Sad Story On a Gear Vendors OD

cojohnso said

How is Passon Performance accomplishing with their A855 5 speed with .70 5th gear? Ideally I would think you still want to gear 1/4 for 1:1 final gear. And the OD gear is just for that. To knock RPM down for extended use. OD gear was typically weaker. (But I'm sure that has changed with modern trans builds) But it used to be one would never pull a heavy load in high power demand (Let's say up a even slight incline) using an OD gear? Good way to smash your tranny.

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I’d go to his web site for information on his 5spd OD trans. I can tell you this about it though, it is not set up (the overdrive) like the Chrysler band aid move.
As far as any towing is concerned, I wouldn’t worry about it because it is a manual and if you needed the extra torque on the road, you would leave it in 4th gear. Since you understand that lugging an engine is bad, the trans is a manual you select the gear in and get the idea of engine rpm and gear selection for best advantage, I don’t understand the worry.