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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dodge guy wrote:
Ok let’s make this simple once and for all, if gearing does not matter, then the engineers at any manuf. would not have different ratios for towing higher weights. But to tow an XXXX lb trailer you need the next lower gear, and so on. It can’t be made any simpler than that. If you don’t understand that then all you are doing is arguing just to argue!
It is true that for heavier trailers shorter gears are offered. The problem is that some mistake that fact to reason that shorter gears are better for towing than taller gears. 4.30s are offered for towing over 30,000 lbs. 4.30s are a terrible choice for towing 16000 lbs, especially when the truck is used for a daily driver. Peoples’ thinking needs to change to appropriate what is being offered with these new 10 speed transmissions.
