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Old 08-10-2009, 04:18 PM   #22 (permalink)
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KRAZYKABOOM i am running 2200 rpm. If you look at the torque curve for the 6.0 you will see thats where its power is. Also with rpm's your egt's will stay in check. The torqshift is a good tranny but its 5th gear i believe is a 1 to 1 ratio which it totally drops the truck out of its power curve.Although a chip will help there is no substitute for the rpm's you need,believe me i pull in the mountains all the time.I was having the same problem as your talking about.I PAID 1700.00 with gears here in montana i used yukon gears been in for 2 years now no problems.
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5th gear in the TorqShift is 0.71 to 1.
How do you like your 4.88 gearing? Are you towing alot? What are you running on the interstate for RPMs?
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