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45Ricochet
May 12, 2015Explorer
Bionic Man wrote:goducks10 wrote:
With todays HP/TQ, tranny gearing and better cooling I don't think rear gears are as important as they used to be. Manufactures aren't going to gear a truck to tow a lot and have it break down. It's pretty evident when Ram made upgrades to the 6.7 and 68RF tranny in 2013 that the gearing doesn't matter. My 12 2500 with 3.73's has a max tow of 12,400 while a 2013 3.42 has a max tow of 17,300. Same truck with different rear springs and upgraded cooling. I wouldn't sweat the gears personally.
2013 brought substantial changes to the RAM HDs. It is not just the same truck with different rear springs and upgraded cooling. That is why the tow rating went up so much.
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To start off they weight ~ 800 lbs more right out of the box. Keep adding goodies they weight about 9K lbs unladen. Which is about 1200 lbs more than my truck weighted when new.
But again mine is a old 2006 with little emission equipment :W , no def tank and a smaller frame size along with a smaller front end suspension. Forgot to mention the weight of transmissions, guess mine is about 200 lbs lighter also. So yes Ram really changed the game back in 2013, more so in 2014, and 2015's added rear air suspension for the duallies.
They are all nice trucks bottom line, even my old 06 does everything I ask of her. Maybe not the fastest any longer, maybe not the most tech savvy but she gets the job done every time. Did I mention cost, yeah a new one costs about the same as some houses. Mine.... well it's been paid for since 2006.
Bottom line is everyone is satisfied in what they have, and some are never satisfied ever. Nothing wrong with that either. Their money not mine :B
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