{"id":4625,"date":"2018-01-23T09:30:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T16:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2018-01-22T19:50:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T02:50:30","slug":"differentialgearratios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/23\/differentialgearratios\/","title":{"rendered":"Differential Gear Ratios: How to Pick the Best for Your Off-Road Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When installing oversize tires on your vehicle, you&#8217;ll notice that you&#8217;ll lose low-end power when towing, taking off from a stop or even on the trail. To regain this power, you&#8217;ll need to re-gear your differentials. The formula to figure out ideal gear ratio is stock tire size divided by the stock gear ratio.<\/p>\n<p>This should be equal to your new tire size divided by your new gear ratio. However, this doesn&#8217;t account for extra rotating mass of the tire, just the dimensions.<\/p>\n<p>Going strictly by this formula works well for street driven trucks without heavy aftermarket accessories. If you&#8217;re looking to get more torque for carrying heavy loads, towing, or if you spend a lot of time on the trail, you&#8217;ll want to pick a ratio that is deeper (numerically higher) by one or two available ratios than what the formula suggests. This typically ends up being between 5% and 15% deeper.<\/p>\n<p>We have put together a chart to make things a little easier: <a href=\"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/nissan-gearing-chart.html\">https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/nissan-gearing-chart.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you have your gear ratio calculated, you can get your Nissan truck or SUV gears on order at <a href=\"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\">https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When installing oversize tires on your vehicle, you&#8217;ll notice that you&#8217;ll lose low-end power when towing, taking off from a stop or even on the trail. To regain this power, you&#8217;ll need to re-gear your differentials. The formula to figure out ideal gear ratio is stock tire size divided by the stock gear ratio. This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/23\/differentialgearratios\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Differential Gear Ratios: How to Pick the Best for Your Off-Road Vehicle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":4626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197,530,7],"tags":[543,26,80],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-differential-gears","category-gears-2","category-technical","tag-differential-gears","tag-off-road","tag-rugged-rocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4629,"href":"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/4629"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruggedrocksoffroad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}