Justification to purchase a newer truck ?
If so, cool...go for it...it's your money...
If me (note I keep mine for decades) for less $$$...on my list are 4.54's or 4.88's on both diiferentials and an over drive with OD 0.7 or 0.6 or 0.5 ratios with a splitter function...for the day a gosh darn have to rebuild the 7.4L into a "built" 7.4L
Thought about 5.13's, but that negates the double OD and gets back close to the current OD of 3.0...so 4.88's begets 2.85'sfinal double OD
That will then provide the type of close ratio gearing the current &a next gen trucks have...my 4 speed automatic will become an 8 speed with a double OD and a lower first gear.
Plus a kit to manually switch to 4x4 lock...giving compound low with the above ratios to maneuver a trailer around a difficult camp ground
Gotta say too many view and talk about these things without looking at the whole system, but only sections of the whole...like just the diff ratio without the up stream gear ratios that factor the diff ratio...or that any gear ratio other than 1:1 is a torque multiplier by the ratio in question..
