Thanks, those are nice numbers. Especially for down around Calgary with all the hills depending on what road you were on. With that data I should have no problems maintaining 13 with my 4.30's at 110kph.

 

I've an early mileage report and will continue to update with more miles. I've had the truck for 2 days now, picked it up with 17 mile on it and averaging 7.5 mpg. The driving so far has consisted of 30% interstate (i.e. 70mph speed limit), 50% country roads (speed limit between 35-55 mph and stopping every 1-10 miles), and city/town driving (speed limit between 20-35 mph). I have not reset any of the trip meters and the mpg is from the lie-o-meter. I have made two changes to the truck since receiving it- put 275-65-18R Mich m/s2 tires on in place of the A/T tires that came with it (275-70-18R) and I put a bakflip tonneau cover on. I have 3.73 rear and hauled a air compressor for 90 miles today. The mpg on the truck has improved to 13.6 over the first 312 miles. From the miles to empty it appears I can go about 470 miles on a tank.
Best regards,
Russ
ps it's a much better ride than the 2000

 

Your mileage and speedometer be out by about 4% by changing to smaller tires. The new tires are just over 1 inch smaller in diameter. The truck will now be going slower and traveling less miles than it thinks it is. Not a biggie but it will throw it out a bit.

 

Do you have the MTE set on tow. I put mine to tow today and it put the MTE up 100 miles.

 

Thanks Super08, son and I checked on the way home yesterday, a mile by the 1/10 mi, mile markers was between 62-63 seconds at 60 on the speedo on cruise. My swag was 58 mph. The reason behind the smaller tires was to get a little better milage as well as a highway tread.
kmonty2
MTE is not set to tow(afaik). We have been using all the tips I've learned about economical driving for the last 45+ years. I will know more Monday night as I need to drive to Oklahoma to get a Ravelco device installed.
Best regards,
Russ

 

It should give a little more pulling power as well.

 

Thanks for that info, I had not thought of that.
I checked last night the MTE is set on normal versus tow.
I did put some pics up in the picture thread.
Best regards,
Russ

 

I seen them, very nice.

 

Drove to grand isle pulling my boat today. Tried cutting trailer sway off and ran 89 octaine. Miledge went from 7.9' to 9.1. Fuel did not have ethanol on the 9.1 and I'm not sure that 7.9 had it or not.

 

I was planning on doing the same kind of test with mine. I wanted to see if I could notice any improvement in power as well as observing if it would improve mileage. You results are only for a short time, but look very promising for doing a long term test. Thanks.

 

I noticed the lagging in 5th when I thought it should have gone to 6th yesterday. I was pleased when hitting the resume button the speed increase was gentle acceleration rather than slam down a few gears and floor accelerator. Before I drove to Tulsa and back yesterday I filled up, these are the figures from the 4th...
220.1 miles, fill one click after auto stop, 14.282 gal, 15.411007 mpg,, however this is not correcting for the 275/65/18R tires instead of the standard 275/70/18R tires. Someone better with math can correct this. Will fill up later and give those figures, I know on that trip I used 342.3 miles and the fuel gauge shows 1/4 full.
Regards.
Russ

 

If you want it on the nose it only makes a difference of 3.4% so the 15.41 would be 14.9 mpg.

 

Thank you sir, that was with 336.8 miles on the clock.
Regards,
Russ

 

Filled up this afternoon, 375.3 miles used 24.891 gallons of 87 octane gas. Using the correction factor given by Super08 mileage comes to 14.565 mpg. This was over half the mileage was country roads and old us highways--speed limits ranged from 40-65. 10% of the trip was city driving (i.e. Tulsa), the rest I44- speed for me 68-71 mph. Filled up MTE read 499 miles . The current lie-o-meter reads 14.4 mpg. I like to get into the higher gears as soon as possible. I am keeping the revs to between 1000-1500 rpm. Comfortable- much better seats than the 2000, the mirrors are much improved for me also.,
Best regards,
Russ

 

For driving around mixed like that you are getting great mileage.