gear venders
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From: Phill Mo
gear venders
is any one running a gear vender??? if so your my new best buddy!! lol would like to no all bout them, best place to get theme, dose it work, is it worht the money, did you see milage improvment with out power losse??? thanks guys
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all they are is an external over/underdrive unit. have had several of them. imagine you driving in 3rd and when it revs high it shifts to fourth. that is all a gearvendor does, but adds into an additional gear essentially giving you a double overdrive. on an automatic itd be like having 5 gears instead of 4 or having 6 gears instead of 5 on a manual transmission. they are pretty reliable but high in price. new theyre around 3500 bucks used around 2000 or so. they works great but i dont think its necessarily worth paying 4k for installed. on top of it you got driveline mods to do and whatnot. if you can pick up a used one for the right price theyre great, but i wouldnt spend big bucks on one.
what do you want it for? do you drive highway long drives? if you drive shorts trips and not alot of highway miles its kind of a waste of money unless you set it up for the underdrive when towing
what do you want it for? do you drive highway long drives? if you drive shorts trips and not alot of highway miles its kind of a waste of money unless you set it up for the underdrive when towing
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The only place to buy them new with warranty is from gear vendors
Mileage went up almost 3 mpg for me! Now 21mpg on the high way doing 70mph and 1700 rpms.
Is it worth the money??? Thats up to you they are 3k and its a lot of coin but buying a used one is an option as well!!!
Mileage went up almost 3 mpg for me! Now 21mpg on the high way doing 70mph and 1700 rpms.
Is it worth the money??? Thats up to you they are 3k and its a lot of coin but buying a used one is an option as well!!!
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all they are is an external over/underdrive unit. have had several of them. imagine you driving in 3rd and when it revs high it shifts to fourth. that is all a gearvendor does, but adds into an additional gear essentially giving you a double overdrive. on an automatic itd be like having 5 gears instead of 4 or having 6 gears instead of 5 on a manual transmission. they are pretty reliable but high in price. new theyre around 3500 bucks used around 2000 or so. they works great but i dont think its necessarily worth paying 4k for installed. on top of it you got driveline mods to do and whatnot. if you can pick up a used one for the right price theyre great, but i wouldnt spend big bucks on one.
what do you want it for? do you drive highway long drives? if you drive shorts trips and not alot of highway miles its kind of a waste of money unless you set it up for the underdrive when towing
what do you want it for? do you drive highway long drives? if you drive shorts trips and not alot of highway miles its kind of a waste of money unless you set it up for the underdrive when towing
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all they are is an external over/underdrive unit. have had several of them. imagine you driving in 3rd and when it revs high it shifts to fourth. that is all a gearvendor does, but adds into an additional gear essentially giving you a double overdrive. on an automatic itd be like having 5 gears instead of 4 or having 6 gears instead of 5 on a manual transmission.
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Glenn.
It's an extra over drive.
So, you have all your normal gears, you just throw a switch when you want the over drive on.
The only issue i've heard about a gear vendors is that they have overheating issues if you haul heavy.
It's an extra over drive.
So, you have all your normal gears, you just throw a switch when you want the over drive on.
The only issue i've heard about a gear vendors is that they have overheating issues if you haul heavy.
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you can overdrive everygear other then first, so your 5 speed would be like a 9 speed, now you dont have to overdrive everygear, but its a option, and a good one for pulling long grades, did you see my other post in your other thread?
Install is not all that hard either, i did mine in my suburban, and rear driveline would be cheap to mod, front is a different story
Install is not all that hard either, i did mine in my suburban, and rear driveline would be cheap to mod, front is a different story
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I don't think I would spend the money, I've spent to much already. There is a few times it would come in handy. I remember going to Oregon and west of Salt Lake City on the salt flats it would have been really cool. No wind, beautiful road and signs telling you to pull off if your tired. 1K rpm's would have been good at 70+ mph, LOL.
