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Old May 31, 2011 | 09:45 PM
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Good, glad you made a good decision and my input wasn't needed at all haha. I just find a lot of people go hey I want 4.56s cause someone told me they're good, but they drive 30 miles on the highway to work every day and have stock tires or don't think about the fact that changing the front gears is way worse than the rear.
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Old May 31, 2011 | 09:59 PM
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i did plenty of research before i made my decision but thanks for your input
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Old May 31, 2011 | 10:08 PM
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the only thing is i plan to keep stock tires for awhile so would u still recommend 4.10 or 3.73
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Old May 31, 2011 | 10:31 PM
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It wont really matter if you're not on the highway. Bigger tires reduces the effect of the gearing in the rear. So since I have factory 3.55s and upped my tires to 33"s they'll act more like 3.31s or something. The only place the lower gears will hurt performance is at high speeds because the engine has to work harder so your stock tires of 4.10s will be fine. Even on the highway it wont be that bad, probably 2-300 more RPMs than with your stock gears. There's tons of mustangs and camaros out there running around with their small tires and 4.10s plus when/if you do ever get bigger tires your truck won't bog like mine would have with 35" tires. With the 33" tires it's not too bad.
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