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I have to work in toledo, ohio in morning but hope to make it to the show afterwards. I will be the tired old guy in work clothes driving a red and white tired 1009.
Yes, the 1009 is my daily driver and I drive 100 miles plus per day for work. I am thinking 4.10 gears, that would give me a 2.87 final drive ratio.I normally drive 65mph so my rpms in od would be around 1915 rpms which should give me around 20 mpg.
Found a low miles 700r4 for an 85 k5 th350 locally fairly cheap. I will have trans rebuilt. Do I want to replace output shaft on transmission or the input shaft on the factory transfer case?
Dash pods made by NewSouth performance. Sold by egauges.com 30$,I Google POD-004.and can find.A pillar pod will house oil psi, coolant temperature and trans temperature. Dash pod will hold boost, egt.and fuel psi someday.
73-87chevytrucks.com has 3 gauge a pillar pods for 3 2 1/16 gauges. Also found dash mount pods at egauges.com # POD-004. I have both and they are decent quality. Saves drilling holes in dashboard.
I run my re geared to 4.56 1009 at 65+mph everyday,with 32.8 tires I am spinning 3000 rpm.I have even ran it up to 83 mph once. I use GPS for speedometer and have a tachometer installed. Been doing it for 20k miles, still get 15-16 mpg.
Rotated tires on the 4.56 geared 1009,added 1 1/2 billet Alum. Spacers to rear just because I was tired of people asking me why my front tires were wider than the rears. Looks nice.
Replaced all exterior lights with sylvania zevo leds,wasn't overly impressed until I repainted taillight buckets with krylon chrome paint, now I am impressed.next is dashboard bulbs. I am hooked on leds.
It does help to talk to them. But more importantly is to listen to them, I experienced a slight clunk when starting my 1009 yesterday, and based on my experience it meant starter support bracket loosened up, drove it home crawled under it and fixed the problem.I normally check every oil change...