3.31 gears at 40,000 lbs gross.
Just to give a bit of a feel for how different gear ratios would behave while towing I locked out 10 then 10th and 9th then added them back again while travelling on a straight stretch of road w...
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ShinerBock wrote:
All I did was make a general comment that taller gears put more stress on the trans than shorter gears and some got triggered by it as if I was personally insulting their truck or truck brand.
This is not true. This isn’t about me feeling hurt or insulted. You used unsound reasoning that I wanted to point out to you and others. You stated something to the effect that because you see all these tall geared trucks with grenaded overdrive gears you order nothing but short gears in your fleet especially for towing heavy. I simply wanted to point out that with the 10 r140 if saving your overdrive clutches from grenading while towing is the goal then taller gears are better suited.
