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hello all, thanks for all your help - i'm learning more and more each day!

I would like to make my '51 1-ton FB more of a "driver" and not so much a work truck and wanted to know where to start?

I'm assuming I'll have to change the gear-ratio in the rear end but don't know where to begin and how to even tell what the current ratio is.

Any help on this would be most appreciated!