Driving on the freeway

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Originally Posted by pistonbroke

Good morning, I have driven Seattle to KC , Oklahoma City and back in a 51 F1. The average speed was 70 at 2000 ish rpm in overdrive. Yes you can drive it at speeds but stopping is another thing as you don't have anti-loc power disc like the of the cars out there. Add heavy traffic and now we have a comfort level that I don't care for. One other thing about the early F1s was the farm fan as we called it,(big six blade with a shroud) screams at 2000 rpm so loud you would swear you were at 4000 plus rpm. This too can affect your comfort speed. Bottom line, find your sweet spot and some open road and when your smile goes ear to ear your doing the right speed. Tim

Sounds about right- here in queens, NY the traffic moves slow enough on the parkways that 65 is rarely seen and lots of knuckleheads doing 50 in the passing lanes till you get far enough north or south to get on the backroads. I’m thinking 50-55 is the sweet spot for the truck according to seat of the pants testing. Thanks everyone for the input. That gear ratio calculator will come in real handy too! Sure is fun to drive nonetheless and I’m learning about the sketchy nature of bias ply tires real quick