[Longshot270]

Originally Posted by cody994x4

i agree jack i think it can much more easily be made worse. if he were to re-gear to lower, he would loose mpgs correct???
maybe in this case a fair trade off would be to go with 3.73's...but idk if id spend that kind of money to only go a tad lower.

Depends on your driving. You may get better city mileage because stop and go traffic will be easier on the engine and transmission because of the trade for torque. The highway mileage is what will probably suffer.

another good point you made was wind drag. when i went from stock 31's to the 33's i noticed this...i cant look at girls driving down the road as long as i used to cause ill be in the next lane. not much of a big deal but on really windy days it is def. noticable.



also isnt it a fact that things in motion tend to stay in motion? i guess weight rules here. this is one reason i want to get off of my stock steel wheels. w 33's and the steel wheels it is hard on my brakes, esp. when towing

Yep, that is one of Newton's laws. Call me crazy but when I got a set of alloy rims I could have sworn that the truck accelerated a little faster.

still curious as to what the 'ideal' set-up would be for his application...
I'm just making a guesstimate based off of the pegasus gear ratio calculator and some of the common gear ratios I've seen online.
I think a good highway gear would be around a 4.56 and a good city gear would be a little higher.

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