24 NOVEMBER 20194-WHEEL & OFF-ROAD 4WHEELOFFROAD.COM
COVER SECTION: GEARS, LOCKERS & AXLE BUILDS
REBUILDING ROCKWELL AXLES
FOR OFF-ROAD ABUSE
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BY Verne Simons
[email protected]
PHOTOGRAPHY VERNE SIMONSROCKWELL,
ROCK ON!
ROCK ON,
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bouncers and even a monster truck or
two. We’ve been tripping over a pair of
these storied axles for a few years now
after they came out of another project
that went a different direction, and we
plan to build something big and bad with
these axles as the base.
What are we going to build? A dedicated
mud truck? A tubed-out, thousand-horse-
power rock bouncer? A low and wide rock-
crawler? We answer with a question: How
about a monster truck that can rockcrawl,
hit the trails, and run down the road?
Things may change, but that’s the plan for
now. A big, big-tire’d truck with Rockwells
that gets used, come what may.
Lucky for us, Boyce Equipment of Ogden,
Utah, is a longtime advertiser within the
pages of Petersen’s 4-Wheel & Off Road.
The folks at Boyce know these axles and
have a bunch of parts to both maintain and
upgrade deuce axles. After a few phone
calls to the company we had some trick
parts headed our way to make these axles
the perfect starting point for this project.