just a little more power
Hi all, We have an 2015, F350, 6.2,srw, crew cab, 4x4. We tow a Flagstaff 2020 529RLKS, uvw 9631 lbs. We live in California, so just about anywhere you go, you go over a hill, mountain. I would like ...
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time2roll wrote:valhalla360 wrote:Sometimes to split the gears just seems better. Yes if changing the final drive was basically the same as a downshift it would be mostly pointless.parker.rowe wrote:So assuming you aren't regularly in 1st gear and struggling, explain what benefit that provides over simply dropping down one gear.
The main benefit is not that it puts you at a different rpm closer to the torque peak...it is that you increase the torque multiplication in every gear.
Is it somehow unmanly to downshift?
The benefit really is keeping the engine up in the peak torque range with higher RPM because HP = Torque * RPM and HP determines how fast you can climb a hill.
Six speeds sounds great but often it is a choice of 3rd or 4th going up a hill and the user may want gear 3.5
Problem with this theory is the deeper rear-end is just as susceptible to this issue. Even with 4.3 it won't hold top gear when climbing a decent grade and as you say a half gear down would be better with older 3/4 speed transmissions in many cases.
The 6 speed is pretty good about this and the newer 8/10 speed transmissions really make the rear-end irrelevant except when towing at max GCVW.
