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Old 03-16-2015, 08:55 PM
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You can always go to lower gears. I had 2 trucks with the 4.6 and 3.55 gears, a 98 and an 05. In retrospect, I wish I had changed to 4.10's. That would have helped tremendously, and I don't think it would have hurt the mpg's much.
Next term in my welding class im making a homemade lift kit and im planning on lowering gears to 4.11 or 4.30s
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Gears are going to be very expensive unless you do them yourself which I've heard is not a beginner job and is quite difficult I've heard if you've never done it before.
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Originally Posted by austinauttelet
Next term in my welding class im making a homemade lift kit and im planning on lowering gears to 4.11 or 4.30s
Bad idea!!!!! If you have no idea how the suspension geometry works you are probably going to kill yourself or someone else with that thing on the road there are threads about homemade lifts on here
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Bad idea!!!!! If you have no idea how the suspension geometry works you are probably going to kill yourself or someone else with that thing on the road there are threads about homemade lifts on here
I have only seen threads about torsion keys and blocks nothing involving diff drops or anything like that
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Originally Posted by austinauttelet
Next term in my welding class im making a homemade lift kit and im planning on lowering gears to 4.11 or 4.30s
[MENTION=22058]A7X[/MENTION] or [MENTION=85203]Triton-SAS[/MENTION] I know we pulled you into Jack trans thread to build an SAS and while this isnt an SAS thread I feel sharing your knowledge may keep this kid from killing himself or others....

Austinauttelet - if these guys chime in please take their advice.... Seriously they know what the heck they are talking about
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Originally Posted by austinauttelet
I have only seen threads about torsion keys and blocks nothing involving diff drops or anything like that
There's a couple ones from a sad swap an I believe someone has attempted the diff drop



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