I thought this was interesting: http://www.motorsports.axletech.com/portal.asp

Terry

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2011 Ford F-150 XLT 4X4

A friend of mine from Toyota and I are working on a buggy for the KOH next year around some prototype Portal Axles. They're going to use some big ole 14 Bolt Center sections milled from Aluminum and the Portal Hubs... should be Nuke Proof... assuming we can build them.

I'll let you know how they turn out...

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Seth Green
Western Sales Manager
ARB USA
Used to have: 02 Rene w/ SFA Swap. Sold... I'll miss her
New Baby is an 07 1500 Dodge HEMI
6" Lift and lots O Go Fast parts

I guess they have them for the Dana 60 and working on the Dana 44. I'm watching this for future mods.

Terry

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2011 Ford F-150 XLT 4X4

The only downfall of portals is you need to run very large rims to clear them.I guess the other is with the 2 gear portals you need to redo the powertrain due to the wheel ends will be spinning in reverse when in "D".

Those are 4 gear portals. Oh and you gave me s--t when I brought this up in "What we need" section.

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Geneva Illinois
2000 XJ 2.5" lift 245-75R16 MT's on Moabs
2006 KJ sport rear Air Lift,Clevis lift, front hitch rec. point,Front and Trans skids,Really Nice Roof Bars!
3 Jeeps owned
Favorite Destination Gunnison Co.

A friend and I are talking about using a set of Spider 9's and Hummer portal outers to make a set of axles for my LWB Samurai. We'd use. 2.73 ring and pinions to keep the final drive (around 5.45) reasonable for my diesel motor.

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2006 KJ CRD Ltd - Suncoast, GDE Eco, EGR Delete, After market T-Stat, Skid Row skids, V6 airbox, 2.5" Turbo back
2005 KJ CRD Sport-Suncoast, Transco, GDE Hot-GDE Trans, EGR Delete, Skid Row skids, V6 airbox, 2.5" Turbo back, After market S-Stat
1987 Suzuki LWB Samurai -diesel powered, custom 4 link coil suspension 38.5 SX Swampers