This weekend my dad and I worked on the rear end of my truck and we need to know the gear ratio of it so that we could get a front end that matched. The reason a front end has to match up with the rear end is because if the gears are different sizes then the drive trains are going to be spinning at different speeds and that will end up breaking them or the transmission.
For the type of truck that I have there is a couple of different gear ratios that you can have, the way that you can find this out is by jacking up the rear or the front of the truck and spinning the tire. While spinning the tire you need to have marks on the drive train. So whenever you you spin the wheel you will count how many times the yoke spins for example if the yoke is just over 4.0 then your gear ratio would most likely be 4.10
Even though this blog is just about a Chevrolet truck it can be used universally on most vehicles that were built before 1999. The reason for this is because most vehicles now a days are more high tech and most likely still have the ratio on the title.
When ever people think of working on their on cars they often think that it will be too difficult or they don't really want to invest the time into learning how to do it but after reading this article I hope that it helps your if you ever need help with thid type of project.
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Very good post although when you put "For the type of truck that I have there is a couple of different gear ratios that you can have, the way that you can find this out is by jacking up the rear or the front of the truck and spinning the tire." you combined 2 sentences together with a comma. Make sure they are 2 separate sentences. Overall though it was good but a little short. I would like to know more about this topic. Also, not everyone knows as much as you do about vehicles so explain what something is and don't assume the reader automatically knows what it is.
ReplyDeleteThank you i will definitely try to make these changes on my next blog and i will try to make it easier for people to understand what i am talking about
ReplyDeleteI agree with Beth. Some of the jargon you used could be simplified or defined for readers who aren't as good with machines as you are. I'd also include a diagram to show specifically what you mean.
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