We took the subaru to the mountains. 2.2 litre engine, 4 cylinder. Did way way WAY better than the truck, and it has an auto tranny.

There HAS to be something wrong with the truck other than improper gear ratios. THe tires are still a good size for the stock gears.

 

Your Subaru is light and has more power to the wheels than your pickup.

I am in Greeley and can tune and re-gear the truck if you want. A header and 2.25-" exhaust will do wonders as well.

 

Yeah, I noticed. I was going to go to you for some front bumpers. Didn't know you re-geared as well.

 

I feel your pain, Dave. Ran up Rist canyon to Old Flowers and had to drop all the way to first once. Of course, tune sucks and 31x10.50s.
Scotty, I might be coming your way sometime soon if I can ever get my BMW sold.

 

Also, forgot to mention that the subaru weighs in at about 2200 lbs, so it's almost what the truck is at.

Subarus are pretty nice, especially the ej22 engine.

I just feel cheated. That a smaller engine gets better performance up hills and steep climbs.

Rist canyon wasnt too hard on my truck. It really has issues with the Horsetooth lake roads.

 

sounds like its time to do a subaru swap into the pickup!

 

Well I can make it up those hills no problem in third so i dunno dude. maybe you need a rebuild

 

Dude its a 22re not a V8, my 89 weighs 3400 at the scales with me and my gear in it. Quite a bit of weight for a 100 hp mill trying to turn 31's with stock gears, it will be slow.

 

I know, but the fact is I'm comparing it to another smaller 4 cylinder that was doing so much better than my 22re. (I've also driven V8 engines from a previous truck and it would kick into a low gear and do just as well as a 22re.)

I think it's time for a rebuild. Last compression test was good 5000 miles ago, but who knows. Something could have happened.

 

Its got 1300lbs less then your truck and its got tiny tires and it benifits from not having a driveline thats a mile long and it probibly has more power. Yeah its gonna be faster...

Gear your differentials down to match your tires. Theres nothing wrong with your motor, its a 110 crank horsepower motor. Give that 10+ years of use and throw big tires on it, its gonna be slow.

Just do what we said. Gear the diffs. 4.56 or 4.88's Both are readily available from junk trucks. The 4.56's are in most manual trucks with a factory big tire package, the same for automatics (92-95 3vze only) for 4.88's.