Xmas Gift for the Dodge Owner who has everything
From : Annonymous
Q: if you look very closely at the carnage picture youll notice the cast iron pumpkin is shattered.......... ; this is a link to his companies web site local calgary offroad fabrication...... http//www.evolutionmachine.com/about.shtml and this is the lovely vicky displaying the shocks for claytons new jumping toy..... http//www.whiteknight.ca/base.htm theyre not so tough. heres a couple pics and little vid of clayton jumping his old truck twister and snapping his d60 in half. no... his 4-links were too strong seriously not much less than a rockwell would have had a chance there... the way he landed prevented the suspension from absorbing any of the energy... the axle links and frame mounts for those links were all in perfect alignment. although... pretty short wheelbase truck... lots of lift lots of suspension travel. im thinking someone rotated the axle tubes in the pumpkin for pinion angle... and didnt do that good of a job welding them back in .
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From : jammer
greetings i have a 2002 with the 5.9 cummins. 4x4 quad cab dually automatic about 70k miles. i turn a tad under 2000 at 70mph and it has more then enough power to drag a 10000 pound load at any legal speed and beyond. but i did put a chip in it a big exhaust and a high-flow air cleaner which definitely helped the towing capability but didnt do much for the mpg. i think my axle ratio is 3.43 or thereabouts. i get about 16 - 17mpg empty and i have a heavy foot. just curious what kind of mpg you get with the 4.10. i had a 5sp manual transmission in a 4x4 chevy diesel truck and i couldnt stand going off road with it. too much of a pain in the butt to be shifting all the time especially in the really deep soft stuff. my at seems to behave much better in the nasty stuff. just my $0.02 you can keep the change. clint ==== good. i did get a 5-speed manual transmission the only way to go off-road. it sounds like you have a standard output engine in either ca or one of the ca-emissions states. the ho engine in that year was available with the 6-spd transmission but the overdrive gear 5th on yours 6th on the nv5600 is the same. it also sounds like you have the 4.10 gears in your axles. 3.73 was the standard gearing which would only drop your rpms by about 9% or so ie. turning 2500rpms now would be 2275rpms with the taller gears. its about $1000-$1200 to have the gears swapped out. somewhere. fortunately most of my driving is on 55mph roads and that works fine at 2000rpms. is there other trannys available that are better suited for 70+ mph or other than fuel mileage are they ok runnintg at higher rpms there arent other transmissions - but there are over/under-drive units that can add a second overdrive. two vendors us gear and gear vendors make such units. both units are well over $2000 and require professional installation not the least of which is cutting and re-balancing the driveshafts. i believe only one of them will work with a 4wd unit - not sure which. in the end these engines run right at their governed speed a little over 3000rpm all day in other applications... it wont hurt much of anything but your wallet to run it there the aerodynamics on the 3rd gen trucks are pretty poor and fuel economy will go straight into the toilet up at those speeds. in time you might consider going to a larger tire to compensate for the low gearing. a 33 tall tire will fit without clearance issues and will give you effectively the same final drive ratio as you would have with your current tires and the 3.73 gears dropping your rpms by about 10%. .