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Old Feb 8, 2010 | 09:16 PM
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gear help?
Ok so I did the check for my gear ratios.. I rolled the truck, and after one revolution the driveshaft turned 3.75 times. So Im guessing the gear ratio is 3.73? So now Im wondering why truck is at 2k RPMs and only doing like 55mph? could the overly wide tires cause this? they are 33x15.50s. any suggestions?
 
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Old Feb 9, 2010 | 09:57 AM
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Your speedo is off, with those size tires and 3.73s at 2000 rpms you should be at 70mph, get speedo checked or corrected
 
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Old Feb 9, 2010 | 10:01 AM
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Are you in OD? I have 4:10 gears and 2000 rpm I'm doing 62 mph. Find someone with a GPS and see how your speedo is doing.
 
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Old Feb 9, 2010 | 10:36 AM
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Give me a call Lewis and we can hook it up to AE and try and get your speedo right. Still have my number?
 
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Old Feb 9, 2010 | 10:48 AM
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Give me a call Lewis and we can hook it up to AE and try and get your speedo right. Still have my number?
Naw, I dont have it, Pm me or ill PM you, i just found my tag like 10min ago, I have 3.73 gears. it reads 28 June 2002 4:02 3.73
 
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Old Feb 9, 2010 | 10:49 AM
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Good job Darrell. I know you can take care of this for him.

EDIT: I need to spread them around.
 
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Old Feb 9, 2010 | 10:56 AM
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I got him for you Rick

Crap, can't get you either Jay. . Thanks.
 
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I hope that my tranny is just now warming up enough, today it only reached 100 degrees, maybe thats why the TC is not locking?? Maybe
 
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Before fixing anything I'd make sure the speedometer is reading correctly.

The torque converter should lock with the ATF at 100°F.
 
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 08:27 PM
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Is it hard on the tranny to run it cold?

We always talk about cold engines and warm ups, what about the tranny?
 
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Old Feb 11, 2010 | 08:40 PM
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Before fixing anything I'd make sure the speedometer is reading correctly.

The torque converter should lock with the ATF at 100°F.
Thanks for checking this out for me
 
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ok so I went for I long drive, I got the tranny up to almost 180. I felt the 1-2 2-3 3-4, now I dont know if a TC Lock was in there or what.. I did notice that now at 2k RPMs I was now doing about 64mph
 
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Old Feb 13, 2010 | 09:24 AM
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is there a way to stop the TC from locking? is there a reason why one might want the TC not to lock? is there a tune that could stop the TC from locking? I ask all this because I dont know what previous owner may have done?
 
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