2013 Ford F-250 - Project Super Dirty: Part 5 - Four Wheeler Magazine
The Ultimate Adventure is in the bag, the story is written, and the truck we built to lead this event is dirtier than ever, but wait—we never finished telling you about how our new Ford F-250 was built to go lead this wacky week of wheelin. To recap, we started with a base-model diesel Ford F-250 Super Duty, and by “base-model” we mean a two-door with rollup windows, a vinyl floor, no CD player, and no cruise control (July ’13). Just a tough, simple, work truck that we built to go... Or wherever Editor Péwé takes us to. 1. When we last left our illustrious F-250 builders, they had just finished building the stock Dana 60 and Sterling axles with ARB Air Lockers, Nitro Gear & Axle axleshafts, and Axletech portal gearboxes (Oct. When you multiply the stock 3. 55 gear ratio times the 1. 5 portal gear ratio, these new axles have a 5. 32 final drive, plus they add 5 inches of ground clearance. When we changed from the stock knuckles to the Reid Racing inner Cs, we removed the stock track bar mount from the axle, so a new one was built of 1?4-inch plate. We are not fans of bent track bars, as the track bar needs to locate the axle side to side so a bend can be the start of a failure. Source: www.fourwheeler.com
