up in a sharp turn while under load, and were careful about appropriately matching rpm while landing from a jump after all four wheels were off the ground, then axle breakage wasn't a problem. In other words, don't go break something just because you have enough torque available to break it at will.
It is of course, possible that using them for half a century just proves that either I'm a terribly slow learner, or maybe that I chose not to let the big block Chevy overload the truck.

Are the 22's still available?
You may have had more options back then than we did.
The only choices we were aware of at the time were the K-22's, the KS-22's, and welded spools. We didn't like welded spools.
It was our experience that if you didn't slap the accelerator, didn't back up in a sharp turn while under load, and were careful about appropriately matching rpm while landing from a jump after all four wheels were off the ground, then axle breakage wasn't a problem. In other words, don't go break something just because you have enough torque available to break it at will.
It is of course, possible that using them for half a century just proves that either I'm a terribly slow learner, or maybe that I chose not to let the big block Chevy overload the truck.

Are the 22's still available?