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Originally Posted by blackedoutharley
My question is: "other than the possible abuse to the clutch when taking off from a standing start are you otherwise happy with the performance of the truck with the current gear/tire set up?"
If so, have you considered going to a heavier flywheel (or more accurately; what flywheel do you currently have?)?
p.s. I can't say enough how much I like your truck and specifically the fact that you put a .... a truck tire on .......... (GASP!) a truck!
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Yeah, a truck tire on a truck, I guess I am just insane...
Never even thought about the heavier flywheel idea. I agree that for drag racing it would help launching the the truck off the line, but then again I don't know that a heavier flywheel would help to minimize clutch wear on a daily driver. And I am thinking that the heavier flywheel will also hurt mpg when driving around town too. But I have no experience of comparison, heavier vs. stock.
I think it has a stock flywheel at this point. Any first hand advise in regards to a downside to the heavier flywheel?
As for the current performance, when I bought the truck it had 31x10.5-15's on the rear. I was happy with the performance. Now that I have the 33x12.5-15's I have not driven it except in our driveway 'cause I have the bed off of it and due to grafting in a '67 Camaro dash the gauges are not hooked up yet.
I am holding off on the gear change until I get the truck back on the highway, next spring
? But I can tell from driving it in our driveway that the clutch needs to be slipped a bit than before to get it moving.