up and down hills has nothing to do with OD, if it's much of a hill you'll be downshifting or lugging the poor thing .... I'd say go with the ratio you already have and move on to other improvements if you use it regular at highway speeds - 2500 rpm for a good 261 shouldn't be a problem but 65mph with 55 year old steering and braking technology could easily be, not to mention the stress on wheel/axle bearings, these trucks weren't designed with modern freeways in mind

Bill


Moved over to the Passing Lane

"When we tug a single thing in nature, we find it attached to the rest of the world" ~ John Muir
"When we tug a single thing on an old truck, we find it falls off" ~ me
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