3.42 gears for TC
Hello, Just looking for some thoughts on pulling hills with 3.42 gears. I'm going back to a pop-up TC @ 1800 lbs dry weight. The trucks I'm looking at are the Chevy and GMC 3500's SRW 4x4...
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3 tons wrote:
“There's nothing magical about overdrive. It's just another gear ratio.”
Except, fact is that it reduces engine speed which helps compensate for numerically high rear axle - No magic is involved, just engineering and this is why overdrive exist, ‘nowadays’ there’s multiple overdrive ratios…
The other "magic" is that this thread was about a 10 speed Alli with 3.42 gears, which if you actually understood the differences, you'd know that the 10sp with the tall gears starts out deeper than your Dodge with 4.10s and either trans they offer. And the Alli has 3 ODs, which IMO are not needed with the tall gears but could be handy IF it came with lower gears (Which is to your point)
PS, I can run in 5th gear all day, doing a lot more than hauling a TC WITH the lesser of the Ram 6 speeds and 3.42s and turning 37s.
Youd have to be drivin miss daisy pertty hard, on stock size wheels to need to drop to 5th with 4.10s in your truck.
You have missed the point you were somehow trying to prove.
