Regearing the Wagoneer

[XJtheXtremeJeep]

or plug into the gear ratio calculator and save your brain lol

[Danksters]

or plug into the gear ratio calculator and save your brain lol

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[Buffalo Phil]

Shifting from a 2.72 to a 3.31 increases your ring and pinion reduction by 21.69 %. What are your current highway rpm's at 60 mph?

Beats me.

I know this is like helping a retarded child figure out why the square peg won't fit into their nose, but the wagoneer doesn't have a tachometer and the noise between the leaking exhaust and the SuperSwampers pretty much drowns out everything else. The speedometer also doesn't work, so I have no idea how fast I'm going anyway.

That calculator is pretty nice, except I have no fucking Idea what I'm trying to accomplish with it or what numbers to put in to get any sort of desired result.

[XJtheXtremeJeep]

you want an approximate piston speed of i believe 2200 ft per minute idk look it up online that will tell you optimum rpm for good gas mileage, because lower rpm's doesnt necessarily get better mileage. once you find that you get gears to match the tires and get the motor rpm's where you want em. i know with the HO motors you want around 2500 rpm on the highway

[Danksters]

Beats me.

I know this is like helping a retarded child figure out why the square peg won't fit into their nose, but the wagoneer doesn't have a tachometer and the noise between the leaking exhaust and the SuperSwampers pretty much drowns out everything else. The speedometer also doesn't work, so I have no idea how fast I'm going anyway.

That calculator is pretty nice, except I have no fucking Idea what I'm trying to accomplish with it or what numbers to put in to get any sort of desired result.

We need to wire you up a tach.

[Buffalo Phil]

We need to wire you up a tach.

I need to do a lot of things, but I would like to get the axles geared and the last thing I need are more wires in that already clusterfucked array of multicolored strings that transport electricity to things like my Power Seats, which don't help me at all in this matter.

[Danksters]

I need to do a lot of things, but I would like to get the axles geared and the last thing I need are more wires in that already clusterfucked array of multicolored strings that transport electricity to things like my Power Seats, which don't help me at all in this matter.

We should regear those power seats instead...much easier.

[Danksters]

We need some way of getting a ballpark estimate of your rpm's.....

[XJtheXtremeJeep]

umm do the gear calc with the stock gears and stock tire size? or with the stock gears and his tire size now?

[Buffalo Phil]

We should regear those power seats instead...much easier.

I know, I would be able to change positions with unprecedented SPEED!!

OK, I'm been playing with this silly calculator and I did the Tire Size Differential Adjustment and it spat out the number 332.44:1 for my new gear ratio, calculating points being, new tire size is 33, old tire size is 27 and current gear ratio is 272.

[XJtheXtremeJeep]

loooks like stock with the 2.72s wiould be jsut under 2k rpms at 65
and 1800 on the dot with 33's and the stock gears

[Buffalo Phil]

loooks like stock with the 2.72s wiould be jsut under 2k rpms at 65
and 1800 on the dot with 33's and the stock gears

Well that is the thing that totally fucks my mind, this whole overdrive thing. With the 33s on and the stock gears, I get 15 mpg on the highway which is almost absurd in the grand wagoneer, but it is just so fucking excruciatingly painful to get there, so in stop and go traffic, my gas mileage sits at like 7-8.

[XJtheXtremeJeep]

I think higher gears wouldnt damage your mileage much... the two primary accounts for mileage are vehicle weight followed by aerodynamics, these make up like 85% of why mileage sucks.... not the vehicle rpms, you can be spinnin 3k rpms but if your light on the gas its not puttin in as much gas as if your at 2k rpms with the pedal to the flore AKA throttle body wide open

[Buffalo Phil]

I think higher gears wouldnt damage your mileage much... the two primary accounts for mileage are vehicle weight followed by aerodynamics, these make up like 85% of why mileage sucks.... not the vehicle rpms, you can be spinnin 3k rpms but if your light on the gas its not puttin in as much gas as if your at 2k rpms with the pedal to the flore AKA throttle body wide open

The Flore eh? Pedal to the FLORE?

OK, I just had to do that.

Well, it is a good things the Grand Wagoneer weighs 10 metric tons and it has the aerodynamics of a house. So, changing the gear ratio won't change my gallons per mile, then really, why would I be doing it?

Offroad it seems to work just fine, but then again it has only wheeled once at RC. The gearing is so deep in 4lo that I really don't have to use any pedal at all to get over shit.

[XJtheXtremeJeep]

LOL humm guess i had a retarded moment lol but yeah i mean id gear it just so your not like FML on the highway and it has some balls tho