Re: Re: CJ7 3spds?
 

5th gear is even pretty useless on a 3.07 ratio with 29s on a stock set up.
If you bothered to read Mike's posts instead of ranting you will note that
he doesn't do rock crawling - so for him his set up works. Autoboxes do
great with less than 5 gears.

Dave Milne, Scotland

"SnoMan" <admin@snoman.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:46:48 -0400, Mike Romain <romainm@sympatico.ca>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >I have never heard of any clutch failures in CJ's from 'anyone' who
> >knows how to drive a standard tranny in a Jeep. When you off road you
> >have your low range which goes nicely with the 3 speed.
> You are playing with fire taking this guys advise on tire size and
> gear ratios. He think that his 3.31's are a great with oversized tires
> and he see no problem with hving 5th gear kinda usless