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4x4 and towing


Will

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You'll go about 2.5x slower in each gear. So if you like to go 60 in 5th, at that same rpm in low-5th you'll go 24mph. I think ~35 would be your top redline-limited speed.

The gear spacing is the important thing while towing and it doesn't change in low-transfer. Downshifting into the best gear is the right thing to do--keeping the engine at around 3,000+ on hills so it will make enough power to climb them.

To add ratios for a more exact match between engine and load you need a gear splitter--an auxillary tranny with a narrow gear that "fits" in between the spacing of your current gear box. A Gear Vendors, for instance, has a .8 ratio. Your top 3 gears now are .79--1.00--1.50. With a splitter they would be .79--.80--1.00--1.20--1.50. 4th-over would be useless, but that 1.2 3rd-over might be nice if your engine were running out of ass in 4th and you didn't want to wait for it to slow down enough to use 3rd.
 


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I wasn't emplying that he rely on the e-brake, but that is just one other benefit to being in 4WD. I know in the winter my B2 front brakes lock up just by talking about snow... So when it actually snows a lot of times I pop it into 4WD when coming to a stop so I don't skid out of control.
Thats funny this past winter after sitting for 20 minutes in the snow I had to put mine in 4 wheel drive just to break my rear brakes free. They froze. I couldnt move out of the driveway only one wheel was spinning and thought I parked on ice. SO i put it in 4 wheel and my truck went down the road at a 45*angle because hte back wheel was locked up. After about 200 ft of revers it broke loose.:icon_twisted:
 

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It has happened to me. I think water condenses and freezes between the shoe and drum and glues them together.
 

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