Re: Gear swaps

From: nosdakota (nosdakota@email.msn.com)
Date: Sun Sep 26 1999 - 17:55:35 EDT


I have to agree there
Joe W.
87 Shelby Charger 13.9
98 Dakota 13.1
----- Original Message -----
From: <GrnDak4x4@aol.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 1999 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: DML: Gear swaps

> In a message dated 9/26/99 2:36:47 PM Central Daylight Time,
> nosdakota@email.msn.com writes:
>
> << I know alot of people are going to disagree with me here but... When I
got
> the gears (4.11's from 3.55's) I also did some other mods around the same
> time so I didn't know which mods provided how much change. After a year
or
> so the 4.11's went south(poor install guy didn't know you can't reuse the
> torque to yield bolts) Anyway I then went back to the 3.55's and while it
> did change my 60' times and my end mph the E.T. remained EXACTLY the
same.
> The steeper gears were fun on the street but provided no value in the 1/4
> mile >>
>
> But gear swaps are really mandatory when going to a larger diameter
tire(like
> when lifting a truck) to help restore the power lost due to the larger
tires
> being used.
> Kyle
> 93 Dakota 4x4 V6



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