reduction gear ratio

[ashgq89]

whats the best gear redution ratio to get i have a gq swb and i dont like going down hill if i can help it so i just want ppls appion

[turps]

I find 1st or 2nd low is fine for me. And not that it makes any difference if going up or down or driving along on the flat. But I find 1coffee and 2 sugars with milk to be a nice coffee.

So what type of 4wding do you want a ratio for?
You need more info.
Are we talking big arse wheels and driving down bloody steep stuff with big rocks. Then maybe think about 85% gears from either of the manufacture.

But if we are talking a tourer with 33" tyres. And just wanting things to go a little slower down hills with out using the breaks then maybe the 43% gears in the transfer will be fine.

So what ya want them for.


Its that or just dont drive up hill. Then you want have to drive down them.

[ashgq89]

i am running 36inch simexs and its deep ruts and everything its in a swb patrol i do marshaling for the events so i get to drive up the comp tracks and down so i do hard 4wding

[turps]

I have never ran any modded ratios. But I think that 85% or 83% would be to low. Might be great for matching wheel speed to winch speed. But to slow to be usfull anywhere else.
43% gears would allow low range to be useful over than winching. But still be a closure match to a hi-mount without excess wheel speed.

[mud_runner_GQ]

I have never ran any modded ratios. But I think that 85% or 83% would be to low. Might be great for matching wheel speed to winch speed. But to slow to be usfull anywhere else.
43% gears would allow low range to be useful over than winching. But still be a closure match to a hi-mount without excess wheel speed.

Pffft!!! sorry but your wrong!
putting my 85% reduction in my shorty was the best mod i have done, better then the air lockers.
if you are driving up and down steep hills actually if you are driving off road at all, 85% isw the way to go. you have so much more control.

[turps]

I have never ran any modded ratios. But I think that 85% or 83% would be to low. Might be great for matching wheel speed to winch speed. But to slow to be usfull anywhere else.
43% gears would allow low range to be useful over than winching. But still be a closure match to a hi-mount without excess wheel speed.

Pffft!!! sorry but your wrong!
putting my 85% reduction in my shorty was the best mod i have done, better then the air lockers.
if you are driving up and down steep hills actually if you are driving off road at all, 85% isw the way to go. you have so much more control.

How fast can you go in low range?

[mud_runner_GQ]

if you are in low range why do you want to go fast? you want max torque delivered to the wheels, you don't want max speed.
but i have and auto and in low range and drive i can do 40 45kph if need be.

[turps]

if you are in low range why do you want to go fast? you want max torque delivered to the wheels, you don't want max speed.
but i have and auto and in low range and drive i can do 40 45kph if need be.

Because its a winch challenge type set up and going slow for five metres and drive fast for 2km. Even 45km/h on the limiter may be to long.
I found when I was driving the same stages for winch comps. That first gear low was only a fraction to fast. But the rest of the low range ratios where fine.