Re: o/t dodge pickup

Posted by Luke S on April 10, 2006 at 08:51:09 from (65.161.251.246):

In Reply to: Re: o/t dodge pickup posted by Mike (WA) on April 10, 2006 at 08:26:47:

There were no "heavy duty" converters or anything specially installed from the factory. They all used the same converters, or in other words, there was no option to get a better converter factory installed, they were all the same. However, Dodge has made improvments as they went. They made huge improvments from the 02' to the 03' model when they droped the tired old 47re and went to the much improved 48re. A big factor with older Dodge/Cummins auto's was the rear gears. 4.10 axle ratio's made a huge improvement in how they pulled, 3.54's were a little tall for heavy pulling. The real early Dodge/Cummins had the old 3-speed 727 auto without a lock-up converter and with no overdrive. They were tough tranny's, but weren't that great for heavy pulling due to the fact that Dodge put 3.07 gears in them to get some more speed out of a 3 speed tranny. If the truck has a 4.10 axle ratio, and you pull mainly in third(direct) instead of 4th(overdrive) it should do pretty good. In the new 3rd gen rams with the 48re trans. you can pull in overdrive with no problems.

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