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On a f250 gasser---put the correct size tires on it. The 11mpg had some miles with the old tires. Put 20 gallons in yesterday (all on the new tires) and got 13mpg. That's with intown and hwy. Never thought 13mpg would make me happy:D
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Yep, little less drag
Drive downhill a lot, hard to do in the delta, but it works in the hills haha. Every MPG helps
You can also take the junk out, even on bigger rigs, and gain some mpgs. I kind of chuckle when I see some of the all hat and no cattle kind of guys with 20' of chain, a couple of batteries, a slam-full tool box, a couple bags of sand and everything else piled in the bed of a truck. Those couple of hundred pounds extra add up.
Biggest load taken out of the truck was big h hahahaha
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I bet it only got 8 mpg with BigH in it....maybe less
Less when he stuck his head out the window..
Went to school with Mark Martin the race car driver.He says the right tire pressure makes a lot of difference too.More than you would think and keeping them rotated and balanced!!!!
I get 14 with mine, 9-10 pulling my boat
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I think the 11mpg was residualQuote:
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Show off:DQuote:
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Yep very trueQuote:
Originally Posted by jackie53
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KDavid, scoot your seat up closer so you can push the accelerator down further and the truck might go faster than 20mph in town :) if you got the seat all the way up, you might wanna opt for some big pillows behind your back lol
Down hill makes a big difference. No hills in mississippi!!!! Just big crappie,Turkey and Big Bucks!!!!
I put larger tires on mine a few months ago. Dropped my mileage around 3 mpg. Maybe a little less, since the speedometer is off now. Still get 16-19 on highway, and around 14 pulling the boat.
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We got hills in 'sippi, you just ain't been to the right places yet.Quote:
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Went Turkey hunting in sippi.The guy I went with said it was flat no problem carring a thunder chicken out.Where did those hills come from.!!!Thought I never would get that thunder chicken too the truck!!!!Lots of thunder chicken in sippi looking for lonely hens!!!!Next time I will take the BAD BOY!!!!
'Sippi is unique as it has several different terrains. Basically, if you are west of I-55 you are in flatland delta, anything east is red clay hill country until you get to the Ten-Tom river basin, where it has slightly rolling hills with dark rich soil. Then as you get south "below Hattiesburg" the land gets sandy, flat and coastal.
U been watching me:D. I got that seat so far up nobody else can get in lolQuote:
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I think he just wears them Elton John shoesQuote:
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Your milage gets all whacked up on these newer trucks when you change tires for 2 reasons,#1 it changes the gear ratio with taller tires making it a taller gear. #2 and main reason is everything is computer controlled and based on speed reading related to engine RPM. Taller tires changes sped reading so computer is trying to regulate fuel and air based on those 2 readings plus it affects the shift points on your automatic transmission which affects milage. If your going to change tires to very much bigger tire need to go to dealer and have them change the revs per mile setting in computer. The computer can't figure that out on it's own. Or buy a programer and use it to set everything. Then you can reset if you change tires hunting season and summer.
I have a 08 f-150 supercrew 4x4 with 5.4 V8 Triton, with P275/45 R 22'' tires and it gets 16.3 MPG.
Those would be handy---that way I could keep the seat back far enough for a passenger:) I'd go with Sapphire flake gel coat instead of shamrock green--to match the boatQuote:
Originally Posted by NeonMoon
When Big told me that when you felt the miss to just give it more gas and it would go away--I kinda knew what the problem was after I drove it a couple times after. Got the tires and it went away as I suspected. The problem wasn't a miss in the engine--but the tranny at a certain grade/load was searching for a gear. New tires problem solved. Another part was the exhaust which helped a good bit as well. This was due to not enough back pressure because the old muffler was rusted out on the inside. Even some "shops" don't realize this. Had one in southaven cut the mufflers off and ran straight pipe from cat to rear bumper on a full size Bronco I had--needless to say I had to do alot of engine tuning after the fact. although it was a 91 bronco-it was fuel injected and had alot of sensors and vacuum relays that made it run like crappie-until i tuned.Quote:
Originally Posted by cray