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Re: pulling HEAVY, now what?
| SnoMan | 27 May 2007 12:02 |
>please see http://inlinediesel.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=617 and give me >your feedback and advice. >thanks, Install 4 10 gears or deeper. I would not use Juice or Edge for towing solution here because engine strain aside, it adds transmission strain too and that is not the strongest trany stock but it should hold up well behind a non chipped engine. Chipping it will overload tranny. A 4.10 should help a lot and if you tow in mountains a lot you might even consider a 4.56. Your engine is turbo charged but it still sees some power loss at high altitude and deeper gears would help a lot here. When you tow a big load with a automatic you should have 4.10 anyway by default. Deep gears would help you all the way across the board too, starting out and backing up as well and will likely improve MPG towing as well. Your truck has a AAM 11.5 rear axle the same as GM uses and aftermarket gears for it are widely avaible (GM has used it since 2001 and Dodge since 2003) so you do not have to buy the gears at a dealer and get skinned on them as they will likely be 700 or more at dealer for rear axle and less than 300 for quality after market ones. If it is a 4x4 you need to change front axle gears too and it also uses GM 9.25 IFS gear in front in its AAM 9.25 solid front axle and gears can be had for it for about 200 buck or less. You could buy gears and shop around for best instalation price. Just think of gears as using a newer bigger longer pry bar to move same load rather than trying to pull even harder on the same small pry bar. ----------------- TheSnoMan.com
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| Nathan W. Collier | 27 May 2007 07:25 |
please see http://inlinediesel.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=617 and give me your feedback and advice. thanks,
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