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dave-m Tue, December 1st, 2009 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by JackandJanet (Post 17713)
And, Ford's torque control is going to get in the way if you go too high. Bill posted about this somewhere a long time back and I can't really think of a good "search string" to find it. Maybe if you search on all posts by "Power Hungry" and "gears" you may get lucky?

At any rate, if you put the gearing too high. the PCM won't see the need for power and will limit what you can get (at least that is what I understand). :shrug:


- Jack

I think this may be what you're thinking about

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Originally Posted by Power Hungry (Post 18484)
What many folks forget is that the PCM operates on a load-based strategy. The higher the load, the more power it will allow the engine to make. This is why 4.88 geared trucks often fall short in performance when compared to 4.10 or 3.73 geared counterparts.



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