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Well like most of us there are times when we have to decide something. For me the time is now, i have 3 bowties sitting outside my house right now, i have had all of them for awhile, the point my rig is not a DD anymore, but it could be. The problem, i still get a kick out driving it to and from the trail. One of the other chevys i have is a 02 2500HD and it could pull it but its to much fun and not a far enough trip to justify pulling it yet. The question is i have two ways to get the goal i want, which are still drive it 70 mph and still have a decent crawl ratio. Always more than one way to skin a cat. The first would be to keep the 4.10s in the axles now and convert to a 400/ doubler, depending on the price of the t cases it could cost from 800-2000 bucks, but i would be able to cruise a highway speed and still have a final ratio of 40.67 or if you go with the torque converter idea a 81.34. On the other hand if i regear the axles to 5.13 and keep the 700 thats in there now i would end up with a 42.54 or torque converter way with a 85.08. I recieved a quote from a member here for around 1200 bucks (including a detroit for the 60) to do the regear, then say 500 more for a shop to set up the gears, the prices and outcomes are fairlly close. Before you make a decsion one more thing i am concerned about, to put in the 400 doubler there would be alot of headache finding all the componets, iv have a post for a 400/203 up on three different boards for months with nothing. The posible headache with doing a regear is the 700 will have to be rebuilt within the next year or so im guessing, so let me know your thoughts or personal experence. TIA
Well like most of us there are times when we have to decide something. For me the time is now, i have 3 bowties sitting outside my house right now, i have had all of them for awhile, the point my rig is not a DD anymore, but it could be. The problem, i still get a kick out driving it to and from the trail. One of the other chevys i have is a 02 2500HD and it could pull it but its to much fun and not a far enough trip to justify pulling it yet. The question is i have two ways to get the goal i want, which are still drive it 70 mph and still have a decent crawl ratio. Always more than one way to skin a cat. The first would be to keep the 4.10s in the axles now and convert to a 400/ doubler, depending on the price of the t cases it could cost from 800-2000 bucks, but i would be able to cruise a highway speed and still have a final ratio of 40.67 or if you go with the torque converter idea a 81.34. On the other hand if i regear the axles to 5.13 and keep the 700 thats in there now i would end up with a 42.54 or torque converter way with a 85.08. I recieved a quote from a member here for around 1200 bucks (including a detroit for the 60) to do the regear, then say 500 more for a shop to set up the gears, the prices and outcomes are fairlly close. Before you make a decsion one more thing i am concerned about, to put in the 400 doubler there would be alot of headache finding all the componets, iv have a post for a 400/203 up on three different boards for months with nothing. The posible headache with doing a regear is the 700 will have to be rebuilt within the next year or so im guessing, so let me know your thoughts or personal experence. TIA
