Regearing?

[Southern Pride]

yea lol i love a lot of gear. most i really need to go is 80-85 mph. Its a little different for me though with stock exhaust i dont notice it too much. But with your straights i bet your ears would be ringin

Well actually 4.56's and 35's was before I ever got straits. It wasn't so much exhaust noise I guess, but at that speed it just didn't sound right you know what I mean? Like the engine should not be that loud just cruising at 70 it should shift and drop rpm to below 2gz but yea I understand for someone that doesn't need highway speeds ever it would be a SICK truck haha don't matter if it had a v6 I bet it'd be quick 4.56 and 33's

 

[jcloud]

ya.. im thinking about 37 inch mud grapplers for my next set of tires. so would 4.56 or 4.88s be better? also weigh in as you said

 

[dcZ71]

yea i mean it does kinda suck merging on the freeway, i about max it out and am barely with the traffic flow. people looking like thats all you got?

 

[jcloud]

i want a x15 for my next tire choice though!!!

 

[Southern Pride]

ya.. im thinking about 37 inch mud grapplers for my next set of tires. so would 4.56 or 4.88s be better? also weigh in as you said

J have you gotten gears yet??? and mudd grapps have a terrible track record for tire life. Jus sayin, but I'm real big on tire wear after owning my BFG muds for 6 years and they still had 1/4 tread when they came off

 

[jcloud]

i havent gotten them yet but i need to soon..im about to go get quotes on them. Theres a guy on GMFS he lives like 15 mins away from mr and he installs gears and can get gears at wholesale cost..so im gonna give him a call. his screenname is like axisT or something like that

 

[Southern Pride]

Oh ight i'd go 4.56 for sure but I dunno you need to look at the ratios of where each style gear will put your RPMs at certain speeds and decide from that The only other better way is to try each one lol

 

[dirtridinz71]

definately go with 4.88's. I have 4.56 with 30 in tires right now and its just a little too much gear, 4.56 and 33's would be perfect though. 4.88's for 35's. 5.13 or 5.38 for 37-38's imo.

My thoughts exactly! I wish I had gone with 4.88's instead of 4.56's for my 35's. Then again I hardly drive much highway with my truck. On the highway with the 4.56's I run about 2100-2200 rpm for 65mph, leaving lots of power for hills without having to downshift.

 

[Southern Pride]

My thoughts exactly! I wish I had gone with 4.88's instead of 4.56's for my 35's. Then again I hardly drive much highway with my truck. On the highway with the 4.56's I run about 2100-2200 rpm for 65mph, leaving lots of power for hills without having to downshift.

Yep like I said 4.56 and 35's was almost not good enough for me on the highway but if you had a dedicated trail rig man taller gears on shorter tires would be so awesome...Also for short races. Who needs a complete engine build when you have 4.88s and 33's lol

 

[MOBS]

Yeah, I went from running 2500rpm@80mph to 3000rpm@70mph. Went with larger gears(3.42-3.55) and less OD(.70-.83)