Rear axle ratios
I've had a hard time finding a truck with everything I want on it, so I'm debating the need for higher rear axle ratios. Here are the net 1st gear ratios for various half-ton trucks: Make Rear ...
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Tachdriver wrote:
I was just on another forum and the 2016 towing spec shows the same towing capacity of the 3.55 as the 3.31.
You're right; it appears that the payload package is what gives it more capacity.
I'm not so much interested in the tow rating though, which is *usually* heavily influenced by the gear ratio, but rather just in how well it pulls. My post was prompted by reports of the Ram 2500 with 6.4 Hemi bogging with the standard gears. When I ran the numbers I saw that the net ratio is relatively low due to the ratios of the transmission (12.05 with a 3.73 rear).
