Does anybody make aluminum Tamiya rig axle cases?

[Espeefan]

Yeah, I know Paul, I'm a perfectionist! It gets the better of me all the time. Thanks for the info on the axles. I always thought they were pretty durable. After all, Joe has run them for years, hauling dirt out of his basement, with no real failures. I think he might have worn out some gears, but they never failed to the point of breaking. This is all good info. Sounds like I shouldn't have to worry to much. I just know there will be a ton of torque on the axles and diffs, in my tractor, and I'm making it as heavy as I can. Guess if there is a problem, I'll find out! Good to know there are some hardened gears out there too.

[FreddyGearDrive]

Nathen,I myself have only blown one pinion gear apart,& that was cause of my own stupidity. Pulling a loaded semi dump w/a loaded 6x6 dump,pulled the shaft right out of the gear. Now your talkin moving a LOT of weight through one little shaft. I highly doubt you'll be putting your tractor under these kinda loads.Plus the tractor will never get the traction of a loaded dump truck w/locked diffs & fulda tires on it.
The F-350 diffs work just fine, a little cutting & they look just ducky.
With a little time involved,you would never know that they were a steer axle to start with. Just used one in my tractor/loader in the rear,& that baby is heavy.She'll spin the tires in dirt w/no problem!
F-350 axles are everywhere & cheap,you can go through a boat load of 350 axles,before you hit the price of a couple aluminum axles.
Just my .02 on this topic.
FGD

[dsm4g63punk]

i dunno if these are what your your looking for but there about as scale as it gets http://www.rcchannel.com.tw/index.php?cPath=34