Posted by george md on February 16, 2008 at 19:11:25 from (12.177.53.179):
In Reply to: Re: O/T ford diesel posted by jdemaris on February 16, 2008 at 14:26:31:
Jd, You are absolutely correct that one with a 5.44 axle would be terrible to drive, but that is what ford put in the 89 450 series . It had spicer 80 series rear and there are no ratios below 5.44 untill you get down to the low 3.--. I rebuilt the 7.3 for one of my customers and drove it quite a bit,it was miserable to drive. It was geared too slow in high and that trans is way too fast in low gear even with the low rear .
The trucks with 4 speed or auto trans and 3.55 really drove nice . Those with 4.10 had hard time maintaining speed on a hill, had to lug down too far for the next shift to not run up against the governor.(Those had the auto trans )
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