Higher 6th Gear??
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Higher 6th Gear??
Ok, took about a 7 hour road trip this weekend down to Port Aransas, and I have to say this is the first time I really missed my automatic. And its not because of the shifting, its because running 80mph, I'm at around 2400 rpm. Not only does the sound of my exhaust get annoying running down the road with the rpms that high, but the fuel mileage was crap, and its got to be harder on my truck running that hard. I even slowed down to 70 or so to try to get better mileage, and I'm still running 2100 rpms and its still crap. I calculated about 16mpg for the trip which is terrible compared to the 21+ I could get at 75mph+ in my 05, which could cruise 90mph easy and barely be at 2000rpms. So, my question is, is there a higher 6th gear for these trannys, or do I just have to either deal with it, or change the gears in the rearend. I love my new truck other than this, which makes me really miss my 05 even more than I already did
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Check these guys out. http://www.gearvendors.com/
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Check these guys out. http://www.gearvendors.com/
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Gearvendors is the way tho go. I believe cummins forum has a gearvendor splitter for a g56 in their classified section. Might want to check it out
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Ya I will for sure. Thank you. What about puttn higher gears in the rearend? I heard the new 08s have 3:42s to make up for the lower overdrive. I was thinking about just finding a wrecked 08+ at a junk yard and just swapping out rearends
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2100@70MPH would be 3.73's. I would think your best route would be a gear swap. I am pretty sure Yukon makes 3.42's for it. I believe you will have difficulty finding the 08 axles and if you do they will be crazy expensive. Gears front and rear installed should be under 1k.
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2100@70MPH would be 3.73's. I would think your best route would be a gear swap. I am pretty sure Yukon makes 3.42's for it. I believe you will have difficulty finding the 08 axles and if you do they will be crazy expensive. Gears front and rear installed should be under 1k.
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Thats what I was thinking. That gear vendors thing looks like it works really good, but its so expensive. If I had the money to spare, gear vendors would be the way to go, but I think just changing the gears would be best for now. How much would changing to 3.42s drop my rpms?
G56 ratios are:
1st - 6.29
2nd- 3.48
3rd - 2.10
4th - 1.38
5th - 1.00
6th - 0.79
Rev - 6.29
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This chart should help some.It is shown in 1:1 direct drive(5th gear) for rpm's
http://www.4lo.com/calc/geartable.htm
http://www.4lo.com/calc/geartable.htm