Gear Vendor

[Simon]

Gear Vendor Blown

I just blew the Gear Vendor clear out of the truck. Gear Vendor Inc. did a great job replacing the blown one with a remanufactured one. I feel the price was fair and the service was fast. BUT I am concerned this might happen again. While pulling a load weighting 12K, the input shaft broke which took out the whole thing, breaking the case, parts everywhere. Has anyone else ran into this problem.

 

[MikeH]

No trouble with mine with around 65k miles on it. Just curious, how many miles on yours when it went south?



MikeH

 

[geusterman]

The people that put mine in are a drag race shop and use them on their big dragsters. I think you had a fluke. geusterman

 

[dray]

I was just wondering what kind of fuel mileage increase you all got after the G. V. was installed. Are you satisfied w/ the G. V. ? Thanks

 

[DDDavis]

I would like to know how much of a mileage bump you get with a gear vendor? And what other companies make splitters for small trucks? Thanks!

 

[Doubleclutch]

Simon- I've asked the GV folks about that very question. It seems that there have been some upgrades in the later units to address these type of failures. The unit I had installed in Jan of 2000 had these upgrades. I don't know if there have been more mods since.

Greg

 

[Utah Willie]

There is also U. S. Gear that makes an O/D or U/D two-speed auxiliary transmission. The differences between those and GVs are obvious from the outside as the cases are entirely different but each does the same basic job. I have a U. S. Gear O/D unit and have over 80K on it hauling as much as a 12K Alfa. The GV unit, however, is mounted on a 4x4 between the road transmission and the transfer case which makes it inoperable in 4WD except as straight drive. The U. S. Gear unit goes behind the TC and allows full use of 4WD... . no big deal, though... . It just involves the altering of both drive shafts as against just the rear one with GV.

Some folks have remarked on the GV unit not being good on the downhill with an E-brake on as they weren't designed for reverse thrust..... Dunno how true that is, however... .

 

[Cappty]

Hey Simon, i blew out already two of them... . it alwas took a year or about 10. 000miles to get there. It hapened without any trailer or heavy wheight. Both times GearVendors reacted very fast and provided a new unit at nearly no cost... . I just had t pay the shipping costs which were 250 $ to Germany :-(



It seems that now with my third unit a have the new type which is called "ball style input shaft" I hope that this won't happen again... .



I am using the Gear Vendor most for driving at sutained high speeds on german autobahn. (110 mph)



Despite of that "little" problem very happy with my GearVendor...



But since i hd shortened the driveshaft to put it in, i have some slight and rythmic vibrations (resonance) at exactely 60mph.



I tried everything but change to a one-piece-shat. Perhaps I will try that...