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Mar 5, 2010 | 05:47 PM

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jiar577

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Originally Posted by heavy chevy boy

ahh stop being a puckin fussy, 4:10's atleast. imo id go a little lower.

+1

The guy's rocking 32" tires

Mar 5, 2010 | 06:41 PM

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Those 4.10s will kill your highway gas mileage, I'll just state that now. I lost 4-5 mpg going from 3.42s to 4.10s.

On what size tire? My tires are about 32" tall. There's no way I'd drop 5 mpg. He'll in my last truck running 33's I gained mileage going to 4.10's

Mar 5, 2010 | 06:43 PM

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31" tires.

Mar 5, 2010 | 06:51 PM

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The biggest difference in MPG's I've seen was when I put a TCI stall in. It took me from the 17mpg I have always gotten down to 14-15.
Put the Circle D stall in and I"m back to 17again.
Gears never hurt my mpgs to a point I noticed.

Mar 5, 2010 | 11:33 PM

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On what size tire? My tires are about 32" tall. There's no way I'd drop 5 mpg. He'll in my last truck running 33's I gained mileage going to 4.10's

Exactly, I gained some mileage on the city going from 3.42 to 4.11 & stock tires. Lost a bit in the highway but it ended being even when you consider mixed conditions. It's a no brainer IMO, same mileage with performance gains that you can truly feel.

In fact I wish I went with 4.30