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jimh406
Explorer III
Nov 16, 2016

Remembered why I got a F450 with 4.30 gears ... observation.

During the past few days, I drove my daughter's families stuff up from El Paso in a 36 ft Penske truck. We were 23,400 according to the Cat Scale. We made it ... a little brutally slow at times. We ...
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Tom_Anderson
Explorer
Nov 23, 2016
Kayteg1 wrote:
Higher gearing is not giving you more power. More convenience yes, but at cost.


If you mean higher numerical gearing, you're correct. It won't give you more horsepower. But it will help keep the engine in the RPM range where it makes the most power, and it certainly helps get a heavy load moving from a standstill.

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