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Jul 28, 2004 | 04:16 PM

Manual5.0/96

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Well its been a while since is been online or even posted but I just drove 1200 plus miles with my 96 and averaged 22 miles to the gallon. I broke down outside of Iowa City Iowa and I gotta to give a shout out to the parts guys at Carousel Ford. They couldn't get parts till the next week but they called around until they found me the parts I needed from another source. So now I'm home based in the midwest. The mountains are calling

Jul 28, 2004 | 04:22 PM

snowmobilerfreak

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22 mpg with your 5.0....................WOW!!!!

It always feels good to be back home, shoot I wish I could be back in the U.S. I miss home badly.

Jul 28, 2004 | 09:24 PM

Blue'87GT

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From: Hanscom AFB, MA

How the hell did you average that? I averaged about 15 mpg on my road trip from KS to MA without using the A/C most of the way.

Jul 28, 2004 | 10:38 PM

ChargerFan

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I think the only way I could get that kind of mileage is if I were being towed.

Jul 28, 2004 | 10:51 PM

Manual5.0/96

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I kept it in over drive for 250 miles at a time. Stayed in the draft of semis and luckly it rained half way thru Nebraska to keep things cooled off. Of course not trying to sound like the motorcraft reminder but I had new tires with proper pressure,an oil change and a tune up with new wires before I started out. Having both the tension pulley and the idler pulley melting in Iowa should tell ya that we didn't stop for much.

Jul 29, 2004 | 10:35 AM

Kemicalburns

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What size tires are you running?

Jul 29, 2004 | 01:13 PM

dhepler

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That was my question. I was getting almost 17 with my 91 5.0 5 spd keeping it under 2500 rpm. This was with 31 10.50s . I went to 32x 11.50 and it went way out of sight. Sounds like he may be running 4 of those space saving spares, or he has an exception to the rule in Bronco's