I have driven the Tracker(5spd) for 3 days and at 65mph it turns 3600 rpm and for my highway driving that is to many rpms. You that have installed 30-31" tires how much power have you lost down low or high. I would like to change tires without a gear change to lower my cruising rpms. If you have changed tires or gears or both does the Tracker use a speedometer cable or is it digial. Can you get the speedometer gears for different calibrations or do I need to read a speedometer that is way off. Thanks

They do use a cable, so your speedo will be off a little.
Zig

The truckes are geared to run this way.  You can run your Tracker all day at 4,000 rpm and won't hurt it as long as you keep the oil changed.

When I bought mine it had 130,000 miles on it and it was only a couple years old.  It was all highway miles.

Now it has 155,000 and those last 25,000 are really hard miles.  It's not a daily driver and only sees the road on nice sunney days.  The rest is pushing it hard off roading.

If your looking for bigger tires to lower your RPM's, I wouldn't.  If you want to for off roading, now that's another story.

I ran 235/75R15 (about 28.5" measured with a tape) and I still kept up ok on the highway.  Now I have 32's with 5:83 R&P and can hold 70-75 (4000-4300) all day long on the flats.

5.83s with 32 or 33 inch tires gives a very
accurate speedo reading, stock gears with
235 tires gives a corrected 100% true ground
speed reading, stock tires cause a 2-3 MPH
error in the reading on the speedo showing
faster ground speed than actual.

Adding 235 tires will give you a 100% correct
speedo reading, so get them tires on, and they
don't really sap too much power, so it's a good tradeoff.

I have driven the Tracker(5spd) for 3 days and at 65mph it turns 3600 rpm and for my highway driving that is to many rpms.

i have mine on 6500 RPMs all the time.  the 1.6 in unbeatable.  but i do change my oil like 2 to 3 times a year.  lata stu

Your right, with 32's and the 5.83's my speedo's right on the money!!

I was wondering how accurate my speedo was after the 5.83 but have passed a road side radar or had the privilage of talking with the local police recently

Thanks,
Zig

I think its a case of different cultures, the Japs have smaller revvier engines. Companies like Suzuki and Honda are used to building engines for bikes that run at 8000rpm and above all day loing. Us Brits are used to 1litre to 2 litre engines and 70mph at 4000rpm is pretty much the norm. Over here we drive at 80+ mph all day long (100mph+ if we can get away with it) and I found the stock gearing a little bit too high, it tends to flag a bit on long hills. For me dropping the gearing 8% was perfect, now I'm on 33s its a bit of a dog. Speedos all vary a bit so you just have to check it for yourself try and borrow a GPS and a stopwatch but remember that speedos aren't completely linear so it may be 10% out at one speed and spot on on another.