After talking to many newer Truck Owners, the Dodge
owners are looking for better mileage and less wear on the front axle joints.
Then both the Ford and Dodge owners are looking for cheaper maintenance cost
on the wheel/hub bearings. Plus if you are pulling a heavy trailer, you can
now use your truck in low range with out the bind of four wheel drive on hard
pack surfaces. This is real handy and keeps your clutch or auto transmission
happy.
The initial cost is hardly more expensive then replacing
a pair of hub bearings. The real payback on the investment is when it is time
to maintain the front wheel bearings, axle joint, drive shaft joints, and increase
in fuel mileage. When it comes time to inspect, repair, or replace the front
wheel bearings, the cost is now dropped to around $20-30 per side, not the $200-300
per side.
The design we based our kit off of is the oldest standard
of wheel bearings, two opposing tapered roller bearings on a common spindle
(commonly referred to as “Full Floating.”) The sizes of the parts
used are that of a truck with the same GVRW as your truck now is. This same
style of setup has been used by Dodge, GM, and Ford in there heavy ½
ton to ¾ ton trucks, and has been around and used for over 40 years.
The only reason they did away with the setup is that it takes longer at the
factory to install a “Full Floating” setup then to install a hub
assembly.
We also investigated the reason why the Hub assemblies
fail. We noticed the bearing cage is made out of plastic. Also note the distance
the bearings are apart from each other. The one bearing fell apart once we removed
it from the housing!
Now the 1500 Dodge owners can gain the same benifits
as the 2500/3500 owners. The EMS Offroad Hub Conversion kit is the answer for
you.
The benefits of the Hub Conversion are:
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Stronger Axle Shaft 4340
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Better Fuel Mileage
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Easier Steering input(in 2wd)
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Service-able Timkin Bearings
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Eliminates front Drive shaft Vibrations, in 2wd
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If you do break a stub axle, the bearing will not
fall apart.
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Less wear on front end (u-joints, gears, drive shaft,
t-case)
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Driving with a Locked front end, in 2wd, will not
fight the steering
The kit includes; New wheel hubs, New Rotors, Timkin
Bearings, National Wheel Seals, New Wheel Studs, Warn Premium Hubs, New Spindle
nuts, and all Hardware required for install.
Note: You will
need to have open the wheel center opened up to 3.425". Check your wheels
before ordering.
See Install Instructions:Click
Here
This product was added to our catalog on Friday 04 September, 2009.