Tera low gears

[Viperwolf1]

Anyone know of any good pricing on some TL Bronco gears?

 

[70_Steve]

I don't even know what a good price is anymore. I remember I got the best prices from the places that said "call for price".

I bought mine at Sams 4x4 Store. Just looked and they've got them for $738 for the LOW20B kit,

 

[gtnorga]

That's better than the last quote I got from 4x4 group buy in Jan $750+ship

 

[dieselbronco]

Last time i looked sams had the best price

 

[cracker]

I think I bought mine from Sam's a few years back. Had the best price back then...

 

[sprdv1]

Subscribed.... They dang sure ain't cheap..

 

[Bronco Junkie]

I got mine from WH a couple of years ago. I believe they were the only Bronco vendor that carried them at the time. I never looked outside of the vendors though.

 

[Buldozer]

Someone needs to post links to those sites.....I have not found those prices when I have looked at those sites before....

 

[garberz]

Terra Low gears, plus HD output shaft, why don't you just spend the extra $ and get the Atlas II. I know it's another 1K, but that would be the last transfercase upgrade you'd ever need. I find it difficult to spend $1200+ on my old Dana 20. I suspect some have already bought the HD output shaft. I've only upgraded to twin sticks, and carry a free spare output shaft assembly. I think it will be easier to decide what to do when mine breaks.

 

[Buldozer]

why don't you just spend the extra $ and get the Atlas II.

Some already have hardened tail shaft like me, and others want to be original and want to run a D20 not and aftermarket box.

 

[garberz]

I'm always curious as to why people choose to do what they do, especially on bigger ticket items like this. I've done nothing, but want to do something. So I like to hear why others have done what they did.

 

[Amac70]

on sams store http://sams4x4store.com/ if you add it to the cart you get the price of 738.95

 

[Viperwolf1]

Terra Low gears, plus HD output shaft, why don't you just spend the extra $ and get the Atlas II. I know it's another 1K, but that would be the last transfercase upgrade you'd ever need. I find it difficult to spend $1200+ on my old Dana 20. I suspect some have already bought the HD output shaft. I've only upgraded to twin sticks, and carry a free spare output shaft assembly. I think it will be easier to decide what to do when mine breaks.

I'm in the same situation. Twinstick with T geared J shift. Spare output housing on board.

The D20 is a pretty tough tcase. Something has to be seriously wrong to destroy it. I just rebuilt one (built would be a better term) that had broken teralows, HD output and a split case. The HD output housing was broken around one of the bolt holes. The case split because of the broken low range teeth. The question was what caused the teeth to break. The rear T shift rail was previously modified to prevent the front/rear from getting crossed up. However the grinding was a little too short. This caused the low range gears to become misaligned in front and rear low. This lessened the contact area between the cluster and sliding gears. That is what caused the teeth to start snapping off. Sometimes its the little things that cause the big failures.

I fixed the shift rail and rear housing and stuffed the new gears in a good used case. I don't expect it to fail again.

 

[Bronco Junkie]

I'm always curious as to why people choose to do what they do, especially on bigger ticket items like this. I've done nothing, but want to do something. So I like to hear why others have done what they did.

My Bronco is basically a stock LUBR that DOES see dirt. I wanted more gear without modifying my truck...the Tera Low gears were perfect for me.

 

[nhopman]

I'm in the same situation. Twinstick with T geared J shift. Spare output housing on board.

The D20 is a pretty tough tcase. Something has to be seriously wrong to destroy it. I just rebuilt one (built would be a better term) that had broken teralows, HD output and a split case. The HD output housing was broken around one of the bolt holes. The case split because of the broken low range teeth. The question was what caused the teeth to break. The rear T shift rail was previously modified to prevent the front/rear from getting crossed up. However the grinding was a little too short. This caused the low range gears to become misaligned in front and rear low. This lessened the contact area between the cluster and sliding gears. That is what caused the teeth to start snapping off. Sometimes its the little things that cause the big failures.

I fixed the shift rail and rear housing and stuffed the new gears in a good used case. I don't expect it to fail again.

I'd call Tera and see if you can just get the gear(s) you need to replace the broken ones. Might be cheaper than getting a whole set.

 

[nhopman]

I'm always curious as to why people choose to do what they do, especially on bigger ticket items like this. I've done nothing, but want to do something. So I like to hear why others have done what they did.

At the time the Tera low kit was 575 they fit into a case I already had that had already been modified for twin sticks. The case was mounted using a crossmember that was already there, and it already worked with the fairly new driveshafts that I was currently using. It doesn't sound like much to go to a 3:15 gear, but it really does make a difference.

I would love to have an Atlas and if I was building from scratch that's exactly what I would get, but for me, with having all the other parts already, it was hard to justify the expense of the Atlas, having to fab up mounts, and having to get driveshafts lengthened or shortened, and whatever else would crop up during the install.

 

[bigjhoov]

Last time I talked to Jack O'Brien hes said he sold some used TL sets.

 

[Viperwolf1]

I'd call Tera and see if you can just get the gear(s) you need to replace the broken ones. Might be cheaper than getting a whole set.

Actually TeraFlex sent out a complete gear set for that tcase. I'm looking to build another.

 

[xcntrk]

Terra Low gears, plus HD output shaft, why don't you just spend the extra $ and get the Atlas II. I know it's another 1K, but that would be the last transfercase upgrade you'd ever need. I find it difficult to spend $1200+ on my old Dana 20. I suspect some have already bought the HD output shaft. I've only upgraded to twin sticks, and carry a free spare output shaft assembly. I think it will be easier to decide what to do when mine breaks.

I underwent this decision recently. For me, initially I didn't want to add in the additional expense of new driveshafts and speedo parts for the Atlas which kept me on D20+teralow+HD output. The problem however, is that during the rebuild I also installed a new trans which when combined with HD output, pushed my entire driveline back to the point where I needed new driveshafts anyway... I love the tera lows, but I should have just done an Atlas, would have been cheaper (and better) in the end....

 

[jeffh355]

Do these gear sets work with the NV3550?