Yup...just had my set of "Motive Gear" trakloc 4.10:1 gears installed.
(I'm running 32" tires and the 3.92's just were'nt quite enough for the
steeper offroad hills.
At 07:02 PM 03/25/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>I'll bet the 5.4 has a real good rear end, actually I saw it in a magazine
>somewhere and it was pretty good, like 3.9 or 4.10 or something. I'm not
>afraid. My goodness, that is all the more reason to work on my truck more
>ya know. Like maybe I need some 4.10 gears now. Anybody done that
>themselves? I might have to get this one done.
>
>Bill
>
>>
>> Bill,
>>
>> The new Fords (97 &newer) with the V-6 or the 4.6 V-8 I can beat and
>> have beaten. But the ones with that new 5.4 (I think that's the right
>> size) I can't beat with my Dakota. I have came out on the short end of
>> 2 of them. One a F-150 CC and the other a F-150 RC with long bed. They
>> move out pretty good. Haven't found a new Chevy V-8 that would run me,
>> but I drove one . It felt faster than my Dakota, but you can't always
>> go by that. It was a RR cab short bed.
>>
>> Now I'm sure that if I had a regular cab instead of a heavy club cab the
>> story would be different. By the way, anybody know how much more a club
>> cab Dakota weights than a regular cab.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
Bernd D. Ratsch
Pflugerville, TX
http://lonestar.texas.net/~bernd/Dakota.htm
1997 Dodge Dakota SLT/CC (V6)
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