howard reduction box reversal

[loufordson]

Hi all,
Has anyone heard of howard boxes being used and modified to make the major faster as opposed to slower?
I do quite a lot of road runs and would love it if my fordson wasn't screaming all the time!
I have two howard reduction boxes that I wouild like to modified to make a box that increases speed slightly.
One of them is 2_1 and the others a 4_1 ratio. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of this being done before and if it's possible?
Many thanks in advance

[woodcutter]

I've looked into this myself for the same reason, but I think at the time we worked out if you reversed the gears it would be way too high gearing might even be hard to take off, I think the simplest way is to run slightly taller tyres it makes a big difference, but if you do go through with it and it works show us some photos as I have a reduction box just sat here, cheers Kev

[brockwood]

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[loufordson]

Brickworks that sounds quite interesting do you have any photos at all?
Woodcutter yes that's right 2-1 would be just right I've just got to figure out how to change the gears round As its not quite as simple as reversing then unfortunately! But if I manage I will share the photos !
May need to get some gears machined up though