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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Jayco254 wrote:
jwco5.3 I know what you're saying about the gears in your Poncho. In my 'cuda I went from 3:91s to 4:89s made a big difference in the 1/4 instead shifting at 7000 r.p.ms at the lights I was hitting 7000 at the 1/8th, but I wasn't towing anything, drag racing and towing or 2 different things. The 4:89s in a tow vehicle might be great for a heavy trailer on a steep hill but on a long level stretch of road you would be better with a higher set of gears. That's where the math comes in.
If someone's biggest beef with their tow vehicle is on-ramp acceleration performance, indeed lower gearing may help. For that specific case, towing and drag racing have exactly the same goals and lower gearing will help. It does come at a cost as you correctly mentioned in that your cruising performance may now be hurt.
It really depends if the specific towing the OP is doing is always leaving him hunting between 2 gears. In that case a rear gear change may help. If he runs miles of flat interstate and can't quite hold OD it could change that. If he is simply wanting to pull hills faster it may or may not change anything depending upon the hill, load and speeds. It could actually lower the climbing speed in some cases.
