I believe your numbers, but these guys claiming high teens or 20's just don't seem likely with a 460. Your 3.55's and with OD give you pretty decent numbers. I am considering an Gear Vender's overdrive to improve my numbers because I've pretty much maxed out the cheap and easy stuff (headers aren't that cheap or easy to me). My 4.10's will pull anything over the mountains, they just won't pass the gas station and twin 19 gallon tank suck, just not quite as bad as the twin 18 gallon saddle tanks and the 20 gallon main tank on my '68 F250, but at least it would get 13 mpg empty and 8.5 to 10 with the camper and race boat in tow, of course that 390 was a piece of mpg art work compared to a 460.

 

I Can't Drive...........55! --Sammy Haggar

It really is pretty hard to drive 55 or even 60. I cant imagine the speed limit being 55 now! Luckily, it changed to 65 just before my 16th birthday (1994).

 

Being retired and the income is a little tighter than before, I found that the few minutes or even the hour it cost to slow down and save dollars (who the hell cares about lives) is well worth it. Besides it is more relaxing at the more sedate rate of 55. Oh yeah, you are so young

 

I may not be retired, but I ain't exactly young either. But I can't drive 55 either, don't know what it is about that speed but it will put me to sleep faster than ambien.

 

How many miles are you going to put on the truck in a year?

 

Yeah and it can be just about as addictive too. Now that I've gotten used to it and we plan for that speed, it just seems normal to be in the right lane traveling with everyone else passing you. I have a buddy with a Dodge V-10 and he always complained about the mileage (two quads on a rack on the truck bed and a 25 foot RV trailer behind him and 4.10 gears) as he roared down the road at 65-70 mph. He tried slowing down and he hasn't gone fast since, but he's old and retire too (you can read that as limited income too).

 

Don't drive it. Park it and take a 4 cyl 5 spd Ranger to work. Use the 460 for carrying a camper around or towing a RV trailer

 

Probably in the neighborhood of 20K.

 

I don't drive it much around home, it's one of five vehicle I own. Unfortunately my Ranger has the 4.0 liter motor so the best we do there is about 24 mpg unloaded and 17-18 towing the dual axle quad trailer, but the camper just won't fit. But we put the 20K on the F250 playing, that's why we have it. Week long quad trips to eastern Oregon or Washington, sometime over into Idaho, all with the camper (all 13+ feet and 3300 pounds empty over 4500 loaded) and the quad trailer with 2 to 5 quads on it.

 

I have a 94 longbed supercab 4x4 E4OD, 4.10 460. I am not careful how I drive but in general I get between 10 and 11mpg with mixed street and freeway driving. When I tow I usually get around 8-9mpg.

I have once in a great while gotten around 12mpg, gravity must have changed that day and when I tow in hills(Grapevine area So Cal) I get around 5-6mpg. I think if you go much past 70mph it does hurt the mileage.


Your gears, truck style etc will affect things a lot. I am not really convinced this model changes mpg depending on how you drive, unless you have your foot in it all the time. In otherwords, my experience is that driving style on this particular model, engine etc is that it doesn't matter much how you drive.

Good Luck,

Jim Henderson

 

There you go, the EFI does a better job of fuel management than the carb can as long as the driver does his part.

 

My '89 in my sig gets 10 worst, and 14 best.


Only filled it up x2.....I've had the truck for almost a year and I only put a little over 500 miles on it, other than that, its just chillin out in the barn waiting for a flatbed.

 

'95 460 E4OD F350 4x4 CrewCab gets 11mpg noload on the highway at 70mph.

7-9mpg depending on hills if towing a 24' boat or a loaded flatbed.

We want the truck, we ain't getting good gas mileage

 

What rear gear are you pulling?


Whidbey Isle? Now that's a good one. I've heard it call allot of things, but that's the first time for "Isle". I kinda think of an isle as a paradise, and nowhere on Whidbey falls in that category.

 

A 4.10 LS, been pretty happy with it.

This is my own little 8 acres of paradise...granted i liked the weather better on Hawaii, Guam and Saipan -- except for their swampy humid July and August.

Not bad here for a hell hole, just us dawgs


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