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Old 06-04-2013, 10:35 PM   #5
tjbindy
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Join Date: May 2013
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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Re: Gas Mileage/ Top End Speed for 72 C20

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Originally Posted by fourspeedwagon View Post
TJ- First, you should crawl under the truck and see what trans it has. If you only detect one shift and it tops out at 65, you may not be engaging 3rd gear. Does it have a tachometer? rpm and mph, along with tire size and we can figure out what the rearend gear ratio is. If it has extraordinarily low gears, then a swap would be the way to go, if it's running around on the interstate in second gear then we can start to chase why.
Note the shape of the trans pan and number of bolts or post a pic of the pan and we can help. Greg
Based on the info from another post. The tranny is a TH350. As for the rear end. . . did not see any markings; I will check again tomorrow. However; with the rear end jacked up.. . both wheels off the ground. 1 rotation of driver side rear wheel resulted in drive shaft rotating 2 revolutions plus about 10 degrees.
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