Is Re-gearing worth it?
Hello all. My name is James. My wife and I just purchased a 2012 Coleman 274BH and we absolutely love it. It comes in at 4580 dry. Our TV is a very low mileage mint condition 2007 F150 with the 4.6...
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06Fargo wrote:wnjj wrote:06Fargo wrote:
Increasing gear reduction as close to the wheel ends as possible (i.e. from 3.55 to 4.56 axle ratios) will always increase pulling performance vs downshifting in the transmission.
Look at heavy haul road tractors, large farm tractors, large combines, wheel loaders, etc - all have planetary reduction wheel ends on their axles.
That isn't done at the wheels to increase performance. It's done there to reduce to torque on the axles.
Lower rear end gears will close the gap between your tranny gears because you can now use all of them instead of skipping OD. It can effectively add another gear while towing,
That's true.
But in a non-planetary axle situation, with same engine power and same transmissions, the vehicle with the lower rear axle gearing will outpull the higher geared vehicle at all speeds.
Yep. And for the same reason the wheel planetaries reduce torque on the axles, lower rear axle gears will reduce the torque required at the transmission and driveline (in exchange for more RPM).
